40 in the shade: Toronto's worst heatwave - Spacing Toronto

For an excruciating week in July, 1936, Toronto, the province, and much of Canada burned. An unprecedented and deadly continent-wide heatwave forced temperatures into the low- to mid-40s, killing hundreds, incinerating food crops, and forcing many more from their homes to sleep in parks, beaches, an…


40 in the shade: Toronto's worst heatwave - Spacing Toronto
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