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100 unusual facts about Toronto


1880 Michigan Wolverines football team

On October 16, 1880, The Chronicle wrote that the Athletic Association's corresponding secretary was in correspondence with the football association at the University of Toronto concerning a game between the two schools.

1928 Okeechobee hurricane

It then moved inland and merged with a low-pressure system around Toronto on the 20th.

2014 Buffalo Bills season

:Note: The Bills will play one regular season home game at the Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, as part of the Bills Toronto Series.

Abolitionist Party of Canada candidates, 1993 Canadian federal election

A resident of Toronto, Pennington was unemployed at the time of the election and did not campaign actively.

Albert D. Shaw

He was appointed colonel of the Thirty-Sixth Regiment, New York National Guard, in 1867, and resigned to accept the position of United States consul at Toronto, Canada, in 1868.

Alexander Fraser Pirie

However, Pirie had a great desire to work as a journalist in a larger city, and two years later moved on to Toronto.

Anthony Stafford Beer

In the 1980s he established a second home on the west side of downtown Toronto and lived part of the year in both residences.

Arturo Brion

He also earned a Master of Laws, with concentration in Labor and Employment Law, from Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto, Canada, in 1994.

At the Purple Onion

It features Breau, Francks, and Henstridge with Joey Hollingsworth — one vocal and also tap dancing — performing at the Purple Onion club in Toronto, Canada.

AUMUND Fördertechnik

Already in 1975 the subsidiary “AUMUND do Brasil“ was established in Rio de Janeiro and „AUMUND International“ in Toronto.

Automatic Flowers

The video was filmed on July 15 of 1997 and consists of the band playing in a dimly lit room (a rehearsal space in Toronto).

Bahram Radan

Radan has left Iran and currently resides in Toronto, where he is recording music for his forthcoming album.

Battle Grand Prix

The courses also vary from blacktop to concrete, which lends to the feeling of driving in unique places like Toronto and Iceland.

Bernardo Padrón

After graduating from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Music Performance program in 1986, Bernardo played tenor and alto sax in the Toronto Latin musical community, as well as recording with various local jazz projects (Don Valley Parkway, Mosaic) as a sideman.

Booky's Crush

First announced in 2008, Booky's Crush is the third in a series of made-for-TV films about Beatrice 'Booky' Thomson, a little girl growing up in Toronto during the depression era.

Boris Hambourg

He appeared as a soloist in many different places before settling in Toronto, where he took part in founding the Hambourg Conservatory of Music (a private school which closed in 1951), and became its Director.

Call for Help

Taped in Toronto, Ontario, a new version of Call for Help made its G4techTV Canada debut on August 16, 2004, and quickly became the channel's highest rated series.

Chad Owens

In his second full season in Toronto Chad became the first player in professional football to record at least 3,000 combined yards in back to back seasons.

Christ and the Virgin Diptych

The original autograph diptych is lost, although numerous versions of generally rather poor quality survive including a near identical diptych in the Louvre and a similar diptych in Toronto.

Colin Tilney

In 1979 Tilney moved to Canada and settled in Toronto, where he continued to teach privately and at the Royal Conservatory of Music.

Constance Stone

She graduated from the Women's Medical College of Pennsylvania, and was awarded her MD from the University of Trinity College, Toronto.

Curse of 1940

Hence, the Rangers used Maple Leaf Gardens in Toronto as their "home ice" in the 1950 Stanley Cup Finals, a move that potentially cost the Rangers that year's Stanley Cup.

Diana Reader Harris

During the war she was evacuated with a group of pupils from Sherborne to Branksome Hall School in Toronto, Canada.

Dick Hutton

On November 14, 1957, in Toronto's Maple Leaf Gardens 10,000 people saw Hutton beat Thesz for the belt after 35:15, when Thesz submitted to an abdominal stretch.

Didi Seven

Throughout the 1990s Interwood retained Dr. J. W. Smith, professor and Chairman of the Department of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry for the University of Toronto to be a technical consultant, and to assist with developing appropriate manufacturing and quality protocols.

Don Murdoch

In the offseason in 1977 after his first season, Murdoch was caught by customs agents in Toronto with 4.5 grams of cocaine stashed in his socks.

Donald Ramsamooj

Donald Ramsamooj (born 5 July 1932, San Fernando, Trinidad, died 23 May 1993, Toronto, Canada) was a professional Cricketer who spent his career between Trinidad and Northamptonshire.

Donna Vakalis

She received a professional masters degree in architecture from the University of Toronto, and began PhD studies there in 2012.

Edward Donald Bellew

Edward Bellew's Victoria Cross is believed to have been stolen from the Royal Canadian Military Institute, Toronto, between January 1975 and 22 July 1977.

Epiphany and St. Mark, Parkdale

The cornerstone of the current building was laid by the Bishop of Toronto on October 11, 1880.

Ernest MacMillan Family Home

The Sir Ernest MacMillan family home is a Toronto heritage property located at 115 Park Road, in the Rosedale neighbourhood of Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Escott Loney

By 1933 Loney had moved to Toronto in Canada, and subsequently performed in various miscellaneous matches for Canadian sides.

Frederick Valentine Atkinson

Frederick Valentine Atkinson (Pinner, 25 January 1916 – Toronto, 13 November 2002) was a British mathematician, formerly of the University of Toronto, Canada, where he spent most of his career.

Fredric Tomczyk

Before that he served as vice chair of corporate operations for TD Bank Group, executive vice president of retail distribution for TD Canada Trust, and president and chief executive officer of wealth management for TD Bank.

Freedoms of the air

Anchorage is still used by some mainland Chinese and Taiwanese airlines for flights to the U.S. and Toronto until 2000s.

Gary Matthews

His previous broadcasting experience included two seasons as a radio broadcaster for the Toronto Blue Jays (2000–01) and serving as a baseball analyst on Headline Sports Television, a Canadian cable network based in Toronto.

George Knudson

He was buried at Mount Pleasant Cemetery in Toronto, Ontario.

George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre

The George Vari Engineering and Computing Centre is a 4 story building that is part of Ryerson University in Toronto, Ontario.

Gordon Giffin

He lived in Montreal and Toronto for 17 years, attending Valois Park Elementary School in Pointe Claire and Richview Collegiate in Etobicoke.

Great Synagogue, Jasło

The Forest Hill Jewish Centre has recently announced plans to rebuild the façade of the Jasło Synagogue as the façade of its new building on Spadina Road in Toronto, Canada.

Haydain Neale

On the morning of November 22, 2009, aged 39, Haydain Neale died of lung cancer at Toronto's Mount Sinai Hospital.

History of the Jews in Pakistan

Most of the Karachi Jews now live in Ramla, Israel, Mumbai, India and Toronto,Canada and built a synagogue they named Magen Shalome after the Pakistani Synagogue in Ramla.

Hjalmar Riiser-Larsen

Instead, he accompanied the Norwegian cabinet and military leaders into exile in London, before moving on to Toronto, Canada, to become the first commander of the Norwegian air forces' training camp, "Little Norway".

I Got Id

At Pearl Jam's May 10, 2006 concert in Toronto, Ontario, Canada at the Air Canada Centre, Vedder revealed that the song's chorus melody was inspired by the verse melody in Neil Young's "Cinnamon Girl" from the 1969 album, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere.

IBBY Canada

Members are invited to attend the annual general meeting, which is usually held in Toronto in February.

Jeffrey and Sloth

The book has come to life beyond the page, as a literacy play performed by Tickle Trunk Players in schools in Vancouver, Calgary, and Toronto.

Karl-Ludwig Barths

In 1963, Barths moved to Toronto in Canada where he was president of Volkswagen Canada Ltd.

Lake Country

Lake Country is in close proximity to Kelowna International Airport, which lies only 8 km to the south, and which provides regular service to major cities such as Vancouver, Victoria, Seattle, Los Angeles, Calgary, Edmonton, and Toronto.

Lawrence Kasha

Kasha had directed a season of summer stock productions at the Colonie Summer Theatre in Latham, New York in 1959, but his first major directing assignment came in 1962 with Guys and Dolls and The Most Happy Fella at the O'Keefe Center in Toronto.

Levi Lapper Morse

Morse was a devout member of the Primitive Methodist Church and was a delegate to its centenary conference in Toronto.

Lynne Scime

Scime's resignation followed a tumultuous year in the organization, during which there were irregularities regarding finances and a controversial move of REAL Women's offices from Toronto to Hamilton.

Michael Laughton

He attended King Edward VI Five Ways, a grammar school in Birmingham, moving to Canada, then went to the Etobicoke Collegiate Institute in Toronto.

Mike Feldman

Feldman was a chair of the Metro Housing Development Corporation, a public housing agency serving the second-tier municipality of Metropolitan Toronto, whose constituent municipalities would form the amalgamated city of Toronto in 1998.

In that year's municipal election, Feldman supported John Tory, a moderate conservative, for mayor.

Mike Knuble

Born in Toronto, Canada, Knuble was raised with younger brother Steve in Kentwood, Michigan by his Latvian-born parents, Aivars and Māra (Miesnieks) Knuble.

Montreal Maroons

However, while the Eagles had drawn very well, they survived only one season, due to the high costs of traveling to Boston, Montreal, and Toronto (the Eagles had assumed the Senators' place in the Canadian Division in defiance of all geographic reality).

MTI Countdowns

Prior to creating the MTI Countdowns, Toronto radio enthusiast, Jack Shi, was involved with making several YouTube videos under the name, Maytable Inc.

Music of British Columbia

It is also, like Toronto, a common destination for musicians from other parts of the country and from the United States.

Paul Mees

Mees's doctoral research was undertaken at the University of Melbourne and involved a comparison of public transport in Toronto and Melbourne.

Pegeen Vail Guggenheim

Despite a short career, Pegeen Vail Guggenheim exhibited her work in New York, Philadelphia, Paris, London, Venice, Padua, Murano, Palm Beach, Vincenzo, Stockholm, Toronto, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and at the Fine Arts Gallery of San Diego.

Penshurst Park

CricketArchive has recorded a number of matches played by a Penshurst club in the mid-19th century and one played by the modern Penshurst Park club against a visiting Toronto team.

PPI Motorsports

In 1996, they began the CART season with Jeff Krosnoff driving, but he died in a tragic accident during the Toronto street race.

Republic of Canada

The self-proclaimed government was established on Navy Island in the Niagara River in the latter days of the Upper Canada Rebellion after Mackenzie and 200 of his followers retreated from Toronto.

Richard H. Neiman

Immediately prior to joining the Banking Department, Mr. Neiman served as President and Chief Executive Officer of TD Bank USA, N.A., a wholly owned subsidiary of The Toronto-Dominion Bank.

Robert D. McChesney

, Religion, Customary Law, and Nomadic Technology (Toronto, 2000).

Rolling highway

This corridor is normally truck serviced on the Interstate 75, Ontario Highway 401, Quebec Autoroute 20 line, but this route becomes heavily congested in several areas, especially around Toronto and Montreal.

Royal Selangor

It exports to more than 20 countries, with retail outlets in London, Toronto, Melbourne, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Mumbai and Singapore.

Salvatore Pincherle

In 1924, he attended the Second International Congress of Mathematicians in Toronto, Canada.

Sam Pollock

Pollock died on August 15, 2007, at the age of 81 in Toronto, Ontario.

Samuel Schafler

In 1951, he married Sara (née Edell) of Toronto, then a student at the Teachers Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, where Schafler was studying for the rabbinate.

SARS coronavirus

The team was led by Dr. Marco Marra and worked in collaboration with the British Columbia Centre for Disease Control and the National Microbiology Laboratory in Winnipeg, Manitoba, using samples from infected patients in Toronto.

Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse

The first release of Seven Dumpsters and a Corpse outside of Switzerland was at the Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, April 2007, in Toronto.

Sever do Vouga Municipality

Martin Silva (born September 4, 1952 in Sever do Vouga), politician and radio personality in Toronto, Canada.

Shirley Hoy

Prior to her becoming the Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) of the City of Toronto, she held positions such as Director of Policy and Planning for the Community Services department; General Manager of Administration for Exhibition Place; and Executive Director for the Metro Chairman's Office.

Shoppers World

Shoppers World Danforth and Shoppers World Albion (now the Albion Centre), in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Simon and Monika Newbound

Their route went eastward from Sligo, Ireland to St. John's, Newfoundland, via Norway, Moscow, Siberia, Tokyo and Toronto, Canada.

Soběslav

Jaroslav Brodský ( 22. March 1920 - †12. August 1981 in Torontu-Canada); pedagogue - school director, „prisoner of the regime“ (1950–1960), founder of the K 231 organization, emigrant, publicist.

Spartanburg Day School

Examples of special studies activities include trips to Puerto Rico, Italy, Toronto, and working with Habitat for Humanity.

Stefano Cagol

He studied at the Institute of Art in Trento, the Academy of Fine Arts in Brera, Milan and at the Ryerson University in Toronto, where he was a post-doctoral fellow.

Stephen Arthur Jennings

He finished his high school education in Toronto and in Sept 1932 he went to University College in Toronto.

Stick to Your Vision

Most of the video was shot in Toronto's St. James Town neighbourhood, also featuring scenes in a hydro field.

Tanya Morgan

The group performed at Toronto's NXNE Festival with Nouveau Riche, and the Brooklyn Hip Hop Festival with Ghostface Killah, Large Professor, Consequence, and others.

Terri Dendy

In 1993, at the World Indoor Championships in Toronto, Dendy won a silver medal in the 4x400 m relay.

The Curious Case of Edgar Witherspoon

This was the first Twilight Zone aired to be shot in Toronto.

The International Tweexcore Underground

The video for the single was recorded at The Opera House in Toronto – a venue that Los Campesinos! would return to on April 1, 2009 as part of their North American tour.

The Marilyn Denis Show

The current program is produced in the same Toronto building (at 299 Queen Street West) in which CityLine was based during Denis's tenure, in the same studio as CityLine which was renovated specifically for the show.

The Ward

The Ward, Toronto, a neighbourhood in central Toronto that for several decades was the centre of the city's Jewish community

Thérèse Brisson

After the Olympics, she pursued a Masters Degree at York University in Toronto.

Toronto—Danforth

The NDP held the riding for the first nine years of its existence before Liberal Dennis Mills won the seat in 1988 and held it during the long period of Liberal dominance of the federal scene.

Toronto, Grey and Bruce Railway

The line was constructed by the English contractors Peto, Brassey and Betts, who undertook to raise the capital required in London if they obtained the contract.

Pihl had worked on the construction, under Robert Stephenson, of the first Norwegian trunk railway the Hovedbanen from Christiania (today Oslo) to Eidsvoll which opened in 1854 where the same issues of overbuilding a line in a small farming and fishing economy, had led to an unaffordable railway.

Toronto, Kansas

The town is named after the much larger Canadian city of Toronto.

Towel Day

In Ecuador, Radio City, a BBC affiliated radio station, interviewed one of the organizers of Towel Day in Toronto to introduce their listeners to Towel Day.

UFO sightings in Canada

According to the 2002 Canadian UFO Survey published by Ufology Research of Manitoba, Toronto had the largest number of sightings with 34, followed by Vancouver with 31 and Terrace, B.C. with 25 reports.

Very Much Live In Canada

Very Much Live in Canada features a mixture of sketches and serious monologues recorded in front of a live audience in Toronto, Canada and features of mix of new material and new versions previously released material.

What's for Dinner?

In September 2006, Evanov Radio Group announced that Kostick and Eustace would reunite as hosts of the morning show on CIRR-FM, that company's new LGBT radio station in Toronto.

Wilhelm Bach

He died after cancer surgery at Chorley Park military hospital in Toronto and was posthumously promoted to the rank of Oberstleutnant der Reserve.

William Peyton Hubbard

Losing an election in 1915, Hubbard retired to the Riverdale area of the city, building a home in which he would spend his remaining days until his death at the age of 93.

Willis McGahee

Following the 2006 season, after McGahee had made disparaging remarks about the city of Buffalo—including an implication that the Bills should move to Toronto—the Bills traded him to the Baltimore Ravens.

Ying Hope

Ying L.K. Hope P. Eng. (1923 – November 12, 2007) was a Chinese Canadian politician, Toronto Public School Board trustee and Metro Toronto Councillor and Toronto Alderman.


Actinolite, Ontario

Greyhound express buses between Toronto and Ottawa use Actinolite's Log Cabin Restaurant as a rest stop.

Air Hogs

Air Hogs is a line of toy airplanes, helicopters, rockets, and cars manufactured by the Spin Master company in Toronto, Canada.

Anoplophora

It is also common in some major cities in North America, including Toronto, Chicago, and New York City, where it has infested and damaged thousands of street and park trees.

Ayesha Gilani

Ayesha Gilani won the Miss Pakistan World title on the 23rd of June 2009 in Toronto, Canada, where the Miss Pakistan World pageant gets hosted every year, which was started by Sonia Ahmed.

Burke Moses

In 2008 Moses played the role of Captain von Trapp in Mirvish Productions' The Sound of Music at the Princess of Wales Theatre in Toronto alongside the winner of the TV show How Do You Solve a Problem Like Maria?, Elicia MacKenzie.

Ceuta Heliport

Destinations include more than one hundred cities in Europe (mainly in the United Kingdom, Central Europe and the Nordic countries) but also the main cities of Eastern Europe: Moscow, Saint Petersburg, Budapest, Sofia, Warsaw, Riga and Bucharest), North Africa, the Middle East (Riyadh, Jeddah and Kuwait) and North America (New York, Toronto and Montreal).

Chinoiserie

While classical styles reigned in the parade rooms, upscale houses, from Badminton House (where the "Chinese Bedroom" was furnished by William and John Linnell, ca 1754) and Nostell Priory to Casa Loma in Toronto, sometimes feature an entire guest room decorated in the chinoiserie style, complete with Chinese-styled bed, phoenix-themed wallpaper, and china.

CIRR-FM

The station will also fund a $5,000 annual scholarship to journalism, art or music students at Humber College and Carleton University, and a $30,000 stage showcase for musical artists at Toronto's Pride Week celebrations.

Clarence B. Farrar

Farrar's contributions to the field of psychiatry were recognized through honorary doctorates from McGill University and the University of Toronto, the Medal of Service of the Order of Canada from the Governor General of Canada, and the Distinguished Service Award of the Thomas W. Salmon Committee on Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene of the New York Academy of Medicine.

Club 6

The show was produced from a selected high school in Toronto.

Context Development

Ideal Lofts is a residential condominium low-rise building at 301 Markham Street at College Street in Trinity–Bellwoods and Little Italy, Toronto.

Ectaco

Within the next 2 years offices were opened in Germany (Berlin), Great Britain (London), the Czech Republic (Prague), Canada (Toronto), Poland (Warsaw) and Ukraine (Kiev).

Ed Ziemba

An outspoken and controversial politician, Ziemba spent six days in Toronto's Don Jail in 1977 for contempt of court when he refused to reveal his informant for allegations that the principals of Abko Laboratories were defrauding the Ontario Health Insurance Plan.

Frédéric Kibassa Maliba

In 1998, the Prospectors and Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) and Canada's Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade co-sponsored, under the organisation of Joe Clark, a visit by Kibassa as DRC Minister of Mines for meetings with mining companies at the PDAC's annual convention in Toronto.

Freeway removal

In Toronto, Ontario, the easternmost portion of the Gardiner Expressway (between Don Road and Leslie Street) was demolished in 2000, replaced with an at-grade urban boulevard with stop lights and railroad crossings, and a bike trail.

Georgians in Canada

Georgians have their Radio FM "Mamuli" which is covering Toronto and Vancouver.

Guy Delisle

Delisle studied animation at Sheridan College in Oakville, near Toronto, and then worked for the animation studio CinéGroupe in Montreal.

Illya Woloshyn

He started acting at a very young age, playing the role of Jacob in Jacob Two Two Meets the Hooded Fang at Young People's Theatre in Toronto, and later Gavroche in the original Toronto production of Les Misérables at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in 1988.

Jackie Duffin

Sorbonne, History and Philosophy of Science (PhD)
1985 Diplôme de l'Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IV Section, Paris
1983 D.E.A.Paris-I-Sorbonne, France
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Internal medicine
1979 F.R.C.P.(C) Hematology
1979 C.S.P.Q. Hématologie
1974 M.D. University of Toronto

Jesse Ceci

He was also concertmaster of four major ballet companies—the Pennsylvania Ballet from Philadelphia, the New York City Center Ballet, the Harkness Ballet of New York and the National Ballet of Canada in Toronto where he did all of the solo work for Rudolf Nureyev.

John Edmund Parry

In 1987, Parry was one of three New Democratic Party Members of Parliament (MPs) to heckle American President Ronald Reagan during an address by the president to the Canadian House of Commons (Toronto Star, 6 June 2004).

Media circus

Toronto mayor Rob Ford's life, including his usage of drugs and alcohol (2013).

Number nine

Number 9 Audio Group, a recording studio located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Peel County, Ontario

Village of Port Credit, in Toronto Township, named for French trading post Port-de-crédit.

Pierre Robineau de Portneuf

On 15 April 1750 the minister of Marine, Antoine Louis Rouillé, consenting to a request made by Governor Marquis de la Jonquière and Intendant François Bigot, granted permission to build a small fortified post at Toronto on the shore of Lake Ontario.

Porkbelly Futures

They are unique in that many of the members originally found success in other fields: former lead singer Paul Quarrington (1953-2010) was a writer and filmmaker; guitarist/harmonica player Stuart Laughton is a classical trumpet player with an international reputation as is bass player Chas Elliott (Toronto Symphony).

Railway Lands

The first railway, Ontario, Simcoe and Huron (OS&H) arrived in Toronto in 1853 with a station located near the current Union Station.

Ray Bellew

He was in CBC Toronto's production of Macbeth with Sean Connery, before the actor was to star in his first James Bond film.

Reid Jamieson

He performed the song live with Margo Timmins at the release at The Winter Garden Theatre in Toronto On Nov 22a and 23, 2013.

Riza Santos

Santos competed at the 2013 edition of Miss Universe Canada held in Toronto where she was hailed 1st Runner up to Denise Garrido.

Ronald Flemons

He was traded to the Saskatchewan Roughriders on March 5, 2008, along with Glenn January, Toronto's first round selection in the 2008 CFL Draft and Toronto's second round selection in the 2010 CFL Draft in exchange for Kerry Joseph and Saskatchewan's third round pick in the 2010 Canadian Draft.

Royal Flying Corps Canada

Training was provided both by the Curtiss Aviation School at Long Branch near Toronto (land plane training) and Hanlan's Point on Toronto Island (for flying boat training), and in the United States.

Starlight Investments

Starlight Investments is a Canadian real estate asset management company based in Toronto, Ontario.

Susan Fish

She ran for Bill Davis' Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario in the 1981 Ontario election and was elected as Member of Provincial Parliament (MPP) for the St. George constituency in downtown Toronto.

Swede Knox

Knox, as a linesman, later filled in as referee during a game in Toronto in the early 1990s, when Don Koharski couldn't finish the game and Kevin Maguire made his NHL officiating debut as a linesman.

The Newspaper

Film director Atom Egoyan, novelists Rohinton Mistry and Ray Robertson, and television public affairs host Steve Paikin all worked for The Newspaper as students while attending the University of Toronto.

Theodore Harding Rand

In 1885, he moved to Toronto to take a position at the Toronto Baptist College (created in 1881 through funding provided by William McMaster).

Tumbi

20 Inch by Master P (featuring Jamaican reggae artist Cutty Ranks and rap artist Kobra Khan) included tumbi played by Toronto, Ontario, Canadian native Shawn Ramta (grandson of the famous Punjabi folk singer, Hazara Singh Ramta).

Virgin Gaming

Virgin Gaming is a venture between WorldGaming.com and Virgin Group which was formed during June 2010 in Toronto.

W. D. Valgardson

Bloodflowers Sundary Matinee, Toronto, CBC radio, March 6, 1983