Harold G. Shipp’s First High Flier!
Artist
John Kuna
Title
Harold G. Shipp’s First High Flier!
Year
2008
Where to Find It
4994 Dundas Street West, Etobicoke, Toronto, Etobicoke, ON, Canada
About
In 1944 Harold Shipp convinced a Lancaster bomber pilot who ferried supplies from Toronto to England during the war, to fly over the school’s football field and drop hundreds of leaflets, a few of which could be traded for tickets to the school dance. Unfortunately, a rogue wind scattered the leaflets across the Chinese market gardens near Montgomery’s Inn. In the ensuing mayhem, excited football fans frantic to secure a winning ticket, stormed the field and trampled the carefully tended cabbages.