![]() Popular Toronto blogs such as and have written about the “great” Toronto snowstorm of 1944. Looking back, one learned that twenty-one (21) people ultimately died as a result of the storm that dropped 57 centimetres (cm) of snow over a two-day period. ![]() Since that fateful storm, Torontonians and the Toronto media remember the 1944 storm and proceed to remind us about it from time to time as demonstrated by articles in/on: Toronto Star (2014), Toronto Sun (2014), CTV News Toronto (2015), CityNews (2012), CBC News (2013), and. To view this article in full, please access the Globe and Mail Historical Newspaper Archive database with a valid Toronto Public Library card. The department began to remove snow from the downtown area yesterday, and will continue the work today…” For the first time this winter, sweepers and sanders were working on grades and car lines…The Toronto Street Cleaning Department had 137 men and 27 trucks out last night, and crosswalks, hills and curves on all main arteries were being sanded, Street Cleaning Commissioner Harold Bradley said. “…After a few hours’ lull in the early evening, the storm returned with increased fury, and what was described as a “young blizzard” struck parts of the city, adding further to traffic difficulties…Numerous minor traffic accidents were reported, while street car traffic was delayed on several lines, mostly due to skidding and stalled automobiles and trucks. Here are some excerpts from this article: of the Decemissue of the Globe and Mail newspaper offered readers an article with the following headline: “One Dead, Many Injured as Snowstorm Result”. To view the articles in full, please access the Toronto Star Historical Newspaper Archive database with a valid Toronto Public Library card. We hope to do this by night…The trouble is to get our men on the job, and a lot of our plows are stuck in the drifts’ said Mr. Taylor asked for anybody above 16…said that it will take at least three days to dig Toronto out to normal…’Every effort,’…’will be made at once to clear the main city thoroughfares and intersections. On account of the emergency, Selective Service gave a blanket permission for anybody to volunteer without a permit and accept work. Taylor, deputy street cleaning commissioner. “.An appeal for volunteers to clean city streets on behalf of the city and the T.T.C. The article continued on page 10 of the Decemissue of the Toronto Daily Star, including the following section: ‘We want all available transportation facilities to bring war workers and others to their jobs,’ he said…” All other traffic was stopped as if by a giant hand, with essential deliveries of bread, milk and other foodstuffs either stopped entirely or carried out on a restricted emergency basis…Mayor Conboy broadcast an appeal urging workers to stay home unless their jobs were of an essential nature. Commencing Monday evening, a light, drifting snow increased in intensity in the small hours of Tuesday morning and was continuing unabated this afternoon…Only main lines of the Toronto Transportation Commission remained open and those with the greatest difficulty. ![]() “Nine people are dead and 21 inches of snow has fallen to noon in the worst snowstorm Toronto has ever experienced…The city is tied up – almost strangled. Underneath the large headline, readers read the following headline: Toronto Citizens Die in Mountainous Drifts: Whole City Stopped as if by a Giant Hand – Snow 21 Inches by Noon and Is Still Falling Heavily”. The front page banner headline of the Toronto Daily Star newspaper on Decemread in bold print: “NINE DIE IN TORONTO BLIZZARD 21-INCH SNOWFALL IS RECORDED”. Let us look back to December 11-12, 1944 when Toronto experienced the worst snowstorm in its history. The weather in December reminds Torontonians that winter is on the way, if it has not already arrived in some instances over the years. ![]()
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