ing establishments, with a paid-up capital of 

 $49,387,468 and a reserve of $58,800,000, having 

 their head offices there. 



Extensive Harbor Developments 



The development of the city's harbor with 

 its ten-mile water front at an estimated cost of 

 $25,000,000, is an important project in the course 

 of being carried out at the present time, and 

 includes harbor improvements, industrial dis- 

 tricts, parks and recreation areas. 



Toronto is not only the educational centre 

 of the Province of Ontario, but shares, with a few 

 other points the distinction of leading Canadian 

 educational thought, and through the University 

 of Toronto spreads its learning throughout the 

 Dominion. 



In addition there is McMaster University 

 and numerous colleges, medical, dental, phar- 

 maceutical, musical and clerical, and a host of 

 technical schools and educational establishments 

 of a high-grade proficiency. 



The city is a prominent literary centre with 

 .many publishing houses issuing Canadian litera- 

 ture and magazines of a national character, and 

 in all it can boast of nearly thirty public libraries. 

 It is the hub of Canadian musical evolution, 

 possessing many fine musical organizations and 

 choirs. 



The Canadian National Exhibition 



A permanent exhibition city, each year har- 

 bors the Canadian National Exhibition, an event 

 of first national importance, held annually for 

 forty-two years, representing in its exhibits every 

 line of Canadian endeavor, and during the fort- 

 night it is in progress, attracting spectators 

 aggregating over a million. 



Tourists make Toronto the gateway to the 

 wonderland of the Muskoka Lakes and the 

 Highlands of Ontario. The picturesque valleys 

 and charming lake scenery to which Toronto 

 gives entry, and the mammoth lake at its very 

 door, open the way to all manner of sports and 

 pastimes and give the city a decidedly out-of- 

 doors aspect at all seasons of the year. 



Essentially Canadian, with a romantic history 

 of unwavering loyalty, fostering some of the 

 finest thought of the Dominion, industrially 

 great and in a most favorable location for illimit- 

 able expansion, no one can gainsay the claim of 

 Toronto to the title of "Queen City." 



Immigration of Women 



By Mrs. Robert Knell, Sec.-Treas. Canadian Council of 

 Immigration of Women, Ottawa, Ont. 



Many women in Canada were years ago cognizant 

 of the necessity for co-ordinating the work of various 

 persons and societies engaged in bringing women to 

 Canada for household service. It was not, hoWever, until 

 after the signing of the Armistice, when the question of 

 immigration again confronted the country, that an 

 opportunity presented itself to bring before the Minister 

 of Immigration the opinion of Canadian women o n the 

 whole subject of Women's Immigration. 



One has only to visualize the newcomers, tired, home- 

 sick, nervous, many unaccustomed to even the ordinary 

 vexations of travel, confronting new customs, strange 

 coinage, new laws, perhaps even an unknown language, 

 usually limited as to means, in order to glimpse how help- 

 ful proper organization may be toward setting the immi- 

 grant women who are now flocking to our country, in 

 the way of contentment and self-development, and of 

 usefulness to Canada. 



Canadian Council of Immigration of Women 



After several conferences in 1919, called by the 

 Department of Immigration and attended by represen- 

 tatives of Dominion-wide organizations, and a survey of 

 general conditions throughout Canada, in October of 

 1919 there was created, with the approval of the Minister 

 of Immigration, a national organization, known as the 

 Canadian Council of Immigration of Women for House- 

 hold Service. 



In past years, grants had been made to local hostels 

 and organizations interested in the welfare of the immi- 

 grant houseworkers, and it was believed the Canadian 

 Council of Immigration of Women for Household Service, 

 on account of its representative and national organization, 

 would be able to exercise greater care in co-operation 

 with the Government in offering additional safeguards 

 to handle a situation which had become more difficult 

 owing to post-war conditions. This new organization 

 had for its primary objects: 



Undertaking the supervision of existing hostels 

 for the reception and care of immigrant women for 

 household service. 



Arranging for the establishment, control and 

 supervision of new hostels as need arises. 



The control and administration of such Federal 

 or other financial aid as may be granted. 



Studying the question of immigration of women 

 for household service, and making to the Department 

 of Immigration and Colonization from time to time 

 such recommendations as may be deemed advisable 

 in the general interests of Canada and of the immi- 

 grant. 



The personnel of this council consists of representa- 

 tives of fourteen nationally organized societies, appointed 

 by their societies, and representatives of eight provinces 

 appointed by provincial governments. The societies 

 represented include, besides church and philanthropic, 

 The Great War Veterans, Trades and Labor Congress 

 of Canada, and The Social Service Council of Canada; 

 these are represented on the council by men. 



With the co-operation of provincial governments and 

 local committees of women, hostels, known as "Canadian 

 Women's Hostels," have been established in Vancouver, 

 Calgary, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Montreal, St. John 

 and Halifax. 



Twenty-four hours' free accommodation is given to 

 women coming for household service in the hostel in the 

 province to which they are bound, but any newcomer 

 travelling alone may, for a nominal sum, avail herself of 

 the hostel privileges. Working through the Federal and 

 Provincial Government Employment Bureaux, the super- 

 intendents of hostels endeavor to place the incoming 

 women in homes, and at work for which they are best 

 adapted and where they will have opportunity to develop 

 along lines of useful endeavor. 



Over 5,000 Women Placed 



From December 1st, 1919, to September 30th, 1920, 

 the Canadian Women's Hostels have received four 

 thousand four hundred and seventy-five, not all of whom 

 came for household employment, but through the Govern- 

 ment Employment Bureaux. One thousand and eighty- 

 nine were placed in homes and institutions where they 

 have, in the main, given satisfaction. These figures do 

 not include all who came to Canada for employment, but 

 include a large percentage of ex-service women whose 

 passages were prepaid by the English Government. 



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