TORONTO: AN HISTORICAL SKETCH 
the Nations,” of a more peaceful character than that 
which helped to destroy the Roman empire. This 
movement has come not to destroy but to fulfil the 
destiny of Canada as the melting-pot of nations and 
the solvent of Anglo-Saxondom. At the May Day 1913 
meeting of United Workers of Toronto speeches were 
given in Polish, Bulgarian, Finnish, Yiddish, and 
Italian, as well as English, advocating education and 
favouring peace. It is reassuring to know that the 
dominating proportion of the population of the 
Dominion, 54 per cent. in 1911, is still of British 
origin. The English gained 562,000, or 44.5 per 
cent., from 1901 to 1911, the French 406,000, or 
24.5 per cent., the Germans 82,000, or 26 per cent. 
The Irish population increased 62,000 to 1,050,000, 
and the Scottish 198,000 to 998,000. The only other 
Europeans making six-figure records in Canada are 
Austro-Hungarians, 129,000, and Scandinavians, 
107,000. Both the Indian and Negro records are 
decreasing. The total population was 5,371,315 in 
1901, and 7,206,634 in 1911, a gain of 1,835,328, 
- or 84 per cent. 
In this advance Toronto more than held its own. 
According to the census of 1911 the population was 
376,240, and the official estimate (June 5th, 1913) 
is 488,000. Territorially the city extends about ten 
miles from east to west along the lake front, and by 
the recent addition of North Toronto its northern and 
southern limits lie equally far apart. 
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