The Massey Murder: Interactive Game and Tour (NEW FOR 2025)

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** Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket amount when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:
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First it was Ambrose Small and my team of brilliant detectives who tried to figure it all out. The walkers on this tour just about cracked the case. Well done my detectives. But your smarts are needed again however. The Harley Karulis Detective Agency needs your help!

The famous murder of Burt Massey on Walmer Road awaits your inspection. This time we are needed as jurors to figure the case out and add a fresh perspective. Are you up for this interactive game once again?

The story shocked the city back in February of 1915.

How a young teenage maid shot and killed her boss on Walmer Road in the Annex made headlines across Canada and around the world. But it was the name of that boss that made people gasp, the Massey family, from the famous music hall of the same name on Shuter Street in downtown Toronto! And people talked and tried to come up with explanations.

But the following trial exposed the undercurrents of Toronto life, and the class system that was in place. This trial changed Toronto at a crucial time in its history. The first World War was raging in Europe, and residents of the city now had something else to think about.

Murder!

How this could have happened to an upper middle class family in the centre of Toronto, the Annex neighbourhood was rife with theory and fears.

This walking tour/game takes participants back in time to the 1915 trial and explores the many sites associated with the trial and the personalities involved. You will be introduced to 15 historic characters and each has their own dark secrets, it will be up to you to render a verdict in this case. Guilty, or Not Guilty, and was the trial fair, those are the questions that need answering! Are you up for it?

Sites like the National Club and the Toronto Club, Old City Hall and the Morgue are explored and their stories exposed.

This tour requires a PRESTO card for TTC as this tour uses transit to get around the city for stops outside the downtown core. One could call it a hop on hop off walking tour!

Our walk begins on the steps of Old City Hall at the northeast corner of Bay Street and Queen Street West. We end the tour at the site of the murder in the Annex for the reading of the verdict! Just like in the Ambrose Small case, we end where it all begins!

This tour has a ticket price of $15.00 per person. Please get your tickets early if you would like to attend.

** Please note: Please e-transfer the ticket price when booking your space for this tour! You can e-transfer to the following email at:
**torontohistorywalks@gmail.com**