As I was researching last week’s post, I stumbled across a fascinating letter published on this day 111 years ago. It came at a time when the city was growing into a modern metropolis — home to about 400,000 people — but was still an incredibly British place, run by a deeply conservative establishment. Prohibition was just a few years away. The Toronto Police Morality Squad still prowled the streets. Sundays were dead quiet. The old “Toronto The Good” was in full force. It was, in a lot of ways, a very different place from the Toronto we know today, and yet…
An Open Letter to Toronto from 1913
An Open Letter to Toronto from 1913
An Open Letter to Toronto from 1913
As I was researching last week’s post, I stumbled across a fascinating letter published on this day 111 years ago. It came at a time when the city was growing into a modern metropolis — home to about 400,000 people — but was still an incredibly British place, run by a deeply conservative establishment. Prohibition was just a few years away. The Toronto Police Morality Squad still prowled the streets. Sundays were dead quiet. The old “Toronto The Good” was in full force. It was, in a lot of ways, a very different place from the Toronto we know today, and yet…