Confederate Soldier / Old City Hall Toronto

APART FROM THE FACT THAT NER-DO-WELLS ALWAYS WANT THE BEAUTIFUL TORN DOWN, REPLACED BY UGLY MONSTROSITIES, COULD NEVER QUITE FIGURE OUT THE VEHEMENCE SHOWN TOWARDS TORONTO’S BEAUTIFUL, UNMATCHABLE, OLD CITY HALL.

THE OLD STYLE ARCHITECTURE UNBEATABLE.

YES WHEN THE MAGGOTS TRIED TO HAVE IT TORN DOWN DECADES AGO, YOURS TRULY WITH SOME TRUE OLD TORONTONIANS REBELLED AND ASSISTED WITH MANY “SAVE OUR CITY HALL” MEETINGS.

WE WON.

THE BEAUTY STILL STANDS.

NOW TO THE REAL REST OF THE STORY.

A GREAT PATRIOT WHO PASSED AWAY FEBRUARY 18, 1921 WAS QUITE THE CHAP: THIS MAN, THOMAS HUNTER, BORN IN TORONTO IN 1841, ACTUALLY ENDED UP SUPERVISING THE CONSTRUCTION OF TORONTO’S OLD CITY HALL, AT THE TOP OF BAY STREET……SO WHAT YOU TEMPTED TO SAY……WELL LETS BACK UP A BIT TO HIS COLOURFUL AND PATRIOTIC HISTORY (DARE I SUGGEST PATRIOTIC TO HIS RACE ??) ABOUT THE AGE OF NINETEEN, HAVING HEARD STORIES ABOUT THE SLAVE ISSUE, AND SPIES SOUTH OF THE BORDER, HUNTER VISITED THE AMERICAN SOUTH TO SEE WHAT WAS REALLY HAPPENING.

HE WORKED ON THE COLHOUN PLANTATION.

DIXIELAND WAS TRULY SUPPORTIVE OF THE ISOLATED CANADIAN LAD.

AS THE CIVIL WAR STARTED IN 1861, OUR YOUNG HERO TOOK TO AIDING THE CONFEDERACY.

HE WAS THERE WHEN CHATTANOOGA AND CHICKAMAUGA WERE SEIZED, AND HE TOOK PART IN THE BATTLE OF SHILOH.

OVERTAKEN BY THE NORTH IN 1864 HE WAS RELEASED BY AGREEING TO HEAD BACK TO HIS NATIVE LAND, AND STAY PUT.

EVENTUALLY HUNTER RECEIVED THE HONOURARY RANK OF BRIGADIER-GENERAL, AND ALSO GIVEN THE WELL RESPECTED SOUTHERN CROSS, FROM THE SOUTHERN DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY.

LATER ON HE WORKED WITH TOP TORONTO CITY ARCHITECT EDWARD JAMES LENNOX.

THEN HE BECAME CHIEF CLERK OF WORKS.

INCREDIBLE THAT HE SUPERVISED THE BUILDING KNOWN THEN AS TORONTO’S NEW CITY HALL AT QUEEN AND BAY STREETS.

SO, THE CONSTRUCTION OF THAT BEAUTIFUL AWESOME, INSPIRING EDIFICE……WAS COMPLETELY AND TOTALLY SUPERVISED BY A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER.

HE RESTS IN MOUNT PLEASANT CEMETERY, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA.

(My Maternals there too).

WONDER THOUGH WHAT THOMAS HUNTER WOULD HAVE TO SAY ABOUT THE TENS OF THOUSAND OF TAMILS SCREAMING PAST HIS CITY HALL MONUMENT ON MAY 13TH.,2009, AS DESCRIBED IN REPORT BELOW BY YOURS TRULY ? MORAL OF STORY: ARE WE TO LET OUR HISTORY DIE ?