Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

The Toronto Blue Jays are the only team to have never played in the ALDS and are the last team to win the World Series under the old 4 division format.

The Lions also played a test against Canada on their way home, winning 19 to 8 in Toronto.

The first documented gridiron football match was a game played at University College, a college of the University of Toronto, November 9, 1861.

* 2008 – The first NFL game is played in Canada at Rogers Centre in Toronto as the Buffalo Bills defeated the Miami Dolphins 16 – 3.

* 1861 – The first documented football match in Canada is played at University College, University of Toronto.

* 1946 – The New York Knicks played against the Toronto Huskies at the Maple Leaf Gardens, in the first Basketball Association of America game.

On November 1, 1946, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, the Toronto Huskies hosted the New York Knickerbockers at Maple Leaf Gardens, in a game the NBA now regards as the first played in its history.

He also played at the two Days of Blues Festival in Toronto in 1974.

The Gretzkys won, and Wayne played Junior B hockey with the Toronto Nationals.

Walter Gretzky had played Junior B hockey, but was slowed by chicken pox and failed in a tryout for the Junior A Toronto Marlboros, ending his playing career.

Matches were played in Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto, London, New York, Philadelphia and Boston.

In June 2010, X played a free show at the North by Northeast Festival ( NXNE ) in Toronto, ON, Canada, and on June 18, 2011 the band headlined the 3rd Annual Johnny Cash Music Festival in Ventura, CA, USA.

During his 21-year baseball career, he played for the Milwaukee Brewers ( 1978 – 1992 ), Toronto Blue Jays ( 1993 – 1995 ), and Minnesota Twins ( 1996 – 1998 ).

Crafts keep himself busy playing for the Arena Football League's New Jersey Red Dogs then played for the CFL's Toronto Argonauts in 2000 before joining the XFL's LA Xtreme

Most notably, Bassett's Toronto Northmen were forced to find a new home after the Canadian government threatened to ban any American football team from competing with the Canadian Football League ( despite the fact that the Toronto Rifles of the Continental Football League had played in Toronto just seven years prior ); though the Canadian Football Act never passed, the mere threat of it prompted Bassett to move the team to Memphis, where they became the Memphis Southmen, but were generally referred to by fans, local media, and even some official team materials as the " Grizzlies ".

They played their first game on November 17 when they played the Toronto St. Patricks in the Chicago Coliseum.

She was played in Toronto by Monigue Lund and in London by Alexandra Bonnet.

Olerud played with the Toronto Blue Jays ( 1989 – 96 ), New York Mets ( 1997 – 99 ), Seattle Mariners ( 2000 – 2004 ), New York Yankees ( 2004 ) and Boston Red Sox ( 2005 ).

A left winger, Henderson played 13 seasons in the National Hockey League ( NHL ) for the Detroit Red Wings, Toronto Maple Leafs and Atlanta Flames and 5 in the World Hockey Association ( WHA ) for the Toronto Toros and Birmingham Bulls.

Born the same year her father first became leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada, Catherine Clark attended Elmwood School in Rockcliffe Park, Ottawa as well as Neuchâtel Junior College in Neuchâtel, Switzerland prior to pursuing studies in Art History at the University of Toronto.

* 20 – 30 March — Toronto Arenas ( NHL ) defeats Vancouver Millionaires ( PCHA ) in the 1918 Stanley Cup Finals by 3 games to 2

* 17 – 28 March — Toronto St. Pats defeats Vancouver Millionaires in the 1922 Stanley Cup Finals by 3 games to 2

Toronto won the NHL playoff and then won the Stanley Cup by defeating the PCHA's Vancouver Millionaires three games to two in a best-of-five series

His father, Bert Lindsay, had been a professional player himself, playing goaltender for the Renfrew Millionaires, Victoria Aristocrats, and Toronto Arenas.

The Capitals then faced the Vancouver Millionaires of the PCHA to determine who would go on to face the Toronto St. Patricks of the NHL for the Stanley Cup.

Teddy Oke's Kitchener Millionaires moved to Toronto to take the place of the Toronto Ravinas which disbanded in 1928.

The team included players from the Millionaires that did not move to Toronto.

* Toronto Millionaires: 1928-29, joined the IHL in 1929

Completing the season in Toronto, Crawford and the Arenas won the Stanley Cup, defeating the Pacific Coast Hockey Association's Vancouver Millionaires in a five-game series.

Vancouver Millionaires Manager Lester Patrick gave permission to Toronto to use Gerard to replace their injured player.

Holmes coached minor-league teams after his retirement, notably the Toronto Millionaires, of the Canadian Professional Hockey League ( CPHL ) and the Cleveland Indians of the International Hockey League ( IHL ).

He coached the Toronto Millionaires, of the Canadian Professional Hockey League ( CPHL ) to a 19 – 6 – 7 record in the 1928 – 29 season, and the Cleveland Indians of the International Hockey League ( IHL ) to a 24 – 18 – 6 record in the 1930 – 31 season.

Though MacKay was held out as a star of the series, the Millionaires were defeated by the National Hockey League ( NHL )' s Toronto Arenas in the fifth and deciding game of the series.

Julius Francis " Pembroke Peach " Nighbor ( January 26, 1893 in Pembroke, Ontario – April 13, 1966 in Pembroke, Ontario ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Ottawa Senators of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) and National Hockey Association ( NHA ) and Toronto Maple Leafs of the NHL, Toronto Blueshirts of the NHA and Vancouver Millionaires of the Pacific Coast Hockey Association ( PCHA ).

He only played the one season in Toronto, jumping to Vancouver of the PCHA the following season for two seasons, and was an important member of the Millionaires team which won the Stanley Cup over the Ottawa Senators in 1915.

Gloria ( surname: Ziraldo ), circa 30, who was born in Italy and once did `` chorus work '' in Toronto, has been around longer than most of the others, wistfully remembers the old days when `` we used to get the seamen from the ships, you know, with big turtleneck sweaters and handkerchiefs and all.

Tractor production at Massey-Ferguson, Ltd., of Toronto in July and August rose to 2,418 units from 869 in the like period a year earlier, says John Staiger, vice president.

Ontario's foliage is most vivid from about Sept. 23 to Oct. 10, with both Muskoka ( 100 miles north of Toronto ) and Haliburton ( 125 miles northwest of Toronto ) holding color cavalcades starting Sept. 23.

Category: Writers from Toronto

Eckstein was traded from the Toronto Blue Jays for Minor League pitcher Chad Beck.

Category: People from Toronto

He received a Bachelor of Arts from Victoria College at the University of Toronto.

Greek Corinth ian-style Corinthian helmet | helmet and the skull reportedly found inside it from the Battle of Marathon, now residing in the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto.

coalition and the Toronto Public Space Committee are examples of activist networks committed to shielding local communities from government and corporate domination and inordinate influence.

According to a group of astronomers at the University of Toronto and elsewhere, the observations of this supernova are best explained by assuming that it arose from a white dwarf which grew to twice the mass of the Sun before exploding.

The earliest known Wiccan version is found in a document dating from the late 1940s, Gereald Gardner's ritual notebook titled Ye Bok of Ye Art Magical ( fomerly in the collection of Ripley's International, Toronto ).

Montreal and Toronto were well suited to benefit from the development of large-scale manufacturing and extensive railway systems in Quebec and Ontario, these being the goals of the Macdonald and Laurier governments.

In 1992, Superman co-creator Joe Shuster told the Toronto Star that the name derived from 1930's cinematic leading men Clark Gable and Kent Taylor, but the persona from bespectacled silent film comic Harold Lloyd and himself.

Unitarians, most notably Toronto ministers, generated considerable media attention from the centre of Canada ’ s English-language media.

Category: People from Toronto

In the " expansion season " of 1967 – 68, the Red Wings also acquired longtime star left-winger Frank Mahovlich from the defending Cup champs in Toronto.

Needing a new starting goaltender after Hasek's retirement, the Red wings signed Curtis Joseph from the Toronto Maple Leafs to a three year, $ 24 million deal.

Evil Dead: The Musical ran in Toronto from May 1, 2007 to August 2, 2008.

Many design ideas for the language came from Craig's Master's Thesis in Computer Science at the University of Toronto.

Toronto also has the largest amount of film festivals in the world, ranging from cultural, independent, and historic films.

Freestyle's popularity spread outward from the Greater Toronto Area's Italian and Greek populations in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

In 1972, William J. Samarin, a linguist from the University of Toronto, published a thorough assessment of Pentecostal glossolalia that became a classic work on its linguistic characteristics.

Category: Musicians from Toronto