OLD MURRAY BAY 



ship. May the exploitation be at the hands 

 of sportsmen when the day arrives! 



The crude beginnings of tennis go back 

 to the 'eighties. It gave excuse for an oc- 

 casional afternoon gathering; but the 

 courts were rough, the game made little 

 progress at first and did not much afifect 

 the tenor of life. It worked no such 

 change in the habits of the community as 

 did the coming of the Americans (1882), 

 golf (1892), the insidious motor, the build- 

 ing of the railway. 



There were occasional visitors from the 

 south of the Line as early as 1866. The 

 presence of Mrs. Abraham Lincoln is re- 

 membered — still under the burden of her 

 immense sorrow, and starting in terrified 

 recollection at the sound of a gun. But 

 the migration which has reached such 

 proportions is chiefly traceable to the 

 propaganda of a New York doctor who 

 heard of the place through Canadian friends, 

 visited, appreciated, and prescribed it. The 

 little movement he set going in 1882 has 

 become so important that, were it arrested, 

 Pointe au Pic would shrink to less than half 

 the size, and the shrinking would be pain- 

 ful, for the village and the neighbourhood 

 have learned to depend upon the stranger 

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