NATURAL HISTORY, TORONTO REGION 



and Applied Science had last year 4,136 students 

 and 432 members on its teaching staff. 



This wonderful advance in the field of higher edu- 

 cation, appealing as it will to the scientific reader, 

 may be taken as typical of the material growth of 

 the city. That growth has been largely the result 

 of the policy of protection brought in under Sir John 

 A. Macdonald in 1878, which gave an immense im- 

 petus to manufacturing in Toronto. In 1881 the 

 population was 82,000, and in 1891 it had grown to 

 181,000. Germany itself could scarcely show more 

 rapid progress. Would that Toronto had followed 

 the German system of extension and town planning! 

 With the wastefulness characteristic of the American 

 continent, an area almost as large as that of Paris 

 was paved and drained. The natural result followed, 

 and during the next ten years the city only grew to 

 208,000, the boom having burst early in the decade. 



With the turn of the century came a change. Sir 

 Wilfrid Laurier's epigram that the twentieth century 

 was to be Canada's seems to have won favour " there 

 where the will and the power are one." A series of 

 events brought Canada into the public eye. The 

 British preference did as much for the increase of 

 British immigration as it did for British trade. At 

 the same time the tide of American immigrants 

 flowed across from the Western States in constantly 

 increasing volume. From the European continent, 

 too, a flood of foreigners entered the Dominion, which 

 has thus become the scene of a new " Wandering of 



