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digital history project on lesser-known fights and feuds in Canadian history

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Thrashers/Sens Fight: Timothy Jay, via Flickr (Creative Commons License)

Crowd Watching Amateur Game: Libraries and Archives Canada, Box number: 2M DAP-13A.04, item number 3623805, circ. 1900

Rebel Hockey Group: Libraries and Archives Canada, item number 3422899, circ. 1894.

Amateur Game Outdoors: Libraries and Archives Canada, Box number: RV4 149, item number 3301509, circ. 1900

Hockey on Grenadier Pond: Libraries and Archives Canada, item number 3386146, circ. 1914

Maple Leaf Gardens Program Cover: Wikimedia Commons, circ. 1931

Ottawa Hockey Club: Libraries and Archives Canada, Accession number: 1971-049 NPC, item number 3653160, circ. 1914

Hockey Action: Libraries and Archives Canada, Box number: DND 011, item number 3614273.

Three Hockey Players in Korea: Libraries and Archives Canada, item number 3511511, circ. 1952

Image Credits: Hockey Fights

Michael Robideaux, "Imagining a Canadian Identity through Sport: A Historical Interpretation of Lacrosse and Hockey," The Journal of American Folklore, 2002-04, Vol.115 (456), p.209-22.

Ross Bernstein, The Code: Unwritten Rules of Fighting and Retaliation in the NHL, Triumph Books, 2006.

Varda Burstyn, The Rites of Men: Manhood, Politics, and the Culture of Sport, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1999.

Sources: Hockey Fights

Spectators at a Baseball Game at Willowvale Park [Christie Pits], May 13, 1922: City of Toronto Archives, Fonds 200, Series 372, Subseries 52, Item 1011.

Illustration of a Painting of “Hail Hitler” On the Roof of the Park's Clubhouse: Toronto Daily Star (1900-1971), Aug 15, 1933, pg. 2.

Photo of Swastika Gang members: The Toronto Daily Star, Aug 8, 1933, page 17.

Newspaper Clipping, "Swastika Badge Urged Removed By Police Officer," The Globe, Aug 8, 1933, p. 1.

[the only confirmed] Photo of the Riot: City of Toronto Archives, fonds 1266, Item 30791

"No Jews Wanted" sign, Jackson's Point, Ontario, 1938: Ontario Jewish Archives, item 1181.

Issue of the Canadian Jewish Chronicle detailing the riot, 25 Aug. 1933: Alex Dworkin Canadian Jewish Archives.

Image Credits: Christie Pits Riot

Sources and Image Credits

Christie Pits Riot 90th Anniversary Commemoration, The Ontario Jewish Archives: https://www.christiepitsriot.org/

Halpern, M. (2019). "The "Malestrom" at Christie Pits: Jewish Masculinity and the Toronto Riot of 1933." Canadian Jewish Studies Études Juives Canadiennes, 28(1). https://doi.org/10.25071/1916-0925.40141

Levitt, Cyril H and William Shaffir. The riot at Christie Pits (1st ed.). Toronto: Lester & Orphen Dennys, 1983. 

Sources: Christie Pits Riot

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UC During Construction: found in M. L. Friedland, The University of Toronto, Ont.: A History. University of Toronto Press, 2002, p. 78

Workers at UC: found in M. L. Friedland, The University of Toronto, Ont.: A History. University of Toronto Press, 2002, p. 79

Stone Gargoyles: Bernard Weil via the Toronto Star

All other photographs and drawings are my own, and may not be copied without permission.

Image Credits: Reznikoff and Diabolos

"And Growing Old Gracefully." The Varsity (Toronto, ON). University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Service. Oct 19th, 1959. 

Friedland, M. L. The University of Toronto, Ont.: A History. University of Toronto Press, 2002.

Goffin, Peter. "Demystifying the legendary ghost story at U of T’s University College" The Toronto Star (Toronto, ON). Jan 6, 2017. https://www.thestar.com/news/gta/demystifying-the-legendary-ghost-story-at-u-of-t-s-university-college/article_3d4f39f8-c2f7-5e19-9d03-69bc8d295ce0.html 

"Taylor Comments on Ghost Theme." The Varsity (Toronto, ON). University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Service. Oct 27th, 1947. 

Margot Almond, “UC Ghost is Due Tomorrow,” The Varsity. University of Toronto Archives and Records Management Service. October 27, 1978.

Sources: Reznikoff and Diabolos

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we all have beef with someone: digital history project on lesser-known fights and feuds in Canadian history

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