The Victorian City · event 2 of 12

1850s

The Underground Railroad. Toronto is a terminus for people escaping slavery in the United States. The Anti-Slavery Society of Canada meets at St Lawrence Hall; Frederick Douglass speaks there.

The The Victorian City era

  1. 1849
  2. 1850s
  3. 1867
  4. 1884
  5. 1885
  6. 1894
  7. 1898
  8. 1899
  9. 1904
  10. 1918
  11. 1933
  12. 1942

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