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GREAT CANADIAN CITIES 
 
 HE greater cities of the Dominion of Canada are particularly notable for an air of individuality which 
 characterizes each of them — a specific identity forever separating the impressions of one city from those 
 of another in the mind of the most unobservant traveler — a definite something which is oftentimes 
 lacking in the make-up of many of the large centers of population in the powerful neighboring 
 Republic. 
 
 This touch of character is due largely to such peculiar phenomena as have arisen from the preservation of 
 differing languages, customs and amusements side by side, and is also a result of the stirring historical associa- 
 tions of the Canadian cities and to the disposition of their people, inherited with both English and French blood, 
 to venerate and care for such material objects as have had a share in connecting the history of their native city 
 with the story of their country. 
 
 Toronto, godly, cleanly and British ; Ottawa, with a fresh beauty and growing strength typical of the youth- 
 ful Dominion of which it is the political metropolis; Montreal, regal and superb; quaint and mediaeval Quebec; 
 loj^al St. John and martial Halifax complete a galaxy of deep rooted, prosperous and expanding cities which is 
 justly the pride and glory of the sturdy young "Giant of the North." 
 
 Nor do these cities suffer by a comparison with those of any nation, especially of such features as form an 
 essential part of the real greatness of municipalities. Their governments are honest and earnest ; their schools 
 advanced and thorough ; their churches, colleges and charitable institutions numerous and well-endowed ; and 
 within their borders have been developed to a superlative degree a public spirit and civic pride which have 
 brought about the erection of splendid buildings and monuments of a solidity, permanency and artistic finish to 
 challenge the admiration of the world. 
 
 The future of the Dominion of Canada is assured. Its growth into a mighty nation, a clean-limbed and worthy 
 rival of its great and generous American neighbor, can be foreseen by those who do not claim prophetic vision. 
 The forward impulses in this expansion of the Dominion will emanate from her magnificent cities, proud of an 
 untarnished past, and blessed with as young and as. vigorous a spirit with which to welcome the future as are 
 the newer communities of the immense Northwest. ; , 
 
 Published by L. H. NELSON CO., Portland, Me., Publishers Nelson's International Series of Souvenir Books. 
 
 Copyright, 1905, 1910, by L. H. Nelsox CoMrANY". 22xd Tiiovsaxh. 
 
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 ONTARIO PARLIAMENT BUILDINGS 
 
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 TORONTO UNIVERSITY 
 
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