Much to my surprise, there was a second Thirteen Club in Toronto. As mentioned in part 2 of this series, the 1911 Blue Book linked the Toronto Thirteen Club to the University of Toronto, simply by calling it “The Thirteen Club of Toronto University”. The Blue Book blew it. As […]
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In this post, I’ll give you some details of the sources I used in my search for members of the Thirteen Club. Many of the sources were new to me, and some were old standards but viewed through a different filter. I hope you’ll find them useful. Here’s a link […]
Just about 134 years ago, in mid November 1884, a group of eight young men met in Toronto to establish a club to encourage “the development of literary and musical tastes.” (A likely story.) They decided that the club would be limited to thirteen members—and be called the Thirteen Club. […]