Local businessmen & leaders wanted to celebrate this modern metropolis, so they seized upon an idea: a birthday party.
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It’s thanks to her work that I learned a whooole lot of this stuff.
(pics of the parade: @TorontoArchives)
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Or how a settler murdered Chief Wabakinine after he signed it.
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