10 THE UPPER YUKON 



is for the housing and entertainment of one — 

 man, with but one son to enjoy all of its 

 grandeur and conveniences upon the death of 

 its founder. Dame Rumor says it will cost 

 over a million dollars. 



So much can be said of Toronto, of its rapid 

 and startling growth, of the prosperity of the 

 rank and file of its citizens, of its great uni- 

 versity with its seven thousand students, of its 

 technical colleges, its religious schools, its 

 hockey, golf and baseball grounds, its social 

 clubs, churches, cathedrals, manufactures, and 

 princely business establishments, that they 

 cannot all be chronicled here, as I must 

 hasten on. 



We left Toronto at 12.45 P. M. on Saturday, 

 August third. The train was crowded with 

 people, as indeed every other train was upon 

 this particular day, because the following 

 Monday was to be a civic holiday; hence the 

 rush to get away from the city for a holiday 

 from Saturday until the following Tuesday 

 morning. 



There was to be a regatta for canoemen, but 

 where we couldn't find out. Canoes seemed 

 to be everywhere, on baggage trucks, in trains, 

 on the sidewalks, and on wagons. To tell 

 where they came from would be a puzzle, and 



