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From Flickr: “Water cart, used during period water intake pipe broken.” by Toronto Public Library Special Collections

In the summer of 1893, it was hot and it was dry. There was a drought, and that September the City’s water intake pipe broke. This meant that water had to be brought in by wagon—people would go out into the street to meet the wagon and fill their buckets, Read More →

From Flickr: “Water cart, used during period water intake pipe broken.” by Toronto Public Library Special Collections

In the summer of 1893, it was hot and it was dry. There was a drought, and that September the City’s water intake pipe broke. This meant that water had to be brought in by wagon—people would go out into the street to meet the wagon and fill their buckets, Read More →