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Christie Pits riot

1933 race riot in Canada

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 22, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The Christie Pits riot occurred on 16 August 1933 at the Christie Pits playground in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The riot took place in the context of the Great Depression, antisemitism, "Swastika Clubs" and parades and resentment of "foreigners" in Toronto, and the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in Germany in 1933.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1933—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Christie, Pits and riot can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as 1933 race riot in Canada. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Christie Pits riot” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.