| Show HE H HEART bART ART of CANADA t aab 1 r ITi it 1 i RL 11 1 It h f Y y yf r t- t f a y One On of Toronto Toronto's Duty Busy Streets Prepared by National society tr L V O. O SYNC O. en Ie NE of the area of all O ONE NINTH Canada and one third one third of the Dominions Dominion's population a aVe ale e Included included In in- c In Ontario's borders And Ontario like a colossal motor Is the heart of Canada Exceeded by other provinces In forestry and fish fish- fisheries eriEs erles only Ontario takes first place In farming trapping mining electric power banking and manufacturing Not ot only that tha she Is dominant In Inmany Inmany Inmany many cultural ways And while Quebec Quebec Que Que- bec bee New ew Brunswick lck Manitoba Saskatchewan Saskatchewan Sas Alberta and British Columbia Co lumbia share the common frontier with us all nil our relations relations relations-bedal feudal financial financial abd and economic economic are are closest c with Ontario Toronto papers reveal our kinship In thought and antI behavior On the map you see Ontario shaped roughly like a tilted bust Its Ita face Cace against Hudson bay measuring about 1000 miles up It lies above the Great Lakes and south of Hudson hay boy roughly also Quebec Is east of oft It t t antI and Manitoba on the west Its organized districts Include sing Cochrane Cochrone Timiskaming Sudbury Algoma Thunder bay Halny river and Kenora Patricia district still largely unexplored and uninhabited Is a a. a wild area arl'S comprising nearly two two fifths fifths of the whole province Though Quebec was French It was speaking English people who first colonized colonized col col- col what Is now Lower Ontario while It was yet under the governor at nt Quebec To make life liCe easier for speaking French subjects the British by the Quebec act of 1774 left leCt French civil law In force although English criminal law was decreed At once language age troubles and other problems came to Irk the l English English- I speaking colonists now drifting up the St St. Lawrence valley beyond the French settlements Among other things they wanted to own lands under the English English Eng Eng- lish freehold system and not to pay yearly tithes s to seigniors as by French custom Creation of the Province To this Great Britain a agreed eed In 1701 1791 So a new province called Upper Canada Canada Conada Can Con ada now Ontario was established It embraced raced all land west of the Ottawa Ottawa Ot tawa river which still separates Quebec Quebec Que Que- bec bee from Ontario Even Een today the language changes as as you cross this line You cannot find a typical Ontario face any more than you can Identify a town home-town mind In America When Col John Graves SImcoe first t lieutenant governor set up his new capital capita at Niagara lagara village In 1792 and offered free land to all comers ready to serve the king a stream of Immigration gration began which was to form the character of the new province For years a steady flow came from Crom the United States Some were German Ger man Lutherans and Mennonites many were United Empire Loyalists but from Scotland England and Ireland came another stream Immigration has never stopped Toronto today has hasan hason nn on East Side as polyglot as New NewYork's NewYork's NewYork's Yorks York's though not so named Incidentally Inci Iaci dentally perhaps of Its residents real resi dents were WE're born In the United States Of late years the French from Quebec with their language faith habits and newspapers are drifting steadily y west In north Ontario Finns Poles Germans and Chinese pack the mines and lumber lamber lum lam ber camps Greeks Syrians and ItalIans Italians Ital Ital- ians lans are here cooks waiters wait walt ers era erst barbers bootblacks gardeners dry-cleaners dry peddlers hucksters- hucksters many many growing rich Just as In the States In one country town hotel one may Identify five different races among the help In mining towns like Sudbury Sodbury Sud Sod bury bury group after group may moy pass you yon In the Saturday night parade their talk a lingual riddle such as fell tell on ancient Babylon Yet pick the census reports to pieces and you see how completely British Ontario Is Is how predominantly English Your train as you reach Ottawa Ottaw halts halls almost In to the lobby of a vast hotel Only a few paces by bi subway and you step unexpectedly Into crowds of Englishmen smoking pipes gesticulating French rench politicians from Quebec and animated women women toward a ballroom where mine mine- ing lag manikins manikin sway to music In new- new model coats oats and gowns American Industries There Peer out of your train window as you reach Toronto or Hamilton Look at the familiar names on factory sign sign- boards There seems hardly any well- well known United States product that that Is ts not also made In Canada under the same trade name Scattered over all II southern Ontario you see factories making farm and other machines motor motor mator mo mo- tor cars and parts chemicals elec elec- electrical electrical electrical goods foods Items of rubber and glass Familiar advertisements run In to the papers window displays are the same as one might see In Pittsburgh or Minneapolis 1 The reasons for this migration of American Industries are plain proximity common language similar tastes lastes and living standards and particularly the Import tariff also many American firms firma too small to finance a 0 factory In faraway far Europe or the Orient have h here re only to move mOTe across the line What share of oC all the things you sell Is made In Canada one asks at n a sporting goods goads shop About 80 SO per cen cent now says tho the clerk and Its It's growing each year All these bicycles sweaters fishing tackle bats hats and halls balls boots hoots and socks thEy they are all Canada You think of oC Bret Hartes Harte's a tes te's Roaring Camp when you see Lakes Lake's gold camp on Saturday night In crowded crooked streets n a dozen doren oT ln men mento mento to every woman stores open till midnight mid mid- night even night even the hardware and furniture furniture furni furni- ture stores Finns and Chinese wearIng wear wear- Ing lag dollar 20 gold pieces as os watch charms a 0 crowded movie showing Ten Nights In tn a Barroom brawny Russian miners sprawled In barber chairs getting an Sunday over-Sunday polish the smell of fresh fresh cut cut pine and ond the noise of saws and hammers as bOo bo- hunks work by floodlight on a 0 new hotel young engineers In caps sweaters and laced high boots socially so so- dally playing cards In a 0 crowded lobby lobby lob lob- by snapping the cards cartIs down noisily Outside a kilted bagpipe band goes whining by on Its way to a n Legion party motor cars file flIe past bringing a shift of miners tin lunch boxes In hand from n a mine which some days yielded worth of gold For be It known 78 per cent of Canadas Canada's gold Is found In the 30 odd 0 odd fields of Ontario And this boom town of Kirkland Lake with Lake with Its Teck- Teck Hughes Its Lake Shore Kirkland and Wright mines where men hone bore holes boles feet teet deep deep la Is one of the greatest gold centers Ontario Ontario's Nickel Go to Sudbury home of the great International Nickel company and of ol the Frood mine and the rush and ond roar Is the same Here still more Finns a cafe caCe and Finns buying talking machine records of Finnish songs and Finns squatting about shoe shops and cigar stands stand playing more Finnish tunes on mandolins and singing sing sing- ing ng 1 boisterous Finnish songs In a beverage bar How flow dramatic the story of Ontario nickel first found by accident I Some odd odd looking looking red mud mutI drew the atten lion elf dt H a worker In building the Canadian Cana Cans dlan dian Pacific railway during 1883 The red mud was nickel ore Then the world used only or tons i n II year However a Glasgow engineer James Riley In 1889 found how to harden steel with nickel Soon the United States navy began to use steel nickel In armor plates and other navies nulls quickly Coli followed owed The World war kept Canada digging nickel day and night After peace when the Washington disarmament conference reduced battleship bat building and cut the the demand for nickel the th International and th thi Mond Mend Nickel 1 companies now consoli dated acted with courage and resource By technical research they found new uses for Cor nickel says Thomas W. W Gibson deputy minister of mines Now ow It Is ts shown to be as 81 useful In the arts arta of peace place as In the shock of war and the mines of Sudbury Sudbury Sudbury Sud Sud- bury supply 83 85 to 00 per cent of the worlds world's consumption In 1911 1011 Ontario mined only about worth of oC gold In 1031 1931 more than worth was recovered reco From only about 2 2 In 1000 1900 l OO Ontario's output of al all metals has Increased enormously I In n 1031 1931 It wai was nearly r 11 1 a o 1 t rV 1 j l |
