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A DEPARTMENT DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS OF THE HORTICULTURAL 

 SOCIETIES OF ONTARIO, AND OF ALL OTHER BODIES INTERESTED 

 IN THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE SURROUNDINGS OF OUR 

 CANADIAN TOWN AND COUNTRY HOMES. 



THE Canadian League of Civic Art is 

 the name of a new society which 

 was organized under the most 

 favorable auspices, in the Board of Trade 

 Council Chamber, Toronto, on Friday, the 

 14th of February, 1903. A great wave of 

 public interest in public beauty is sweeping 

 over the whole of North America , and has 

 reached us in Ontario. We trust it will 

 give new vigor to all our horticultural so- 

 cieties, women's institutions, farmers' insti- 

 tutes, churches, school boards, literary so- 

 cieties, and all other bodies interested in civic 

 improvement. We shall be pleased to make 

 this journal a means of communication be- 

 tween these various bodies, and thus to dis- 

 tribute as widely as possible all information 

 within our reach upon this important topic. 



The following is a partial list of the gen- 

 tlemen present at the organization meeting, 

 men representing the Society of Architects, 

 the Society of Artists, the Fruit Growers' 

 Association of Ontario, the Ontario Horti- 

 cultural Societies, the Toronto Board of 

 Trade, the Good Roads Association, and 

 many other bodies. 



Among those who were present were: 

 Mayor Urquhart, Toronto; R. Tasker 

 Steele, President Hamilton Civic Improve- 

 ment Association ; A. Alexander, President 

 Hamilton Horticultural Society ; Judge A. B. 



Klein, Walkerton ; John Cape, Hamilton ; 

 Charles O. Dexter, Hamilton; F. B. Green- 

 ing, Hamilton; M. A. James, Bowmanville; 

 Mayor W. E. Smallfield, Renfrew ; James 

 S. Scarflf, Woodstock ; R. W. Rennie, Lon- 

 don ; George C. Creelman, Superintendent 

 of Farmers' Institutes ; D. McClew, Toron- 

 to ; R. McLennan, Toronto ; L. Woolverton, 

 Grimsby ; W. D. A. Ross, Chatham ; Major 

 R. Y. Ellis, Toronto ; T. H. Race, IMitchell ; 

 W. F. W. Fisher, Burlington ; Peleg How- 

 land, Toronto ; J, P. Hynes, Toronto ; John 

 H. Kydd, Bowmanville; William Rickard, 

 M.P.P., Newcastle; G. A. Reid, Toronto; 

 George A. Newell, Toronto; E. G. Rout- 

 zahn, Dayton, O. ; P. W. Hodgetts, St. 

 Catharines ; Allan Cassels, Toronto ; J. F. 

 Scriver, Montreal ; P. J. Carey, Cobourg ; 

 W. H. Bunting, St. Catharines; W. R. 

 Gregg, Toronto ; G. W. Goodman, Perth ; J. 

 D. Hayden, Cobourg; Aid. D. Ewing, Co- 

 bourg; Newton D. Galbraith, Hamilton; 

 Rev. Canon Forneret, Hamilton, and A. W. 

 Campbell, Toronto. 



Mr. George R. Pattullo, Honorary Presi- 

 dent of the Woodstock Horticultural So- 

 ciety, was elected chairman of the meeting, 

 and Major H. J. Snelgrove, of Cobourg, 

 was made secretary. 



The chairman, Mr. G. R. Patullo, pointed 

 out that in Canada we were still a long way 

 behind both in urban and in rural improve- 

 ment, and our country did not present those 



