TORONTO: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 
open spaces of Osgoode Hall, presented as a gift to 
the Law Society by Sir John Robinson, and Wykham 
Hall, formerly the residence of Sir James Macaulay, 
and now the seat of the Bishop Strachan School. At 
the opposite corners of the other diagonal, S.E. and 
N.W., the energy and generosity of the North of Ire- 
land still find fitting representatives. The one contains 
the immense establishment—stores, factories, stables 
and garages—of the T. Eaton Company, unsurpassed 
as an example of rapid commercial success. The firm 
in its building operations seems to be executing an 
echelon movement by squares to reach the opposite 
north-western angle of the “ward.” Here the splen- 
didly-equipped surgical wing of the new General Hos- 
pital bears witness to the generosity of Mr. J. C. 
Eaton, the present head of the Company. 
Within the central space between these points lies 
closely congested the greater part of Toronto’s foreign 
population. Six synagogues and half a dozen foreign 
missions indicate the cosmopolitan character which 
the “ward ” has now assumed and the efforts which 
are being made to assimilate and Canadianize its 
new denizens. To the lover of the picturesque and 
the cosmopolitan a walk through this region is an 
unfailing source of delight. The eye of the pessimist 
sees “ slums ” writ large over the district. The opti- 
mist rejoices in the sight of this teeming life, so eager 
to reproduce itself, so hopeful of the outlook in this 
land of magnificent opportunities, so confident of 
gaining, not only a comfortable livelihood, but an 
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