Excerpt from A Trip to Niagara Simcoe, our first Governor, changed this name to York, in honour of the Duke of York, 1792, but the good sense of its people restored the original name, Toronto, in l83i. The prosperity of to-day makes the name as significant as it was in the early days, before its manufactures and busy wharfs and steamers took the place of birch-bark canoes and Indian tepees. Across the Bay we soon reach the gap or deep cut made as an outlet to the lake through the sand ridge which is to-day the much-sought Island for summer residences, hospital, pleasure clubs and hotels, out on to the broad blue waters of Lake Ontario, one of the great fresh-water inland seas for which we have room in Canada. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy.

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