I'm researching 1920s circuses for a film today, and discovered the story of the Toronto Circus Riot, a pitched battle between firemen and clowns in a brothel that sounds like a lost silent movie: spacing.ca/toronto/2012...
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The Toronto Circus Riot of 1855 — the day the clowns picked the wrong Toronto brothel - Spacing Toronto
EDITOR: This is the second post of a new collaboration with the Toronto Dreams project by Adam Bunch (see the first here). The project is a series of postcards hidden around the city for people to ran...