by Brian Vallee
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3The centre, at 107 Cedarvale Avenue, celebrated its ninetieth anniversary in 1997.
4Marjorie Lamb and Barry Pearson, The Boyd Gang, pp. 8–9.
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5A pseudonym. Ed Boyd doesn’t remember his name.
6Pauline Kael, 5001 Nights at the Movies, p. 221.
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7Parole was then called ticket-of-leave.
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8Templeton later became an agnostic, and a successful fiction and non-fiction author, newspaper and magazine editor, and television news public affairs director.
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9Lamb and Pearson, The Boyd Gang, p. 16.
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10John D. (Jack) Webster was staff superintendent when he retired from the Toronto police force in 1988. He is now a historian with the Metropolitan Toronto Police Museum and Discovery Centre.
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11Lamb and Pearson, The Boyd Gang, p. 19.
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12Jocko Thomas, From Police Headquarters, p. 122.
13Val Sears, Hello Sweetheart … Get Me Re-Write, p. 17.
14Carlos Baker, Ernest Hemingway: A Life Story, p. 157.
15Val Sears, Hello Sweetheart … Get Me Re-Write, p. 18.
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16Decades later, the Ontario government purchased land for an airport at Pickering, but after much public opposition the project was mothballed.
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17After his retirement from the Toronto Police Department, Cater moved to Port Elgin, Ontario, where he was mayor from 1980 to 1985.
18Jocko Thomas, From Police Headquarters, p. 22.
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19Eric Arthur, Toronto: No Mean City, 1964, pp. 140–141.
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20The dictionary definition of Tong is ‘association’ or ‘secret society.’
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21Lamb and Pearson, The Boyd Gang, p. 104.
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22Creighton went on to be a founder and publisher of the Toronto Sun after the Telegram folded in 1971.
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23Douglas Creighton, Sunburned, p. 31.
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24Boyd always used “superintendent” instead of “governor.”
25Tupper Bigelow was a Sherlock Holmes authority and buff who donated his extensive collection on the fabled detective to the Metropolitan Toronto Reference Library.
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26Jocko Thomas, From Police Headquarters, p. 128.
27Jocko Thomas, From Police Headquarters, p. 129.
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28Malton Airport is now Lester B. Pearson International Airport.
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29Harold Adamson later became chief of the Metropolitan Toronto Police Department.
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30Ontario Chief Justice Roy McMurtry, Maclean’s, December 2, 1996, p. 85.
31Jack Batten, In Court, p. 137.
32Jack Batten, In Court, p. 147.
33Father Kelly later became president of St. Michael’s College.
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34Surname not used for reasons of anonymity.
35Surname not used for purposes of anonymity.
36Lamb and Pearson, The Boyd Gang.
37Val Sears, Hello Sweetheart … Get Me Re-Write, pp. 38–39.
Sources
The dialogue in this book was recreated as accurately as possible from statements to police, court transcripts, Royal Commission transcripts, first-person recollections of those still alive, and newspaper accounts of events.
The newspapers themselves were, of course, a part of the story, and coverage of the Boyd Gang saga by the three major Toronto newspapers of the day was rich in detail and captured the flavour of the time. I thank the dozens of reporters and editors, many of them now deceased, who brought the stories to life in such colourful fashion.
Other sources are listed in the Notes.
