TORONTO: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 



Canada College hockey team won the junior cham- 1902 

 pionship of Ontario in the last minute of the second 

 xtra ten, or when the Toronto team won the base- 

 ball pennant from Newark in the tenth inning of the 

 last match of the season. 



Clean, manly sport in Toronto owes much to the 

 Young Men's Christian Association. This body 

 .showed its hold on the citizens by collecting over 

 $600,000 in a two weeks' whirlwind campaign in 

 1910. The new main building is on College Street, 

 near Yonge, and deserves the inspection of all who are 

 interested in the training of young men. There are 

 several branches throughout the city and a separate 

 organization for young women, as well as a number of 

 settlements, one of which is under the special charge 

 of the University students. 



The above forms of Christian activity may be 

 called the resultant moraines of the churches for 

 which Toronto is famous. It is the seat of a Roman 

 Catholic archbishop and of an Anglican bishop, and 

 the Canadian centre of the other chief Protestant 

 denominations. One picturesque local society, which 

 would have interested such travellers as Hepworth 

 Dixon or Bayard Taylor, and which we read of in 

 Dr. Scadding's " Toronto of Old," seems not to have 

 survived its founder, David Wilson, of Sharon, after 

 whom the members were called " Davidites," " Wil- 

 sonites," or " Sharonites." Their Temple, built in 

 1825, twenty years before the first Mormon one at 

 Nauvoo, 111., was of quaint construction and curious 

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