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7-day work week just a bit too much
February 6, 1902. The normal six-days-a-week of work (usually 12 hours a day) is fine, but seven-days-a-week just isn’t Christian, according to the London, Ontario, Advertiser.
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The scandals and charity of evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson
February 5, 1929. Vancouver Sun. “Los Angeles gasped at the costumes worn” by Ontario-born Pentecostal evangelist, radio preacher and faith healer Aimee Semple McPherson when she testified before a committee of the California legislature during impeachment hearings of state Supreme Court Judge Carlos Hardy, the Sun reported. McPherson had given Hardy a $2,500 cheque, an alleged “love offering.”
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Klondike nuggets From the wild north
February 3, 1899. Doings in Dawson City, the Yukon gold rush capital, as reported in the Dawson Nugget and summarized in the Toronto Leader, Toronto, February 3, 1899.
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One Madison at Forty Mile was picked up at night in the bottom of a slough... Hands and feet were frozen, and both had to be removed, leaving a helpless trunk. The poor fellow was heartbroken and at last accounts was refusing food with the intention of ending his life.
My broken heart climbs the CN Tower
Every year, thousands of people, from eight to 85, climb the 1,776 steps up Toronto's CN Tower in fund-raising events for worthy causes. In April, more than 6,200 climbed for the World Wildlife Fund. On October 24 and 25, Saturday and Sunday, 12,000 climbed for Toronto's United Way.
People who are blind, who are paraplegics, who have cancer or diabetes, have climbed to the top. Plus at least one person with an impaired heart - me - and undoubtedly many other troubled hearts. In 2002, World Champion Paralympian Jeff Adams climbed the Tower in a wheelchair. (In 1988, two men hauled a stove and a refrigerator to the top; in 1989, a crew from General Motors hauled up a car, piece by piece).
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Canadians flocked in large crowds to witness public hangings in Canada in the early 19th century. When hangings were no longer public, eager spectators climbed telephone poles and lined rooftops to peer over prison walls. At a double hanging of lovers found guilty of murdering the wife's husband, a mob of 2,000 rioters tried to break down the prison gates to see the hanging.