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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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Technical High Schooland seven High Schools. The attendance of pupils at thesesecondary schools is over 4.000. In addition there is UpperCanada College, a boys residential school, which covers first-year University work, and which is attended by over 200pupils, and St. Andrews College, also for boys. There are altogether over 56,000 pupils in the city Pub-lic Schools. School attendance up to the age of 12 yearsis compulsory, except by a special permit from the PublicSchool Inspector. Consequently there are no illiteratesamong the native-born citizens of Toronto. There are 920teachers on the Public School staff, 171 Kindergartners,152 High School teachers, and 123 Separate School teachers.The average daily attendance at the Public Schools is37,901 ; at the High Schools, 4,9S.j, at the Separate 25 Schools, 4,667. The value of school property is over $5,457,000. The estimates of expenditures for the schools for 1912 total .$2,105,991. A Provincial Normal School isalso located in Toronto.
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AET BUILDING. Art.—In the domain of art Toronto has long beenrecognized as the centre whence radiates the best Canadacan show in painting, sculpture and architectural design-ing. The Ontario Society of Artists have a gallery oftheir own, and their annual exhibition gives an epitomeof the progress and status of art in all Canada. A largeProvincial Art Gallery is located in the Educational De-partment buildings. On the third floor of the ReferenceLibrary, on the corner of College and St. George Streets, issituated the Art Museum, where throughout the year thereare exhibitions of the various art associations of the city.These are under the control of the Art Museum Associa-tion, which has recently come into possession of TheGrange, a fine old colonial mansion in a beautiful privatepark, through the will of the late Goldwin Smith. On thisproperty it is proposed to build an Art Gallery whichwill be a credit to the city. The Central Ontario Schoolof Art, the Womens Art Association, the To

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