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Toronto Boat Club coming into the Harbor.

Publication
Gleason’s Pictorial Companion, 8 Oct 1853, p. 240
Description
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TORONTO BOAT CLUB FLEET COMING INTO HARBOUR

We have been favored by a marine artist from Toronto, in the neighboring provinces, with a representation of a few of the boats of the Toronto Club coming into the harbor from a cruise on the lake. They are passing the Queen's Wharf, which forms the boundary of a narrow channel into the harbor, and the only entrance. On the end of the wharf is a lighthouse. This is a regularly established yacht club, and consists of about twenty vessels of various sizes, of from three to twenty tons. The scene on the bay—always a busy one, with steamers, propellers and merchant vessels—is much enhanced by these beautiful little vessels, with their lofty masts, and always under a press of canvas, so that one is alarmed for their safety. Yet no accidents occur as they are skillfully and well handled, though chiefly by landsmen. Their fairy forms and white sails may at all times distinguish them from others. They have regular regattas, prizes of considerable value in silver cups, etc. On the bank, at the foot of the Queen's Wharf, may be seen a first-class locomotive, built in Toronto at Good's Foundry, and it does him great credit. The Toronto and Huron Railroad runs along the bank in front of the town. There will shortly be railroads running into Toronto in every direction, and it is destined to be ere long a city of first magnitude. Part of the garrison may also be seen, and the lunatic asylum, in the distance.


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Clippings
Wood engravings
Subject(s)
Language of Item
English
Geographic Coverage
  • Ontario, Canada
    Latitude: 43.6365076011488 Longitude: -79.399465322876
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Toronto Boat Club coming into the Harbor.