NATURAL HISTORY, TORONTO REGION 



their fellow-citizens, there is even greater cause for 

 pride in the general diffusion of a comfortable com- 

 petence that is evident in every quarter and along 

 every car line in the city. 



Nowhere is it more in evidence than on Toronto's 

 unique summer resort, " the Island." Years ago 

 Charles Dudley Warner called it our Lido, but both 

 the Lido and the Island have been altered much 

 since then. The former shows by its vast cara- 

 vanserais and monotonous rows of wooden bath- 

 ing-houses that it has become a summer resort 

 for thousands of European and American tourists; 

 the latter has become the holiday home of the multi- 

 tude of citizens whose business or whose tastes keep 

 .them in town during the summer. Families of all 

 degrees of wealth and social standing pass their vaca- 

 tions here, and in consequence there is much greater 

 diversity of character in the residences than on the 

 Lido. There is no tramway, however, as at Venice, 

 but the geologist is sure to be a walker and will find 

 much to interest him in a visit to this silting spit of 

 land which by creating its future harbour determined 

 the site of Toronto. Hanlan's Point, on the west, is 

 the popular resort, with its baseball grounds, its out- 

 door entertainments, its aquatic sports and its air of 

 a perpetual kermesse. A few minutes' walk to the 

 south and we come to the older cottages dating from 

 the eighties, when the " mania for summer-outings " 

 first struck Toronto. Goldoni called it a mania ; to 

 us of the twentieth century it is the highest wisdom. 

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