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Peaceful Sundays in Canada

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Long before modern sanitation, Toronto’s officials worried about dead horses disrupting Sunday tranquility on Yonge Street. The peculiar law forbidding horse carcass transportation still exists, though automobiles have replaced horse-drawn carriages. City archives contain amusing records of enforcement. While modern Toronto rarely encounters this problem, the regulation stubbornly remains on official books.

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