TORONTO: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 
It was a professor of mathematics who led the way, 
and certainly there is no better place to study hydro- 
dynamics in its relation to geography. At the south- 
ern extremity of this row of cottages stands the Lake- 
side Summer Home for Sick Children, the gift of 
Mr. John Ross Robertson, who also built the Hos- 
pital for Sick Children on College Street, the most 
appealing of Toronto’s many charitable institutions. 
Few’'sights are so touching as the annual moving in 
May of the little patients and their nurses from the 
city to the Lakeside Home. Turning to the left, we 
pass the lighthouse which for years has guarded this 
point and is the one building that knew the Island 
as a peninsula. For it was not till 1853 that the 
Eastern Gap, now the ordinary entrance for vessels 
from the south and east, was broken through in a 
violent storm. Beyond the lighthouse are the pump- 
ing station and filtering basin of the water-works, 
and in the offing we see the bell-buoy which marks 
the end of the intake pipe and whose mournful 
note suggests recollections of water famines and dis- 
infected microbes, now happily matters of ancient 
history. A pretty little church hard by is used by 
different denominations in turn, recalling the fact 
that Church Union has made more progress in 
Canada than elsewhere and that there is a good pros- 
pect of the Congregational, Methodist and Presby- 
terian Churches uniting within the coming decade. 
On May 22, 1913, an Anglican Church Unity Society 
was organized in Toronto. As we go east little road- 
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