Building entrance with the Types Riot plaque, 160 Frederick Street, February 6, 2022. Image by Herman Custodio.
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Resource ID
9792
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Open
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Image by Herman Custodio
Date of Creation
06 February 2022
Keywords
War and Conflict, Political History, Literature, Journalism
Program Category
Historical Plaques
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Herman Custodio
Caption
Building entrance with the Types Riot plaque, 160 Frederick Street, February 6, 2022. Image by Herman Custodio.
Description
The corner of King and Frederick Streets is a Toronto historic hotspot, once home to a modest log cabin that became the newspaper offices of William Lyon Mackenzie, the location of the first of William Davies meatpacking plants, and the resting place of Toronto’s first streetcars. Its journalistic past includes the 1826 Types Riot to understand which we travel farther back to 1817 when Samuel Jarvis challenged John Ridout to a duel; Ridout died. A decade later, William Lyon Mackenzie used his newspaper, the Colonial Advocate, to challenge government corruption. Among the reports was the Jarvis-Ridout duel, and allegations that Jarvis had gotten away with murder. In response, Jarvis waited until Mackenzie was out of town, got some of his friends together, and trashed the newspaper office. They stole all of the type face, carried it down to the lake, and threw it in the water.
Marker lat / long: 43.650291, -79.369252 (WGS84)