Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 147, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1917 — Toronto Like American City. [ARTICLE]

Toronto Like American City.

Toronto is the most American of the great Canadian cities, and also the most Canadian. “American” is here used as the Canadian uses it, to mean the United States. The mere geographical fact that Canada is .in America does not count for anything with him. When he says the American election or American whisky he means United States. Toronto, being near the border, doing business with and after the fashion of the United States and lacking the picturesque element in its population that makes Montreal and Quebec different, is very much like Buffalo, or any of several cities right across the border. Thwpeople wear the same r klnd of clothes and talk the same 61nd of slang, the buildings are the same and the same articles are sold in the stores.