The Canada directory : containing the names of the professionnal and business men of every description, in the cities, towns and principal villages of Canada..., 1 janvier 1857, Canada directory - TORONTO

[" Direcrory.] 1858.TORONTO.761 TORONTO, C.W.\u2014The Metropolis of Upper Canada, is situated on the north-west shore of Lake Ontario, facing a very gpacious Bay, or heautiful sheet of water, somewhat oval in form.The City is laid out in the form of a parallelogram, with singular regularity, the streets intersecting each other at right angles.Owing to the banks of the Lake being low and the site of the City rather flat, Toronto presents at a distance no striking aspect from any of its approaches.On nearing it from the Lake, however, it gradually unfolds itself, till, passing through the narrow entrance of the Harbor and steaming up the Bay, the Provincial Lunatic Asylum, Trinity College (Episcopal), the Parliament Houses, and other buildings come full into view.The domes and spires of the churches and public buildings in the background, give the City a very picturesque and imposing appearance.When finished, the projected Esplanade will greatly improve the front view from the Lake and Harbor (which it encroaches upon and faces), and, with its lines of quays and parallel lines of railway, will present a striking and animated scene.King and Yonge are the two principal streets: the former runs parallel with the Bay and the latter, intersecting it, extends northward, through a rich and prosperous agricultural country, forming a sort o irregular village of upwards of thirty miles in length.King\u2014the Ozford street or Broadway of Toronto, a very long, straight, and spacious street, with its broad sidewalks, and many handsome, well-filled shops\u2014is the fashionable business resort, the great thoroughfare and promenade.The public buildings of the City are very numerous, and many of them extremely handsome; such, for instance, as the new General Hospital, St.James\u2019s, St.Michael's, Zion, and Knox\u2019s Churches, the City Hall, 8t.Lawrence Market, Nordheimer\u2019s Music Hall, the Exchange, Mechanies\u2019 Institute, Post Office, City Schools, several of the Banks, the Rossin House, &c.; and especially the Normal and Model Schools,\u2014a spacious edifice, whose organisation and methods of instruction, though not long established, have produced a most beneficial change in academical government and tuition, which is rapidly making itself felt for good throughout the whole Province.Osgoode Hall, the seat of the Superior Courts of Law and Equity for Upper Canada, situated on Queen street, nearly opposise York street; the University of Toronto, and University College, standing retired amid the sequestered retreats of the University Park, are noble edifices.The University Park, with its Avenues to Queen and Yonge streets, and the Normal School grounds, beautifully laid out and planted, are places where all may freely go for tranquil walks and needful recreation.The Provincial Magnetical Observatory is also situated iu the University Park, and is one of the meteorological stations established by the British Government, at the request of the Royal Society of England, in 1840.It is now attached to the University of Toronto.Its position is as follows \u2018 Latitude 43° 39.4 North, Longitude 79° 2115 West, or 5 hours 17 minutes 26 seconds slow of Greenwich time.Toronto is at present the seat of the Provincial Government; and the several public Departments are located here.It has many industrial establishments, some of them extensive,\u2014including foundries, tanneries, a great variety of other factories, and some very fine milling establishments,\u2014which are thriving, and rapidly extending and improving their productions.Her spacious land-locked Harbor, easy of access to the largest craft that navigate our inland waters, and perfectly sheltered by the bar which faces it and keeps out the Lake, affords the utmost facility for any possible extension of business or trade.Connecting, as it does, at all seasons of the year, with almost every place of importance in Canada and the United States (seaboard as well as inland),\u2014 by means of the Grand Trunk, Great Western, Northern, and their connections; and by navigation, during summer, besides,\u2014the future of Toronto cannot but be prosperous.Thanks to her steady energy and enterprise, no less than to her centralized position, she is already reaping the first-fruits of her new connections in an extending trade,\u2014a steady prosperity which seems destined to be both durable and progressive.Distant from Niagara Falls 50 miles, Collingwood 93 miles, Hamilton 45 miles, London 114 miles, Kingston 165 miles, Montreal 333 miles, New York 500 miles, Boston 593 miles.Toronto returns two Members to the Provincial Parliament.Population about 50,000, and rapidly \"increasing.Value of assessed property in 1858, $38,532,300; value of imports $7,500,000, exports $1,500,000.\u2014 Toronto, formerly called York, was founded, in 1794, by Lieut.Governor John Graves Simcoe.BUSINESS INDEX\u2014TORONTO SUBSCRIBERS TO THE CANADA DIRECTORY.PAGE.PAGE.PAGE.PAGE.Accountants .\u2026 885 Board of Agriculture 836 China, Glass, &e.\u2026.\u2026.837 | Deputy Surveyor, &c.838 Active Militia.$35 Board of Public Wor! 836 Church Society .837 Dining Saloons.888 Adjutant Gene 835 Board of Trade .836 Cigars, Tobacco, &c, 837 Distillers .888 mcies.\u2026\u2026\u2026.835 Boarding Hous .836 City Corporation S37 Division Court .838 Agricultural I 835 Book Agent.886 City Recorder.837 Dressmaker.838 Alcohol, Caanphine 885 Bookbinders, & .S36 City Steam Sav 887 Dry Goods, Wholesale.\u2026\u2026 838 Ambrotypists, &e $35 Bookbinders St .836 | Civil Engineers, &c.857 Dry Goods, Wholesale and Architeots, .835 Booksellers.836 Civil Secretary\u2019s O 837 Retail.en 839 Artists, &e.$35 Boots and Shoes.836 Clergy 837 Dye Stuffs .839 Attornies G 835 Brassfounders.886 Clerk of Crown aud .883 Edge Tool .859 Auctioneers, &e.835 Brewers, .837 Clerk of Quarter Sessions.838 Educational Auditor Brickmaker, &e.837 Clerk of the Peace .538 Emigrant Office 839 Brokers 837 Cloths, Cassimeres, &c 838 Engineers, Founders, &c.839 Brush Manufact .837 Coal and Wood Yards 838 Engraver & Lithographer.839 Builders .837 Collector of Customs.838 Exchange News Room.839 Building Societies \u2026 Collectors Executive Council.839 Bureau of Agriculture and Express Companies .839 .Statistics._ Fancy Goods .839 Banks.836 Butchers\u2026 Fireproof B 839 Banner, Ko.(painter .836 Cabinetmakers, § Florists .- 89 Bar and Sheet Iron; .886 Canada Company's Confectioners Flour Dealer: .S39 Barristers, &a.836 Canadian Institute.Cousul.Force and L ss9 Baskets, Combs, &e, .886 Canvas, Anchors, &£e.Contractors .Forwarders.s9 Baths.0° .836 Carpenter and Joiner.Coppersmith.Freight \u2026 89 Baths, Hot and Cold.\" 834 Carpets and Oil Cloths Coroner.: Fresh, S Bible and Tract Society.\" 886 Carriagomakers.\u2026.7 County Treasurer \u2026 Sss|_ Meats .SS9 Biblo Society.885 Catholic Ornaments.837 Court of Probate.838 Furniture Carter.S39 Billiard Saloon.836 Cement Roofs.837 Crown Laud Department.838 Furs.839 Bisouits ., .838 Chemists and Druggists.837 Crown Law Department.$38 Gas Company.S9 Bluoksmiths.{22000 836 Children\u2019s Carriages, £o.837 Dentists.eevee 838 Gasaliers, &c.55 1857.[CANADA 762 TORONTO.PAGE PAGE.PAGE.General Agents.839 Libraryof Legislative Coun.Papor Manufacturors \u2026 \u2026 843 General Hospital.840 cil iin 841 Parliamontar y and Patent General Merchants .840 Liquors, &c., Wholesale .\u2026 841 Agent.res 843 General Passenger Agent.840 Liguors, &c., ) Wholesale and Patent Oftico.843 Gilders.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026.\u2026\u2026.uccrees 840 Retail 41 Phrenologist .848 Ginger Beer Manufacturer, 840 Lithographe 42 Physicians and Su E 848 Grain Sowing Machines.840 Local Superintendent of Pianoforte & Music Ware- Grand Trunk Railway 840 Schools.842 houses .843 Grocers, Wholesale, .Looking Glass and Picture Pio le \u2018Panor.843 Grocers, Wholesale and Frames.\u201c .B43 Retail.01reccecceres 840 Looking Glasses Guns, Pistols, Rifles, &c.840 Lumber ' 813 Hairdressers .840 Marbleized Granite, and Plantaganet Mineral Wate or 843 Hardware.Rotary Press.842 PL .843 Hardware, Wholesale.840 Mari Mingo License Agent.842 Plumbers and Gasfitte Hats and Caps.840 Masonic Regalia.842 Pork Dealer .Health Inspector 840 Mathematical Instruments 842 Post Ollige Department .Heraldry Office.840 Mayor.1e « 842 Post Oltice Inspector.High Bailiff.\u2026 840 Mechanics Institute.842 Postmaster.vu Homeopathic Physic ns.840 Medicated Air aud Lung Pringors, Book and Job.Honiton Lace.840 Machines.ceei ees 842 Printing Iuk.3 Hot Air Furnaces.840 Meerschaum Pipes, &c.Printseller and Publisher, 843 Hotels.810 Merchant Tailors.Produce \u2026.\u2026\u2026.\u2026, cernes 843 House Agentsy.840 Millers.Provincial Agricultural House and Sign Painter: s.810 Millinery Association.843 House Furnishing Goods.840 Millwrights .Provincial Aide de Camp.843 House of Industry.840 Money Order Office.Provincial Land Surveyors India Rubber Hos 840 Montreal Freight and Pas- and Draughtsmen.13 Indian Department.840 sage Line.842 Provincial Registrar's Of- Inspector General\u2019s Office, 8#1 MontrealOcean Steam Ship fice.843 Inspectors.\u2026.841 Company.842 Provincial Secretary's Of- Insurance Agen .841 Montreal Telegraph Co,.842 fice.843 Insurance Offices.841 Montreal Throug Freight Provisions.843 Iron and Tin Plate s 841 Steamboat olfiCe.oone 842 Queen's Printer 844 Iron Founder._ 841 Mustard and Spice Mills.,, 842 Ready Made Clothing .844 Iron, Steel, &c.Needles, Fish Hooks, &c., 842 Receiver Generals Office.844 Iron, Steel, &c., News Depots.842 Registrar of Free Banks.844 Jewellery.Newspapers, &c.842 Registry Office, &C.ons .844 Lace.Notaries Public.842 Restaurants .\u2026 844 Ladies School.Observatory 842 i Lamp Oils, &ec.Oeulist and À 843 Row! Mail Through Line., 844 Land and Genera Oils, Hides, &c.843 dlery & Carriage Hard- Law Agent .841 Omnibus Proprie 843 WAYC.\u2026.uoconcatcracereee 844 Law Publishers, &c.841 Ontario, Simcoe and Safes, & .844 Law Stationers.841 Railway.843 Salesman 844 Leather.841 Opticians .843 Saloons.844 Legislative Assem .841 Oysters .843 Sashes, D., 844 Legislative Council.841 Painters an 843 Savings Bank, (T 844: Lever Press Maker.841 Paints, Qils, &c.843 Saw Frames an 844 Library of Parliament.841 Paper Hangings.843 School Books.844 MISCELLANEOUS INDEX.on PAGE, PAGE.Adjutant General's Office.Convent of Loretto.Sop Literary and Scientific As- Agricultural and Horton.© County Court.852 sociations.spores 852 tural _.\u2026.c-grsrcrcccense 6 County Gaol .| 852 -in Hospital.Bank of B, N, America.Bank of Montreal.Bank of Toronto.k: .Banque du Peupl Le Board of Schoo Tristoss.3 Board of Tr: Branch of Provincial faa tie Asylum.ccoerreneenee Building Societies .Bureau of Agriculture and Statistics, and Patent Of- «Canada Permanent Building and Savings Society.847 Canadian Congregational Theological Institute Canadian Institute .Cemeteries and Burying oar