The Massey Murder (37 page)

The
Telegram
’s state-of-the art printing presses.

Each evening, the unemployed desperately scanned the
Telegram
’s Want Ads.

On their return journey from the St. Louis World’s Fair in 1904, sixteen women reporters founded the Canadian Women’s Press Club and dedicated themselves to making journalism a more accessible profession for women. Mary Dawson Snider is standing fourth from left, their host George Ham fourth from right. Grace Denison and Kathleen Coleman missed the official photo session.

The back of City Hall directly overlooked the wretched slums of the Ward.

Immigrants from Eastern Europe crammed into the Ward’s rooming houses.

Residents of the Ward lived in poverty and squalor, but they could expect no help from the city’s health department.

Diseases such as tuberculosis were rife in overcrowded family homes.

The south end of Morley Avenue boasted better housing than the north end, where the Fairchilds lived, but cars were no match for its mud after a downpour.

Toronto’s policemen spent more time enforcing bylaws about public decency than chasing criminals.

Toronto Star
, Friday, February 26, 1915: At her murder trial, Carrie told a new story (
see top-right column
).

Canadian soldiers spent the winter in ankle-deep mud. An epidemic of spinal meningitis broke out.

Each Sunday, the Canadian troops attended a church service close to Stonehenge.

In February 1915, the next contingent of Canadian soldiers marched through downtown Toronto, before their departure for Europe.