TORONTO 



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TORONTO 



by the voters, and the police are under the 

 direction of a board of police commissioners, 

 consisting of the mayor, the county judge and 

 the police magistrate. The board of aldermen, 

 or council, is the lawmaking body. 



History. The name Toronto is of Indian 

 origin. It means a place oj meeting, and was 

 probably given to the site because it was a ren- 

 dezvous for Indian councils or war parties. It 

 was then the end of the shortest and most con- 

 venient route between Lake Huron and Lake 

 Ontario. During the seventeenth and eight- 

 eenth centuries, the history of Canada was the 

 record of a struggle between the French and 



It comprises four faculties those of arts, medi- 

 cine, law, applied science and engineering. In 

 addition to the usual courses in these depart- 

 ments, the university offers special instruction 

 leading to the degrees of Bachelor of Applied 

 Science, Bachelor of the Science of Agriculture, 

 Civil Engineer, Mining Engineer, Mechanical 

 Engineer and Electrical Engineer. There are 

 also special courses in pedagogy, commerce and 

 household science. The university has an aver- 

 age attendance of about 4,000 students, and a 

 faculty of 400 members. The library contains 

 150,000 bound volumes, and a third that num- 

 ber of pamphlets. The property, of the uni- 



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English for the fur trade. The French control 

 of the Niagara River route led the English to 

 establish Fort Oswego, which was to attract 

 trade from the Northwest. The French coun- 

 tered by building Fort Rouille, in 1749, on the 

 site of Toronto. Ten years later the fort was 

 destroyed, to prevent its use by the English. 



Finally, in 1794, Governor Simcoe chose the 

 site for the capital of Upper Canada, and 

 named the new settlement York. It was cap- 

 tured by the Americans in 1813, and some of its 

 public buildings, including the archives, were 

 burned. In 1834, having acquired a population 

 of 9,000, York was incorporated as a city, and 

 its name changed to Toronto. The first mayor 

 was William Lyon Mackenzie. It suffered se- 

 vere loss during the Rebellion of 1837, and was 

 partly destroyed by fire in 1849 and again in 

 1904. In the latter year the property loss ex- 

 ceeded $8,000,000. Population in 1911, 376,538; 

 in 1916, local estimate 480,000. Assessed valua- 

 tion about $600,000,000. G.H.L. 



TORONTO, UNIVERSITY OF, a coeducational, 

 undenominational institution at Toronto, Ont. 



versity is valued at $7,000,000, and its annual 

 income is nearly $1,000,000. 



The University of Toronto is in fact, if not in 

 name, a provincial institution, and is at the 

 head of Ontario's public school system. It was 

 founded in 1827 as King's College, under An- 

 glican control, one of its chief promoters being 

 Bishop Strachan. Instruction was not begun 

 until 1843; in 1849 the university was re- 

 chartered under its present name and made un- 

 denominational. Since 1904 the university has 

 been a federated body. The institutions which 

 are most closely associated with the university, 

 and are for all practical purposes parts of it, 

 are the Ontario Agricultural College at Guelph ; 

 the Royal College of Dental Surgeons; the 

 College of Pharmacy; Toronto College of Mu- 

 sic; the School of Practical Science; and the 

 Ontario Veterinary College. The federated in- 

 stitutions, whose students may attend lectures 

 at the university, are Victoria University, Saint 

 Michael's College, Trinity College, Knox Col- 

 lege and Wycliffe College. University College, 

 organized in 1853, is a part of the university. 



