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enthusiast and was a founding member and charter director of the Canadian Standardbred Horse Society in 1909 and served as the society's president in 1919 and 1920. He was also a founding director of the Canadian National Trotting and Pacing Harness Horse Association. In 1907, McBride drove his King
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recalled that as an alderman, McBride had a terrible temper. He once got into a fist fight with a fellow alderman and once threw a can of beans at alderman Joe Beamish, missing Beamish, but leaving a dent in the panelling of the council chamber. In 1935, he was instrumental in stopping the building
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and overseeing early development of the city's waterfront. He was considered a candidate of the workers and was supported by the left-leaning
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attributes the Commission's decision to ban all public meetings held in languages other than English to McBride and his concern about Jewish
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serving his first term from 1928 to 1929 and his second term in 1936 which ended prematurely due to his death. He was also a member of the
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during his time in politics. On city council he was one of the main proponents of an eight-hour work day and giving women the vote.
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McBride died on 14 Nov 1936, the first Toronto mayor to die in office. McBride's body was placed at the base of the staircase at
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operating from downtown Toronto to the Toronto Island was named after him in 1939, and is still in service as of 2013.
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in Toronto's Garment District. "Like all mayors at that time", says Horn, "McBride was strongly pro-British and
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Bryson to a world record of 2:19½ for trotters over a half-mile track on ice at
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In recognition of his service to the Toronto Island community, one of the
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He ran unsuccessfully for mayor three times before being elected in the
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of a tunnel to the Toronto Island that was intended to facilitate an
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Picture of McBride's portrait painted by John Russell
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Among his accomplishments are helping to create the
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He made his fortune in the 198:Businessman (lumber industry) 306:Canadian National Exhibition 1022:Businesspeople from Toronto 30:For the soccer player, see 1053: 302:Toronto Transit Commission 277:. He was then defeated by 29: 983: 612: 518:Gibson(1984), pp. 192-193 444:Cite uses generic title ( 202: 144: 109: 74: 62: 50: 411:. He was 70 years old. 250:industry. He became an 556:Gibson, Sarah (1984). 462:January 2, 1928. pg. 6 273:, defeating incumbent 254:in 1905 and served on 242:) and was a committed 217:Orange Order in Canada 362:Plattsburgh, New York 1027:Canadian Protestants 293:and former alderman 289:defeating incumbent 260:Palmerston Boulevard 256:Toronto City Council 209:Sam (Samuel) McBride 32:Sam McBride (soccer) 558:More Than an Island 509:Gibson(1984), p.150 500:Gibson(1984), p.134 460:Toronto Daily Star. 355:McBride was also a 36:Sam McBride (ferry) 27:Canadian politician 311:Toronto Daily Star 139:William D. 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Index

Samuel McBride
Sam McBride (soccer)
Sam McBride (ferry)

Mayor of Toronto
Thomas Foster
Bert Wemp
James Simpson
William D. Robbins
Toronto
Canada West
Mayor of Toronto
Orange Order in Canada
Toronto
Irish
Protestant
County Antrim
Orangeman
lumber
alderman
Toronto City Council
Palmerston Boulevard
Toronto Island
1928 election
Thomas Foster
Bert Wemp
1930 election
1936 election
James Simpson
Harry W. Hunt

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