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Title: Illustrated guide to Toronto by way of Niagara Falls : with indexed map of the city, showing street car lines
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Canada Railway News Co
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Publisher: Toronto : Canada Railway News Co.
Contributing Library: Toronto Public Library: Research and Reference Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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es. There is generally a unanimity of spirit amongstthe people, no racial jealousies and strife distract. Toronto as a Manufacturing City.—Assuredly wework while we work. Toronto has developed an extraordin- 20 ary manufacturing trade. Under a moderate protectivetariff capitalists have been able to provide plants of thebest equipment and to turn out products as good as the best.Long ago Canadian goods were expected to be crude andrough, but that time has passed. In shoes, in woollens, incottons, in farm implements, in machinery, in structuralsteel and iron work, in the building of locomotives, engines,ships, musical instruments, in the manufacturing of carpetsand clothing, white wear, caps, neckties, furs, foodstuffs,Canada does well. The goods shown at the Toronto Ex-hibition cannot be excelled. Indeed that quite extraordin-ary annual Fair owes no little part of its triumph to thesuccession of surprises that our Canadian and particularlyour Toronto manufacturers provide the public.
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MANUFACTUKERS BUILDING. Mercantile Advantages.—The City of Toronto standsout prominently as one of the greatest municipalities inNorth America, and one which is likely, during the comingyear, to gather a very large share of the fruits of theanticipated industrial and general increase in the prosperityof the Dominion. There are many substantial reasons forthis assertion. It is the manufacturing and distributingcity of a wealthy and enterprising community, whose coun-try is exceedingly rich in timber, minerals, fisheries, andthe products of the soil, and whose number and commercial 21 strength are rapidly increasing. Three great systems ofrailway spread their main and branch lines over this vastarea, focusing in Toronto, where the lines of rail and watercommunication meet, and from which all the markets ofOntario and the great Canadian West can be most con-veniently reached. It has water communication east andwest to many important centres, to tide water and to morethan one-half the w

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