Toronto City Council with biographies of the Mayor, Aldermen (including John Knox Leslie, son of George Leslie, Toronto Nurseries, Blong of Blong Avenue, etc.) and leading City Officials (including John Jones of Jones Avenue and Richard T. Coady of Coady Avenue)
Category Archives: Politicians
January 28 in Leslieville: the Brook’s Bush Gang
Well, she picked the wrong victim. If you are a smart robber, you don’t mess with the press and you don’t mess with influential politicians. She killed John Sheridan Hogan, a member of the provincial legislature and newspaperman. But this wasn’t the first murder she was involved in, and we know of others.
Leslieville Historical Society 