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the control of the Provincial Government; the 

 college site is to be sold, and a new building 

 to be erected for $100,000 of the proceeds, the 

 remainder going to further swell the university 

 endowment. Trinity University is an Angli- 

 can institution established in 1852, having 

 about 60 resident and non-resident students, 

 and a handsome building. McMaster Hall is a 

 Baptist college, which in 1887 was converted 

 into a university and received a bequest of 

 $800,000 from the late Senator McMaster. Be- 

 sides these universities there are in the city a 

 Presbyterian college (Knox), an Anglican col- 

 lege (Wycliffe), Trinity Medical School, with 

 300 students; Woman's Medical College, Col- 

 lege of Pharmacy, College of Physicians and 

 Surgeons, Royal College of Dental Surgeons of 

 Ontario, Veterinary College, etc. There are 

 thirty public schools in the city, the total ex- 

 penditure on their account in 1886 being $245,- 

 957, including $57,000 for new buildings ; there 

 are also sixteen separate schools, or Roman 

 Catholic institutions, and several other insti- 

 tutions for higher education, both undenomi- 

 national and Roman Catholic. The city has 

 numerous charitable and benevolent institu- 

 tions, including the Insane Asylum and the 

 General Hospital, having a capacity respect- 

 ively of 700 and 400. There are 26 organized 

 and thoroughly equipped institutions of this 

 nature. At the 1886-'87 session of the Ontario 

 Legislature, the sum of $1,050,000 was appro- 

 priated for the erection of new legislative 

 buildings in Queen's Park ; they will be con- 

 structed of Credit valley red sandstone, in 

 Neo-Greek architecture. The buildings were 

 commenced in 1886. Plans are being prepared 

 also for a combined police headquarters, court- 

 house, and city-hall building, for which the 

 City Council has appropriated $400,000. Con- 

 struction will be commenced in 1888. A pub- 

 lic library was opened March 6, 1884, and was 

 considerably enlarged in 1887; it covers the 

 ground-floor of a not very handsome building 

 at the corner of Church and Adelaide Streets, 

 and contained in 1887 about 48,000 volumes. 

 There are several other libraries, free to the 

 public with certain restrictions, chief among 

 which are the Parliamentary and the Osgoode 

 Hall. Other public buildings are Osgoode 

 Hall, the seat of the principal law and equity 

 courts of the province ; Government House, 

 the residence of the Lieutenant-Governor of 

 Ontario ; the customs house and the post- 

 office ; the Grand Opera-House and Jacobs' 

 and Shaw's Opera-House, each having a ca- 

 pacity of about 1,500; the Central Prison; 

 School of Practical Science ; the Observatory ; 

 the Normal School buildings, the present city 

 hall, court-house, police and legislative build- 

 ings. There are 105 churches in the city, ex- 

 clusive of several organized congregations 

 worshiping in public and other halls. The 

 principal buildings are St. James's Cathedral 

 (Anglican), costing $220,000, and having a 

 spire of 316 feet ; the Metropolitan (Methodist), 



costing $100,000 ; St. Michael's Cathedral 

 (Roman Catholic) ; St. Andrew's West (Pres- 

 byterian) ; and Jarvis Street Baptist Church. 

 New and handsome churches are now being 

 erected in every quarter of the city. There 

 are three morning newspapers and three 

 evening newspapers issued, besides sixty-three 

 weekly, monthly, and quarterly publications, 

 many of which are religious journals. The 

 railway connections of the city are the Ontario 

 divisions of the Canadian Pacific Railway, be- 

 ing the Credit Valley, the Toronto, Gray, and 

 Bruce, and the Ontario and Quebec sections; 

 the Grand Trunk, Midland, and Northern and 

 Northwestern ; and the Erie and Huron. There 

 are two telegraph companies, the Canadian 

 Pacific and the Great Northwestern of Canada ; 

 and one telephone company, the Bell. Toronto 

 was founded in 1794 by Governor Simcoe, 

 and became and remained until 1841 the seat 

 of Government for Upper Canada. It bore 

 the name of York until 1834, when it was 

 incorporated as the C'ty of Toronto. From 

 1849 to 1858 it alternated with Quebec as the 

 seat of the united goverrment, and at con- 

 lederation (1867) became permanent capital 

 of Ontario. 



Trenton, the capital of New Jersey, at the 

 head of navigation on Delaware river, on the 

 main line of the Pennsylvania Railroad, 33 

 miles from Philadelphia, and 57 miles from 

 New York. Its population by the State census 

 of 1885 was 34,386 ; but this does not include 

 the suburban municipalities of Chambersburg 

 and Millham, which are mere outgrowths of 

 the city, and would increase its population 

 to over 50,000. Trenton is the seat of the 

 largest pottery industry in the United States, of 

 a large and rapidly growing rubber-manufact- 

 uring interest, rolling-mills, wire-rope works, 

 woolen-mills, anvil-works, and a variety of 

 other important industries. One of the largest 

 and handsomest theatres in the country has 

 lately been finished. There are two horse- 

 railroad companies, with about ten miles of 

 track. The Pennsylyania Railroad, the Belvi- 

 dere Delaware Railroad, the Bound Brook 

 Railroad, and the old Caniden and Amboy 

 Railroad, radiate from the city. It is also in- 

 tersected by the Delaware and Raritan canal, 

 which has several large basins -in the city. 

 There are two lines of steam-propellers. The 

 water-supply is one of the best in the coun- 

 try. The works are owned by the city, and 

 the rates are very low. The city is surround- 

 ed by a rich and beautiful agricultural coun- 

 try. The climate is salubrious, and the death- 

 rate is only 16 in 1,000. Several miles of 

 streets are paved with Belgian block, asphalt, 

 and Telford. The capital invested in manu- 

 factures aggregates about $10,000,000, mainly 

 in pottery, iron and steel, rubber, brick, and 

 woolen goods. 



Tucson, a city of Arizona, on Santa Cruz riv- 

 er, in the southeastern part of the Territory, 

 and on the line of the Southern Pacific Rail- 



