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Dora Drummond, better known as Mama Chikie, became a go-go-dancing sensation on Yonge Street at more than 65 years old.
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Chris Bateman
Toronto was connected to the outside world for the first time 170 years ago this week.
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Chris Bateman
The adoption of the global time standard caused almost 20 minutes to completely vanish from Toronto clocks.
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Chris Bateman
Charles Vance Millar's bizarre and mysterious will promised a vast sum of money to the Toronto woman who gave birth to the most children within 10 years of his death. What followed was years of relentless baby-making and legal wrangling.
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Chris Bateman
For 32 years, starting in 1973, amateur athletes from Scarborough regularly tested their sporting prowess against the people of Indianapolis, Indiana.
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Chris Bateman
A Canadian-born athlete won the country's first Olympic gold medal in Paris in 1900, but no one realized.
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Chris Bateman
The violent murder of a young woman in the city's east end in 1935 shines a light on the lives of working women in during the Depression.
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Chris Bateman
The 1977 rape and murder of a 12-year-old boy on Yonge Street shocked the city and led to efforts to clean up the downtown strip. Warning: This story contains details that some readers may find upsetting or triggering.
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Chris Bateman
Seriously, how did they lose a gorilla?
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Chris Bateman
Before the Blue Jays' Ace and BJ Birdy, the city's first baseball mascot was a young Black boy named Willie Hume.
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Chris Bateman
Here's how they did it.
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Chris Bateman
A Canadian lawyer thought he had invented a ship that would slash ocean crossing times, end seasickness, and make him a millionaire. Ultimately, his unorthodox machine ended up abandoned in the Toronto Harbour.
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Chris Bateman
How one MPP tried (and failed) to get bawdy magazines banned from Toronto newsstands.
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Chris Bateman
We head underground to explore the nitty-gritty subway repairs the public seldom sees.
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Chris Bateman • Photos by Josh Allsopp and video by Giordano Ciampini
Sweet-toothed Toronto teens took a bite out of rising post-war candy prices in 1947, but the movement was quickly derailed by the Red Scare.
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Chris Bateman
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