TORONTO: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 



SOME TORONTO STATISTICS. 



Area of city, 1913, 33.75 square miles. Total park area, 



1912, 1,605 acres; 1913, 1,743 acres. 



Population, 488,000 (estimate of city statistician). 

 Death-rate, 12.8 per 1,000 (estimate of city statistician). 



Number of buildings erected in 1913, 10,217; estimated 

 value, $27,400,000. 



Assessment of city, 1913, $436,000,000; tax-rate, 19% 

 mills. 



Net debt of city, 1913, $33,000,000. Revenue, 1912, 

 $8,500,000. 



Miles of streets, 1912, 413; 1913, 509. Miles of side- 

 walks, 1912, 561; 1913, 610. Miles of sewers, 1912, 336; 



1913, 360. Miles of water mains, 1912, 434; 1913. 458. 

 Miles of gas mains, 1912, 456; 1913, 473. 



Miles of street railway, 1912, 107; 1913, 114. Total 

 revenue from street railway since 1891 (to 1911), $6,339,000. 

 Revenue from street railway (exclusive of taxes), 1912, 

 $890,000. Passengers carried, 1911, 121,000,000; 1912, 135,- 

 786,000. 



Attendance at Exhibition, 1912, 962,000. 



Hydro-Electric meters in use, 1913, 18,000, with 15,500 

 horse-power. 



Clearing House returns, 1911, $1,852,000,000; 1912, 

 $2,170,000,000. 



Custom House returns, 1911: Imports, $100,000,000; 

 Duty, $17,800,000. 1912: Imports, $120,000,000; Duty, 

 $20,261,000. 



Total number of police, 588. 



Total number of firemen, 336. Total loss on fires, 1912, 

 $1,113,000. 



Number of tavern licenses limited to 110; fee, $1,600; 

 shop licenses, 50; fee, $1,600. 



Number of volumes in city libraries, 180,000; in Univer- 

 sity and Law libraries, 250,000. 



Number of automobiles in Ontario (Provincial fee, $4), 

 21,500. 



Number of births, 1912, 11,100; marriages, 6,153; deaths, 

 6,313. 



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