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Church Street Rubdown
BY Shawn Micallef April 30, 2008 12:04
In 2005, the Church and Wellesley Business Association erected what at first glance looks like a monument to stylish dandyism at Church and Alexander streets. Closer inspection reveals it’s a statue of Alexander Wood, a Scottish merchant and magistrate who caused a scandal in 1810 when he closely inspected the genitals of suspects in a rape case. His farm at Yonge and Carlton was derisively nicknamed “Molly Wood’s Bush” — and later his name was given to Alexander and Wood streets. Today, less scandalous touching continues, as the bare buttocks of a figure depicted on one of the monument’s plaques has been continuously rubbed and polished by passersby.
625 Church St, 6th Floor, Toronto M4Y 2G1
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