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Identifier: statementconcern00onta (find matches)
Title: A statement concerning the extent resources, climate and industrial development of the province of Ontario, Canada
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Ontario. Dept. of Crown Lands
Subjects: Industries
Publisher: (Toronto, Cameron, Pr.)
Contributing Library: Queen's University Library, W.D. Jordan Special Collections and Music Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Queen's University - University of Toronto Libraries

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Southern Ontario are locatedon the shores of the lakes and rivers named above. The following briefdescription will give an inidcation of their size and commercial importance.Toronto, the prosperous capital of Ontario and the second cityin Canada, is situated on the north shore of Lake Ontario, andhas a population of about 225,000. It is the principal commercialand distributing point of Central Canada and the seat of the University ofToronto and many other leading educational institutions. Its mercantileimportance is indicated by the extent of the financial transactions of itsbanks, the bank clearings for 1900 amounting to $513,695,401, an increaseof $9,222,554 over the previous year. The value of the exports from Torontoduring the year ending June the 30th, 1900, was $9,506,911, and the valuetor the imports for the same year was $31,787,053. Toronto has numerous and important manufacturing industries, includ-ing extensive iron foundries, railway shops, pork-packing houses, ship (8) L
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to < < s°. ■< COCM THE PROVINCE OF ONTARIO yards, distilleries, carriage, piano, and agricultural implement factories.The city occupies an unrivalled position as a railway centre, the CanadianPacific and Grand Trunk Railway systems with their tributary roads mak-ing it the radius of eight lines to the north, east and west, while in theopen season a large amount of traffic is conducted by the fine lines of steam-ships which ply regularly to Montreal and ihe leading- Lake Ontario ports. The accessibility of all the picturesque region to the north bordering onthe Muskoka Lakes and the Georgian Bay, and the central position ofToronto with regard to other points of interest, result in attracting to it avery large number of tourists every season. It possesses excellent hotelaccommodations, banking and telegraph facilities, and one of the finest andbest-equipped electric street car services on the Continent. Few largecentres of population are so well provided with spacious parks

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