Toronto Book of the Dead & The City's Morbid Past

With grisly tales of war and plague, duels and executions, people can learn a lot about Toronto through stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. This talk by Historian and author Adam Bunch delves into those tales – from the murder of Toronto’s first lighthouse keeper to the séances that grabbed headlines in the wake of the First World War – and how the city's shifting attitudes toward death have impacted the way Torontonians see their own history.