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The Art Gallery of Toronto
This city is a hub of rail and air transport-
ation, with a harbor adequate to accommodate
the largest vessels plying the Great Lakes
waterways, and although the immediate centre
of the largest and wealthiest consuming
population in Canada, is nevertheless modest
in its claims.
It makes only one really big boast: its Canadian National Exhibition is the
largest annual exposition in the world.
Despite its “bigness’’, its streets teeming with traffic and its humming
industry, Toronto has retained a charming simplicity. It is extremely new
in the old world sense, but its history is that of the growth of Canada from
French colonial times.
Its name comes from "the meeting place” of the Huron Indians where the
French built a post in 1720. Thirty years later its French Governor esta-
blished a small fort and trading post which he called Fort Rouille in honor of
a French Cabinet Minister, but the settlement gradually disappeared until in
1793, General John Graves Simcoe selected the city for the capital of the new
British Province of Upper Canada.
Ever since, Toronto has been distinguished by its high sense of loyalty to
the British Crown, a loyalty strengthened by a great influx of those who fled
the New England colonies at the time of the American revolution.
For all its close ties to the United Kingdom, Toronto has maintained at the
same time a fiercely independent spirit. It became a city in 1834 and three
years later its first mayor led a bloodless revolution which contributed
importantly to the development of democratic government in all Canada.
All of these influences have produced in Toronto, a cosmopolitan centre of
the North American way of life with its roots in the great British tradition.
It is as modern as a tiled bathroom and as homely as an English fireside.
LAURIE McKECHNIE,
Municipal Reporter, "The Telegram”, Toronto.
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