TORONTO: AN HISTOBICAL SKETCH 



the Nations," of a more peaceful character than that 

 which helped to destroy the Roman empire. This 

 movement has come not to destroy but to fulfil the 

 destiny of Canada as the melting-pot of nations and 

 the solvent of Anglo-Saxondom. At the May Day 1913' 

 meeting of United Workers of Toronto speeches were 

 given in Polish, Bulgarian, Finnish, Yiddish, and 

 Italian, as well as English, advocating education and 

 favouring peace. It is reassuring to know that the 

 dominating proportion of the population of the 

 Dominion, 54 per cent, in 1911, is still of British 

 origin. The English gained 562,000, or 44.5 per 

 cent, from 1901 to 1911, the French 406,000, or 

 24.5 per cent., the Germans 82,000, or 26 per cent. 

 The Irish population increased 62,000 to 1,050,000, 

 and the Scottish 198,000 to 998,000. The only other 

 Europeans making six-figure records in Canada are 

 Austro-Hungarians, 129,000, and Scandinavians, 

 107,000. Both the Indian and Negro records are 

 decreasing. The total population was 5,371,315 in 

 1901, and 7,206,634 in 1911, a gain of 1,835,328, 

 or 34 per cent. 



In this advance Toronto more than held its own. 

 According to the census of 1911 the population was 

 376,240, and the official estimate (June 5th, 1913) 

 is 488,000. Territorially the city extends about ten 

 miles from east to west along the lake front, and by 

 the recent addition of North Toronto its northern and 

 southern limits lie equally far apart. 

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