Historic records indicate that energetic earthquakes occur infrequently in the region, as with many other cities in the world, though Toronto was struck by a 5. 0 magnitude earthquake on June 23, 2010.

In 1954, Hurricane Hazel struck the Toronto area.

In 2003, Mochrie, Leslie Nielsen, Wayne Gretzky, and Roy Halladay appeared in print and television advertisements to encourage people to visit Toronto after the SARS outbreak that struck the city.

Similarly, in Toronto Electric Commissioners v. Snider, Lord Haldane struck down a federal statute attempting to regulate industrial disputes, holding that it was not within federal authority under either the peace, order and good government power, nor the federal trade and commerce power.

After causing 95 fatalities in the US, Hazel struck Canada as an extratropical storm, raising the death toll by 81 people, mostly in Toronto.

Campbell made a controversial call in 1939 when refereeing a game involving the Toronto Maple Leafs when defenceman Red Horner was struck with a stick and Campbell doled out only a minor penalty, even though Horner was bleeding.

The first manager was Toronto native and former Ottawa Senators player Bruce Ridpath, who had intended to be a playing-coach but was no longer able to play due to an injury suffered when he was struck by an automobile the previous year.

After the purchase, Jackson struck up a correspondence with the two Toronto artists, often debating on topics related to Canadian art.

The restored 35mm camera negative was deposited at the George Eastman House archive, and prints struck from it were shown at a number of film festivals in 1989 including the Toronto venue.

The Environment Canada weather forecast office in Toronto issued a tornado warning for Goderich and southern Huron County 12 minutes before the tornado struck.

In the second game, also in Montreal, Kennedy struck again only four minutes into the first period scoring the all-important first goal to put the Toronto ahead by 1 – 0.

Then tragedy struck when Buzz died in a motorcycle accident, on June 16, 1983, at the age of 33, just north of Toronto.

He struck out six batters, the most by a Toronto starter in a Major League debut at the time.

Lord Dorchester rejected this proposal, but he accepted Simcoe's second choice of Toronto.

Simcoe moved the capital to Toronto in 1793, renaming the settlement York after Frederick, Duke of York, George III's second son.

In 1992, reminiscent of the resurgence which greeted Trebelhorn's arrival in 1987, the Brewers rallied behind the leadership of rookie manager Phil Garner and posted their best record since their World Series year in 1982, finishing the season 92 – 70 and in second place, four games behind that year's eventual World Champion Toronto Blue Jays.

In 2009, the University of Toronto began offering all Options of study in Engineering Science as degrees, bringing the second nanoengineering degree to Canada.

Confirming an announcement from Richard Chycki via Twitter on December 20, Rush entered Revolution Recording studios in Toronto, Ontario, following completion of the tour's second leg, to finalize the recording of Clockwork Angels.

By the second half of the nineteenth century, bustling Chinatowns were also established in Vancouver, New York City, Chicago, Toronto, Boston, Philadelphia, Detroit, and Montreal.

Toronto Leather Pride takes place the second weekend in August.

After winning his second World Series ring with Toronto, he re-signed as a free agent with Oakland in December 1993.

A second convention, Ditto, started in Toronto in 1988.

The new board's first act was to take applications for " second " television stations in Halifax, Montreal ( in both English and French ), Ottawa, Toronto, Winnipeg, Calgary, Edmonton and Vancouver in response to an outcry for an alternative to the CBC's television service.

After a loss to the Bruins in the 1928 – 29 finals and a few mediocre seasons in the early 1930s, the Rangers, led by brothers Bill and Bun Cook on the right and left wings, respectively, and Frank Boucher at center, would defeat the Toronto Maple Leafs in the 1932 – 33 best-of-five finals, three games to one, to win their second Stanley Cup, exacting revenge on the Leafs ' " Kid line " of Busher Jackson, Joe Primeau, and Charlie Conacher.

It was too late for Toronto, as the Hawks won their second championship.

Following their victory over the Flames, the Canucks then went on to defeat both the Dallas Stars and Toronto Maple Leafs ( both in five games ) en route to the franchise's second Stanley Cup Finals appearance.

In the second round, the Sharks had a 3 – 2 series lead over the Toronto Maple Leafs but lost the final two games in Toronto, including an overtime loss in Game 6.

In January 1988, Irving travelled to Toronto, Canada to assist Douglas Christie, the defence lawyer for Ernst Zündel at his second trial for denying the Holocaust.

Winfield was struggling while the Yankees eventually lost a pennant to Toronto on the second to last day of the season.

Toronto contains the second largest concentration of high-rise apartment buildings in North America ( after New York ).

* James van Riemsdyk ( born 1989 ), drafted second overall in the 2007 NHL Entry Draft, he has played for the Philadelphia Flyers and Toronto Maple Leafs.

At the general election which followed, the Governor General was sustained by a narrow majority, but in 1848 the Reformers were again returned to power, and he and Lafontaine formed their second administration on March 11 under Lord Elgin and carried numerous important reforms, including the freeing from sectarian control of the University of Toronto and the introduction into Upper Canada of an important municipal system.

Camby was selected second overall in the first round of the 1996 NBA Draft by the Toronto Raptors.

The Cranberries recorded Roses at the Metalworks Studios in Toronto ( Canada ) from 18 April to 15 May 2011 with producer Stephen Street, who previously collaborated with the band on first, second and fifth albums.

The second round would see the top two in the Division as the Battalion faced Toronto.

For the second straight year in round 2 the Battalion would have to face the Eastern Conference Champions, the Toronto St. Michaels Majors.

In 1995, Williams played three more events as a wild card, falling in the first round of the tournament in Los Angeles and the tournament in Toronto but reaching the quarterfinals of the tournament in Oakland, defeating World No. 18 Amy Frazier in the second round for her first win over a top 20 ranked player before losing to Magdalena Maleeva.

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.

Born Joseph Aloysius Dwan in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Dwan moved with his family to the United States when he was 11 years old.

Until 2007, when Victoria administration made it co-ed, Gate House was one of the last remaining all-male residence building in the University of Toronto.

Famous crokinole player and analyst, Eric Miltenburg of Toronto referred to the " Eagan-Fitzgerald Cabal " of the 1940s, when the two families shared their playing secrets with each other.

The origins of Labour Day in Canada can be traced back to December 1872 when a parade was staged in support of the Toronto Typographical Union's strike for a 58-hour work-week.

MLB would not return to Seattle until 1977 when the Mariners entered the AL, along with the Toronto Blue Jays.

The capital moved from Montreal to Toronto in 1849 when rioters, spurred by a series of incendiary articles published in The Gazette, protested the Rebellion Losses Bill and burned down Montreal's parliament buildings.

Twain's first break finally came on February 8, 1987, when Bell staged a fundraiser for the National Aboriginal Achievement Foundation at the Roy Thomson Hall in Toronto where Twain performed with Broadway star Bernadette Peters, jazz guitarist Don Ross, and the Toronto Symphony Orchestra.

Until 2007, when Victoria administration made it co-ed, Gate House was one of the last remaining all-male residence building in the University of Toronto.

However, he performed very well in the playoffs, notably when he scored a hat trick in game seven of the Campbell Conference Finals against the Toronto Maple Leafs.

Although Molitor wanted to remain with Milwaukee when he became a free agent after the 1992 season, the franchise offered him a one year contract with a $ 900, 000 pay cut ( to $ 2. 5 million ), while the Toronto Blue Jays offered a three-year, $ 13 million ($ in current dollar terms ) deal, leading to his signing with the defending World Series champion Blue Jays.

While praising the film's first two hours as " compelling ", the Toronto Star remarked, " But when Cameron takes the adventure to the next step, deep into the heart of fantasy, it all becomes one great big deja boo.

He was killed in the summer when he crashed heavily at turn 2 at Mosport Park of Bowmanville near Toronto, Ontario, Canada, during the Budweiser 1000 km World Endurance Championship event, driving a Porsche 962C for Kremer Racing with co-driver Marc Surer.

In 1983, he made a rare stage appearance when he starred in the thriller Underground at the Royal Alexandra Theatre, Toronto and after a UK tour, at the Prince of Wales Theatre, London.

The contemporary breed of Sphynx ( known also as the Canadian Sphynx, distinct from the Russian Sphynx breeds — Peterbald, Don Sphynx ) started in 1966, in Roncesvalles, Toronto when a hairless kitten named Prune was born.

In 1977, the league expanded to fourteen teams, when the Seattle Mariners and Toronto Blue Jays were enfranchised.

In 1993 Henderson was having another outstanding season when he was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays at the trade deadline.

The younger Bassett himself had been mulling starting his own professional football league when he happened to meet Davidson and was given a franchise for Toronto.

Davidson's league garnered major publicity when the Toronto Northmen, led by John F. Bassett, signed three Miami Dolphins players, fullback Larry Csonka, halfback Jim Kiick, and wide receiver Paul Warfield to what was then the richest three-player deal in sports, an astounding US $ 3. 5 million to start in 1975.

On December 13, 1929, the New York Rangers became the first team in the NHL to travel by plane when they hired the Curtiss-Wright Corporation to fly them to Toronto for a game against the Toronto Maple Leafs which they would lose 7-6.

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

From 1980 to 1992, the ceremony was held at various different locations in Toronto, except for 1986, 1987 and 1991 when the ceremonies were held in Vancouver, Detroit and Ottawa respectively.

He took a job with Independent Telephone Company, which manufactured radios, and left that job and university when his father — the sports editor of the Toronto Daily Star — told him that the Star was going to start its own radio station.