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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 FOR CIVIC IMPROVEMENT- 

 ITS ORGANIZATION AND AIMS. 



PAPER READ BEFORE THE WOODSTOCK HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY BY THE HONORARY PRESIDENT, 

 MAJOR GEORGE R. PATTULLO, WHO IS ALSO HON. FIELD SECRETARY OF THE LEAGUE, 



THE Canadian League for Civic Im- 

 provement was formed in the ro- 

 tunda of the Board of Trade, To- 

 ronto, in February last. Besides the mayor 

 of Toronto, the meeting included a repre- 

 sentative body of gentlemen, prominent 'n 

 various walks of life from different parts of 

 the Province of Ontario. All seemed im- 

 pressed with the necessity of some such or- 

 ganization, and those who had enjoyed the 

 advantage of seeing what may be done in 

 the way of civic improvement by well di- 

 rected local effort, were most enthusiastic 

 in urging the formation of a league that 

 would cover the entire Dominion. 



OBJECT OF THE LEAGUE. 



The object of the league is to unite and 

 secure the co-operation of all ladies and 

 gentlemen and all organizations that are in- 

 terested in the promotion of out-door art, 

 public beauty, or town, village or rural im- 

 provement. This is a comprehensive pro- 

 gram and affords an opportunity for every 

 person in a community to do something to- 

 ward its accomplishment. 



IN CITIES, TOWNS AND VILI^GES. 



Civic improvement in cities, towns and 

 villages may include better streets, more 

 tree planting, well kept boulevards, more 

 and better kept parks and play grounds, im- 

 provement of public buildings, school 

 houses and churches by more general use of 

 vines, ivy or climbers, more artistic grounds 

 about all of these buildings, and a more 

 general planting of shrubs and flowers 

 therein. The erection of statues, the erec- 

 tion of fountains, public lavatories and clos- 

 ets, public gymnasiums and rest rooms, 

 cemetery improvement, improvement of 

 railway station grounds, planting of trees 

 and flow^ers about factories, the improve- 

 ment of vacant lots, lanes and alleys, a 

 greater attention to public sanitation, a per- 

 fect sewerage system, improved facilities for 

 the disposition of garbage, more artistic 

 public advertising, simplicity in naming 

 streets and numbering houses, fruit and 

 flower exhibitions, cleansing public build- 

 ings and public vehicle;^, a higher class of 

 pictures in our public halls and our various 

 public institutions, improved municipal ar- 



