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The following reference(s) may be useful when improving this article in the future:

Loo, Tina; Strange, Carolyn (1995). "The Traveling Show Menace: Contested Regulation in Turn-of-the-Century Ontario". Law & Society Review. 29 (4): 639–667. doi:10.2307/3053917. ISSN 0023-9216.

A fact from Toronto circus riot appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 April 2026 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that Toronto firefighters once fought with clowns and lit their circus on fire?

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