NATURAL HISTORY, TORONTO REGION 
their fellow-citizens, there is even greater cause for 
pride in the general diffusion of a comfortable com- 
petence that is evident in every quarter and along 
every car line in the city. 
Nowhere is it more in evidence than on Toronto’s 
unique summer resort, “the Island.” Years ago 
Charles Dudley Warner called it our Lido, but both 
the Lido and the Island have been altered much 
since then. The former shows by its vast cara- 
vanserais and monotonous rows of wooden bath- 
ing-houses that it has become a summer resort 
for thousands of European and American tourists; 
the latter has become the holiday home of the multi- 
tude of citizens whose business or whose tastes keep 
them in town during the summer. Families of all 
degrees of wealth and social standing pass their vaca- 
tions here, and in consequence there is much greater 
diversity of character in the residences than on the 
Lido. There is no tramway, however, as at Venice, 
but the geologist is sure to be a walker and will find 
much to interest him in a visit to this silting spit of 
land which by creating its future harbour determined 
the site of Toronto. Hanlan’s Point, on the west, is 
the popular resort, with its baseball grounds; its out- 
door entertainments, its aquatic sports and its air of 
a perpetual kermesse. A few minutes’ walk to the 
south and we come to the older cottages dating from 
the eighties, when the “ mania for summer-outings ” 
first struck Toronto. Goldoni called it a mania; to 
us of the twentieth century it is the highest wisdom. 
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