Excerpt from Industries of Canada: Historical and Commercial Sketches of Toronto and Environs, Its Prominent Places and People, Representative Merchants and Manufacturers, Its Improvements, Progress and Enterprise HE growth of the Province of Ontario is so marked-in all depart ments of industry and commerce that its best informed citizens are not able to keep pace with the many. Very rapid changes that are continually going on about them. Particularly is this the case with the metropolis of this Province, which has made such magical strides in improvements during the past decade. Recognizing the need of some work which would give a comprehen sive and intelligent knowledge of the Toronto of to-day and the place she justly occupies, the publishers have no hesitancy in placing it in the hands of the public, believing that no volume heretofore issued contains so great an amount of useful information. The design of the work is not only to acquaint the people of Toronto with what properly belongs to their city and its material growth, but to place with them a convenient work of reference of such character that its distribution abroad will be a matter of interest to all. 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. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.