In this day and age, it's hard for us to imagine an event like the Christie Pits riot.
But you know what they say about forgetting the past...
I follow a Facebook page called Vintage Toronto, which just posted this and called it the only known picture of the 1933 riot that lasted six hours and took place on our doorstep.
A battle between Gentiles and Jews, it happened in 1933 when anti-Semitism was on the rise around the globe.
This Wikipedia article puts the event in context.
Vanessa
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