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Marvellous Mmmuffins, also known as mmmuffins, was a Canadian restaurant chain that sold coffee and muffins from 1979 until it closed in 2020. OS16094

The Crawlspace launched on April 4, 1994, airing nonstop episodes of various series with a host block between each episode.  OS16095

Club Rockit (or The Rockit) was a punk venue in Toronto, Canada, located on Church Street in Downtown Toronto. OS16096

SkyDome opened in 1989 as the new home of Toronto's baseball and football teams. The city's basketball team played there from 1995 to 1999 while a new arena was being built downtown. The football team got the boot in 2015, leaving the baseball team...

The Guvernment, formerly known as RPM, was a nightclub complex in Toronto that opened in 1996 and closed in 2015.  OS16093

Did you survive the Blizzard of '78? Known throughout the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region as the Great Blizzard of 1978 and the White Hurricane, the storm blasted the area from Wednesday, January 25 through Friday, January 27, 1978. The cities of Milwaukee,...

In 1993, finished with a record of??95 wins and 67 losses. They won their second consecutive championship and remain one of the most beloved sports teams in Canadian history.

Canada's Sam the Record Man, not to be confused with U.S.-bases Sam Goody, was founded in 1937 by Sam Sniderman. Originally it was the phonograph records department of his parents store on Yonge St. in Toronto. It grew to become the country's largest music...

Don't mess with these legacy Toronto ballplayers - Cavan Biggio, Bo Bichette. and Vladimir Guerrero Jr.?? ?? *Product is officially licensed by the Major League Baseball Players Association

Hockey Night in Canada traces its roots back to 1931 and Saturday night radio broadcasts of NHL hockey. It came to television in 1952. It is one of the most iconic sports television sports events in the world, pre-dating Monday Night Football in the...

Burger Chef was a fast-food hamburger chain that started in Indianapolis in 1958. At its peak in the mid 1970s, it was second only to McDonald's in the number of nationwide locations in the U.S. In the early '70s, it attempted to enter the...

After only one season, the Ottawa Nationals relocated to Toronto in 1973 for the??second season of the??World Hockey Association (WHA). As the Toronto Toros they found success on the ice and at the gate, making the playofffs in their first two seasons in their...

Encouraged by the initial success of his American Basketball Association (ABA), which challenged the National Basketball Association (NBA), Gary Davidson and his cohorts turned their attention to hockey. On November 1, 1971, Davidson announced the formation of the World Hockey Association (WHA) to challenge...

Encouraged by the initial success of his American Basketball Association (ABA), which challenged the National Basketball Association (NBA), Gary Davidson and his cohorts turned their attention to hockey. On November 1, 1971, Davidson announced the formation of the World Hockey Association (WHA) to challenge...

The??Toronto Rifles??were a minor-league professional??American football??team that played in the Continental Football League between 1964 and 1967. The team's home fields were??Maple Leaf Stadium??(1965)??and??Varsity Stadium??from 1966 to 1967. The team was owned by Montreal businessman Johnny Newman.

The Toronto Phantoms played in the Arena Football League??from 2001 to 2002. The team started in 1997 as the New York CityHawks. In 1999, the team moved to Hartford and became the New England SeaWolves, before moving to Ontario in 2001.

Charter members of the World Football League (WFL) in 1974, the Memphis Southmen began as the Toronto Northmen. However, before the team could play a down, the Canadian government passed legislation to block any U.S.-based football league from operating in Canada. Unwilling to undergo...

SkyDome opened in 1989 as the new home of Toronto's baseball and football teams. The city's basketball team played there from 1995 to 1999 while a new arena was being built downtown. The football team got the boot in 2015, leaving the baseball team...

The Toronto Blizzard joined the North American Soccer League in 1971 as the Metros, before becoming Metros-Croatia in 1975. They became the Blizzard in 1979 and kept that name until they folded in 1984. In 1983, they played in the Soccer Bowl but lost...

The Toronto Metros joined the old North American Soccer League (NASL) in 1975 after the Croatian National Sports Club Toronto Croatia (C.N.S.C.T.C) purchased the then National Soccer League (NSL) team. The Toronto Metros won the Soccer Bowl in 1976. In 1979, C.N.S.C.T.C., sold a...