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10 CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK. land Landing, separating the streams falling into Lake Simcoe from those that fall into Lake Ontario, and, as it advances eastwards, again approaches the Lake towards the Bay of Quinte. This formation has evidently at one time formed the boundary of the Lake, the same being visible on the American side.—There is a communication between the rising manufacturing town of Dundas and the western end of Bur lington Bay by means of a canal, five miles in length, called the Desjardins Canal after a Frenchman who commenced the work. The prosperity of both places may be dated since the cutting of the Bur lington Canal through the sandy beach that formed an impassable bar between the Lake and the Bay.—Betwixt Hamilton and Toronto there are seen in succession the towns or villages of Wellington Square, Oakville, and Port Credit. In the neighbourhood of the last is an Indian reserve, belonging to the Missisagua Indians, ex tending for one mile on each side of the river Credit. Their village was built by Government in 1825. They have a Methodist chapel and a school attached, besides a warehouse at the Port. It is grati fying to mention that the Indians hero possess XI350 of the stock of the company that built the harbour at an expense of X2500, which might be so improved as to be rendered capable of affording refuge for any number of ships. TOKOJfTO is the most populous city in Upper Canada, being upwards of twenty thousand. The site was selected by Governor. Simcoe in 1793, when only two Indian families resided on it. It was at first called York, but afterwards it was altered to the sonorous Indian name of Toronto or “ The Place of Meeting.” It was the Capital of the Up per Province from 1797 to 1841, when Lord Sydenham removed the Seat of Government to Kingston. It was apprehended that the removal would have caused a decline in its prosperity; but the energies of the citizens were roused, their trade has greatly increased, and the city itself is now well drained and paved, and supplied with gas and water. Of late years many handsome buildings have been erected, such as Osgoode Hall, St. George’s Church, the Banks, the Lunatic Asylum, the Catholic Cathedral, and the Lyceum.