Elizabeth Arden
While working in a New York beauty salon 1908, Florence Nightingale Graham (1881-1966) became known as “the little Canadian woman with the magic hands.” An ambitious nursing school dropout from Woodbridge, Ontario, she borrowed...
April 2019
Moxy Fruvous
This satiracal and sometimes political band from Thornhill, Ontario, often gave frivolous answers about its name, which comes complete with heavy metal umlaut (possibly borrowed from Motley Crue?). A member eventually admitted that, contrary...
Tim Hortons Donuts
What does hockey have to do with doughnuts? In most ways, not much, except that Tim Horton, a Hockey hall of Farmer from Cochrane, Ontario, helped start the now-famous doughnut chain. Tim Horton was...
Forensic Anthropology Research Facility
The Forensic Anthropology Research Facility (FARF) is maintained under the jurisdiction of the Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State University (FACTS) This unusual outdoor research laboratory focuses on “reconstructing the postmortem interval to determine...
