When St. Patrick's Day Was Too Dangerous for Toronto

With St. Patrick’s Day coming up this week, I thought I would dig into my archives and share an updated version of an old post about one of the strangest facts in our city’s history. For more than a century, the St. Patrick’s Day Parade wasn’t held in Toronto because it was simply too dangerous. The annual celebration was cancelled in the late 1800s and didn’t resume until the 1980s, when people…