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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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ely enters Lake Ontario upon her swift passage of thirtymiles across its beautiful waters. This sail affords one ofthe most refreshing features of the trip to Toronto, andas the opposite shore gradually rises upon the horizon thepassengers pleasure in visiting a new country is temperedby regret that the voyage is drawing to a close. On the trip across Ontario the incoming steamers of thesame line will be passed and saluted, and often the white 15 canvassed yachts of the Royal Canadian Yacht Club willbe seen cruising to Niagara-on-the-Lake and othei- ports. Soon the Scarboro Heights, on the north shore, loomup and the towers and spires of Toronto, the Queen City,come into view. On the west end of the Island, on(Gibraltar Point, stands a fine lighthouse with a revolvinglight, built in 1808. Entering the bay through the easterngap, a nearer view of the city can be obtained and alsoof Hanlans Point, which is on the western point ofToronto Island, directly opposite the city across the bay.
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YONGE STREET WHAEF. The steamers land their passengers at Yonge Streetwharf, which is the central street of Toronto, being calledafter Sir George Yonge, Imperial Secretary for War, 1791.One block north from the dock is Front Street, where theToronto Street Railway cars can be taken to all parts ofthe city for one fare, five cents, or 25 tickets for onedollar, 6 for twenty-five cents. Transfers on all lines aregiven freely by the conductors when asked for. A map of the city showing street car lines and an in-dexed street guide will be found in the back of this book. 16 TORONTO Early History.—The site of Toronto was the termiua-tion of an Indian trail which supplied the shortest andmost convenient road between Lake Huron and LakeOntario. The name itself is of Huron origin and means a place of meeting, a term applied to the neighborhoodof Lake Simcoe, which was the northern end of the firststage on the great portage. In course of time the namewas transferred from the neighborhood of La

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