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Thanks for reading! If you'd like more of my rants about Toronto history, I've got a new weekly newsletter full of 'em:

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1. This is the Queen's Hotel. It once stood on Front Street in Toronto. During the American Civil War, it was filled with Confederate soldiers and spies — from there, they plotted to win the war & preserve slavery. Here's a thread about Torontonian support for the Confederacy.

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1. This photo was taken on New Year's Eve at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto — revellers ringing in 1942. I stumbled across it last night. And it turns out there's a story behind this photo: a wild, tragic tale filled with scandal, war, Broadway stars & betrayal.

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1. It was on this night 110 years ago that the Titanic hit the iceberg. Decades later a Soviet submarine descended to the ocean floor to explore the wreck. It found something surprising down there: 12 tickets for the Toronto streetcar. Here's the story of how they got there…

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1. One spring day 76 years ago, a Canadian medic leapt out of a plane high above Nazi Germany and began floating toward the ground. This is the story of Toppy Topham — and how he died.

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1. A man jumped off the CN Tower in 1979. He launched himself into the air more than 300 metres above the ground, plummeting toward the concrete below... And survived. Here's a little thread about Dar Robinson's death-defying leaps above Toronto...

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1. Decades after the sinking of the Titanic, a Soviet submarine descended to the ocean floor to explore the wreck. It found something surprising down there: 12 tickets for the Toronto streetcar. Here's the story of how they got there…

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1. It was 150 years ago that thousands of Torontonians marched to Queen's Park during an illegal strike. They won the right for Canadians to form unions — and inspired the creation of Labour Day. Here's a thread about the Toronto Printers' Strike & how it changed Canada…

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1. Toronto helped create baseball's colour barrier. So here, 75 years after Jackie Robinson finally broke it, is a thread about how Toronto helped make it in the first place.

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1. This is Joseph Bloore. You might know the street named after him in Toronto. Or have even seen this disturbing photo before. But you probably don't know much about the man in it. So here's a thread about the guy in the most infamously unsettling portrait in Toronto history...

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1. It's 1929. Ernest Hemingway is in Paris. And he’s about to get his ass kicked by an author from Toronto.

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1. Toronto banned the St. Patrick’s Day Parade for more than a century. Why? Religious hatred & sectarian violence. Here’s my annual thread about the bloody riots that rocked our city in the days when Toronto was known as "The Belfast of Canada."

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6. Anderson Ruffin Abbott, for instance, was the first Black Canadian to graduate from medical school. He left Toronto for Washington D.C., where he ran a hospital in a refugee camp & became friends with Abraham Lincoln.

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1. This is the story of Ursula Franklin — the badass Toronto scientist who used hundreds of thousands of human teeth to fight nuclear weapons.

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1. Doctor Who was created by a Canadian. Here's a big long wild thread about the guy from Toronto who created one of the most quintessentially British shows. And how he ended up as a possible target for kidnapping by the FLQ.

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1. Toronto banned the St. Patrick’s Day Parade for more than a century. Why? Religious hatred & sectarian violence. Here’s my annual thread about the bloody riots that rocked our city in the days when Toronto was known as "The Belfast of Canada."

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1. Well this seems like the perfect day for a thread about old baseball stadiums in Toronto. It's a history that stretches all the way back to the 1800s and a place called the Toronto Baseball Grounds…

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You can learn more about places in Toronto connected to the city's history of slavery thanks to @NHenryFundi & @myseumTO : You should really follow all of Natasha Henry's work.

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5. When the war broke out, tens of thousands of Canadians joined the Union Army. There wasn't a major battlefield in the entire war where Canadians didn't fight. Thousands of them were Black — as many as 13% of all the Black residents of Canada West (Ontario) joined the cause.

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4. Anti-slavery activists used Toronto as a meeting place; it played a helpful role as a largely abolitionist city just across the lake from the U.S. The new St. Lawrence Hall on King Street hosted anti-slavery lectures & conferences. Frederick Douglass once spoke there.

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1. Today we celebrate Toronto’s 189th birthday. Which is pretty weird. Because Toronto isn’t 189 years old. And it wasn’t founded in March. Here goes my annual rant…

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1. Toronto banned the St. Patrick’s Day Parade for more than a century. Why? Sectarian violence. Here’s my annual thread about the bloody religious riots that used to rock "The Belfast of Canada."

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1. On this night 119 years ago, Toronto burned. Here's a thread about The Great Fire of 1904 — and the strange, grisly tale of the one life it claimed...

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1. Meet Beatrice White. A century ago, this Toronto teenager was hailed as "The Angel of Death." Here's the story of how she killed half a million flies — and why she did it...

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1. A strange creature is said to lurk in the sewers beneath Toronto, three feet tall with glowing red eyes, spotted in the east end nearly 50 years ago. Here’s a thread about the Tunnel Monster of Cabbagetown...

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1. It's 1929. Ernest Hemingway is in Paris. And he’s about to get his ass kicked by an author from Toronto.

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1. The Toronto Blue Jays are named after the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. And the story of how it happened involves booze, boxing, and one of the most infamous kidnappings in Canadian history. A thread!

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1. This is Joseph Bloore. You might know the street named after him in Toronto. Or have even seen this disturbing photo before. But you probably don't know much about the man in it. So here's a thread about the guy in the most infamously unsettling portrait in Toronto history...

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1. It's 1929. Ernest Hemingway is in Paris. And he’s about to get his ass kicked by an author from Toronto.

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30. Tens of thousands of Canadians fought to end slavery. Many Torontonians welcomed those who came to our city fleeing the hatred of the South. But there's far, far more to the story of slavery & Toronto than tales of the Underground Railroad.

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2. When the Civil War began, slavery in Toronto had been over for just 27 years. The city was built with the help of slave labour. Families like the Jarvises & the Russells enslaved families like the Pompadours.

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3. Since then, Toronto had become a relatively safe haven for those fleeing slavery along the Underground Railroad, thanks to people like Thornton & Lucie Blackburn — along with White allies like George Brown & his Globe newspaper.

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1. On this day 112 years ago, a team of construction workers in Toronto made one of the most extraordinary discoveries in the entire history of the city.

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Joseph Bloor lives! The most handsome man in Toronto history brought to life by this wild new #DeepNostalgia animation tool from MyHeritage...

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1. Today we celebrate Toronto’s 187th birthday. Which is super weird. Because Toronto isn’t 187 years old. And it wasn’t founded in March. Here goes my annual rant…

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1. Toronto's founding cat arrived 230 years ago this summer, sailing into our bay on a warship. We don't know much about him, but here's a little thread about what we do…

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1. A red-hot rumour was sweeping through Toronto over the holidays in 1799. It was so outrageous that it ended with a duel at dawn — killing one of the city's most powerful men. Here's story of the sordid scandal that had our town buzzing during this week 223 years ago…

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1. Clowns & firefighters got into a brawl at a Toronto brothel on this night 168 years ago. It sparked the strangest riot in the city's history. So, here's a thread about the Toronto Circus Riot…

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12. Some Toronto Confederates were even involved in biological warfare, sending trunks full of clothes infected with yellow fever into major cities of the North, planning to give one to Abraham Lincoln — only to discover yellow fever can't be transmitted that way.

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29. There at the entrance to the Lost Villages Museum in Auld Park stands a monument dedicated to the Canadians who fought for the Union *and* those who fought for the Confederacy. It's not a long forgotten relic from the distant past. It was erected in 2017. (pic via Quartz)

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1. On this day 68 years ago, the people of Toronto woke up to find the city had been ravaged by a terrible hurricane...

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1. Today is Simcoe Day in Toronto. So let's talk about John Graves Simcoe & his strange, complicated relationship with slavery. The founder of Toronto was an avowed abolitionist... who also once fought a war to *preserve* slavery. Here's my annual thread...

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Thanks so much for reading! This is one of the stories you'll find in The Toronto Book of the Dead, which is available at all the usual places. And if you'd like more about Toronto history, I'm offering a couple of upcoming online courses here:

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1. Doctor Who was created by a Canadian. The first episode aired 60 years ago today, so here's my long & wild annual thread about the guy from Toronto who created one of the most quintessentially British shows. And how he ended up as a possible target for kidnapping by the FLQ.

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Bathurst & Davenport painted in 1875. That's the tollkeeper's cottage down there on the corner. You can still visit it today: saved from demolition, moved back to the intersection & opened to the public. Thought to be the oldest surviving tollbooth of its kind in Canada.

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13. Many Canadians supported the South. Most of Toronto's leading citizens were on the side of the Confederacy, along with the vast majority of Canada's newspapers, including the Toronto Leader.

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7. But Dr. Abbott — and every other Canadian who joined the Union war effort, fighting to end slavery — was breaking the law.

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1. It was this week 57 years ago that Doctor Who premiered. So here's a big long crazy thread about the Canadian who created one of the most quintessentially British shows. And how he ended up as a possible target for kidnapping by the FLQ.

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1. In 1987, a Soviet submarine travelled to the bottom of the Atlantic. Its mission: to explore the wreckage of the Titanic. And way down there on the ocean floor, it found something surprising: 12 tickets for the Toronto streetcar. Here's the story of how they got there…

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8. The British Empire was officially neutral during the war, refusing to the support the Union against the Confederacy. That meant the Canadian colonies were neutral too. Canadians were banned from supporting either side.

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Thanks so much for reading! If you'd like more love stories from the history of the city, the very first copies of The Toronto Book of Love have probably just arrived at your favourite local bookstore. #bookofloveTO

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10. The Queen's Hotel — which stood where the Royal York does today — became the Confederates' Toronto HQ. They rented out the entire place, more than a hundred of them, plotting against the Union from the lobby & the hotel bar.

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9. As the war dragged on, the Confederacy saw Canada's neutrality as an opportunity to open a second front — a base from which they could launch attacks against the North. The grey coats of Confederate soldiers soon became a familiar sight on Toronto's streets.

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1. On this night 118 years ago, Toronto burned. Here's the story of The Great Fire of 1904, one of the worst disasters ever to befall our city...

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Thanks for reading! If you'd like more stories about the history of Toronto, you can subscribe to my newsletter: And I wrote more about the Canadians on the Titanic for my doc series, @thisiscanadiana :

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25. He became a founder of the "Canada First" movement — as racist as it sounds — and when the Canadian government sent troops west to crush Louis Riel's North-West Rebellion, Denison was one of them. There's still a memorial to those Toronto troops standing in Queen's Park.

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I, uh, rather unbelievably, am this year's recipient of the Governor General's History Award for Popular Media — the Pierre Berton Award:

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1. On this night 69 years ago, Toronto was ravaged by a terrible hurricane. Here's my annual thread about the horrors unleashed by Hurricane Hazel...

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23. Soon, Toronto's most notorious Confederate was recruited as a police magistrate. For half a century, he presided over his fellow citizens with the powers of a judge. All the way into the 1920s.

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21. After the war, Denison was investigated for breaches of neutrality, but acquitted. He even got to keep his seat on Toronto City Council — did I mention he was an alderman? — where he was the lone vote against a motion expressing sympathy after the murder of Abraham Lincoln.

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17. Many Canadians worried that a strong & united United States would eventually invade Canada again, just like they did in the War of 1812. Others simply admired the Southern way of life. And some came from slave-owning families themselves. Families like the Denisons.

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28. And while Canada might not be the place you would expect to find memorials to Confederate soldiers, if you head down the 401 toward Cornwall, you'll find one there.

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29. Toppy Topham died of a simple heart attack in 1974.

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15. Toronto wasn't alone. In Saint John, hundreds threw a parade to celebrate a Southern victory, flying Confederate flags. Haligonians helped capture a Union ship; a mob made sure they weren't arrested for it. Southern soldiers used Montreal as a base to rob banks in Vermont.

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1. Toronto helped create baseball's colour barrier. So here, 76 years after Jackie Robinson finally broke it, is a thread about the leading role Toronto played in making it.

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11. Confederates based out of Toronto launched raids across the Great Lakes, attacked Union ships & firebombed targets in New York City. They plotted to kidnap the vice president & spent spies across the border carrying secret messages sewn into the linings of boots and collars.

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1. In 1968, folk singer Bruce Cockburn fled his Toronto apartment in terror, never to return. His girlfriend had felt an evil spirit haunting the house — and trying to possess her. Here's one of the strangest & spookiest stories in the history of our city...

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24. Denison openly admitted that he often based his decisions on his gut — and that his gut didn't care much for the city's Black residents. In one decade alone, he tried about 30,000 cases. Only one of those decisions was overturned on appeal.

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1. Today is Simcoe Day and Emancipation Day. So let's talk about John Graves Simcoe & his strange, complicated relationship with slavery. The founder of Toronto was an avowed abolitionist... who also once fought a war to *preserve* slavery.

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1. It's Simcoe Day today — so let's talk about John Graves Simcoe and his weird, complicated relationship with slavery. The founder of Toronto was an avowed abolitionist... who also once fought a war to preserve slavery.

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26. And a century later, you'll still find traces of the Denisons all over the west end of Toronto. The family name lives on in Denison Ave — it was their driveway. Their country manors are remembered by Dovercourt Road & Rusholme Road, by Bellevue Avenue & Bellevue Square.

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16. And while most Canadians who fought in the war fought for the Union, plenty joined the Confederate army, too.

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Thanks so much for reading! If you'd like more... Bloore is just one of the boozy historical figures we'll cover in my new online course, A Boozy History of Toronto: And I've got a Toronto history newsletter, too:

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1. On a wintry day in Toronto 114 years ago, a team of construction workers made one of the most spectacular archaeological discoveries in the entire history of the city.

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If you can afford it, the Black Legal Action Centre ( @BLAC_Ontario ) provides free legal services for low or no income Black residents of Ontario, helping to counter the legacy of people like George Denison III. They accept donations: .

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22. When Jefferson Davis, president of the defeated Confederacy, came to live in Canada after being released from prison, Denison gathered thousands of Torontonians to give him a warm welcome. He scrambled up onto a coal heap to lead the cheers. And that was just the beginning.

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14. When the South won a big, Canadian parliament broke out in cheers. A visiting Union soldier was jeered in the streets of Toronto. When he walked into a saloon, he was met by the mocking strains of "Dixie". A Torontonian made the Greek fire used to bomb targets in New York.

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One of High Park’s storm water ponds has gone fluorescent green. I can’t imagine that’s a great sign.

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18. The Denisons were one of the city's founding families, settlers who enslaved a woman named Amy Pompadour at their home on Front Street & their country manor — she was "given" to them as a "gift" from the Russells.

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1. This is the story of Ursula Franklin. The badass Toronto scientist who used hundreds of thousands of human teeth to fight nuclear weapons.

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19. Decades later, their great-grandson became Toronto's most notorious Confederate supporter: George Denison III. His uncle was a Southern secret agent. His parents hosted Confederate leaders at their country manor near Bloor & Dovercourt. And he would go even further.

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1. Today we celebrate Toronto’s 185th birthday. Which is pretty weird. Because Toronto isn’t 185 years old. And it wasn’t founded in March. Thus begins my yearly rant…

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20. Denison didn't just welcome Southern leaders into his home, he actively supported the Confederates: helped them buy a steamship to carry out their raids across the lakes, hid spies at his country manor, contributed to their plots & provided them with transport.

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You can also write Mayor John Tory to demand he support @kristynwongtam & @JoshMatlow 's upcoming motion to reduce the Toronto police budget by 10%: mayor_tory [at] toronto [dot] ca And your city councillor too: . (pic via @BLM_TO )

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1. Today we celebrate Toronto’s 188th birthday. Which is super weird. Because Toronto isn’t 188 years old. And it wasn’t founded in March. And so begins my annual rant…

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27. Brookfield Street remembers the country estate where Amy Pompadour was once enslaved. George's own manor, Heydon Villa — where he plotted with his Confederate friends & hid Southern spies — is remembered in the names of Heydon Park Road & Heydon Park Secondary School.

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1. The St. Patrick’s Day Parade was banned in Toronto for more than 100 years. Why? Sectarian violence. Here’s a thread about “The Belfast of Canada” and the riots that rocked the city.

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I got to hang out with @Harryslaststand a few months ago, while we @Ripplecreatives folk were making this video for @UNHCRCanada . It was deeply inspiring to watch him meet with refugees & share some of what he's learned. We're pulling for you, Harry.

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They called it SkyDome for a reason.

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1. On this night 66 years ago, a terrible hurricane descended upon Toronto...

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1. The Toronto Blue Jays are named after the Winnipeg Blue Bombers. And the story of how that happened involves booze, boxing, and one of the most infamous kidnappings in Canadian history. A thread!

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1. This photo was taken on New Year's Eve at the Royal York Hotel in Toronto. When I first stumbled upon it, I assumed it was an ordinary picture of revellers ringing in 1942. But there's actually a wild story behind it: a tragic tale of scandal, war, Broadway stars & betrayal.

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1. So this seems like a pretty good time to head out on a tour of some of Toronto’s most, uh, complicated statues.

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1. One spring day 76 years ago, a Canadian medic leapt out of a plane high above Nazi Germany and began floating toward the ground. This is the story of Toppy Topham — and how he died.

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1. On this night 117 years ago, a police constable spotted flames rising out of a necktie factory in downtown Toronto. The Great Fire of 1904 had begun. Here's the story of the night our city burned…

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22. He was awarded the Victoria Cross — the highest military honour in the Commonwealth. (Nearly 60 years later, when it went up for auction, his old battalion raised hundreds of thousands of dollars to keep it in Canada. They gave it to the Canadian War Museum in Ottawa.)

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Made In Canada

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What’s the most iconic photo in Canadian history? 🤔 🇨🇦

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16. And Franklin didn't stop there, she campaigned for decades. Even after 9/11, she was out there giving interviews, arguing for peace while so many others were arguing for war. She passed away in 2016 at the age of 94 — having spent nearly her entire life fighting for peace.

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27. So when the Soviet submarine crew brought it back to the surface in 1987 & carefully cracked it open, they found Peuchen's things still inside it: A season’s pass for the Royal Canadian Yacht Club, traveller's cheques, business cards and 12 tickets for the Toronto streetcar.

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Protest vigil against the plan to punch a hole through Osgoode Hall’s famous 150 year-old fence & chop down many of the old trees standing behind it. Impressive turnout given that it’s minus a bazillion degrees! Here’s @marymargaretbey speaking to the frozenly determined crowd.

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1. One winter's day 78 years ago, Toronto was hit by the worst snowstorm in the city's history. It unleashed even more snow than we got today — and it killed 21 people. Here's the story of the Great Toronto Blizzard of 1944…

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