Posted on 29/12/05
Toronto gunplay redux: We now take you back to 1920
'It's getting more and more like the wild and woolly West, with revolvers being discharged in the streets. It isn't safe here."This statement was not made in the aftermath of the Boxing Day shootout on downtown Toronto's Yonge Street in which one innocent 15-year-old girl was killed and six other people were wounded. It was made on Jan. 7, 1920, by Toronto mayor Tommy Church to an assembly of First World War veterans at St. James Parish Hall. It is documentary proof that Toronto the Good "lost its innocence" (as one commentator has said of the recent shootings) a long time ago.
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