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Historicist: Get Draper!
The scandal-plagued career of Toronto's "most incompetent and clownish" police chief.Jack MacDonald being arrested at a Communist meeting at Queen’s Park, October 12, 1929. From the City of Toronto...
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Historicist: Rise and Fall of the Brown Derby
Part One of a look at Toronto's Depression-era gambling kingpin, Manny Feder.Artist’s recreation of the police raid on the Brown Derby, from the Star (June 16, 1938). In the 1930s, if Torontonians...
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Historicist: “Ontario’s Public Enemy No. 1”
Part Two of a look at Toronto's late 1930s gambling kingpin, Manny Feder.Combine Club, located on the north side of the Queensway, near Highway 427, as it appeared in 1958. Photo by James V. Salmon...
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