The Maple Leafs
And Canadiens Met Again
In
The 1951 Finals
With Five Consecutive Overtime Games Played
In
The Series. Defenceman Bill Barilko Managed
To Score
The Series-winning Goal
In Overtime
Leaving His Defensive Position (in Spite Of Coach Joe Primeau's Instructions Not To)
To Pick Up An Errant Pass
And Score. Barilko Helped
The Club Secure Its Fourth Stanley Cup
In Five Years
His Glory Was Short-lived
As He Disappeared In
A Plane Crash Near Timmins
Ontario
Four Months Later
The Crash Site Was Not Found Until
A Helicopter Pilot Discovered
The Plane's Wreckage Plane About 80 Kilometres (50 Mi) North Of Cochrane
Ontario Eleven Years Later
The Leafs Did Not Win Another Cup During
The 1950s
With Rumours Swirling That
The Team Was "cursed"
And Would Not Win
A Cup Until Barilko's Body Was Found
The "curse" Came
To An End After
The Leafs' 1962 Stanley Cup Victory
Which Came Six Weeks Before
To
The Discovery Of
The Wreckage Of Barilko's Plane
Their 1951 Victory Was Followed
By Lacklustre Performances
In
The Following Seasons
The Team Finished Third
In
The 1951�52 Season
And Were Eventually Swept By
The Red Wings
In
The Semi-finals. With
The Conclusion Of
The 1952�53 Regular Season
The Leafs Failed
To Make It
To
The Post-season For
The First Time Since
The 1945�46 Playoffs
The Leafs' Poor Performance May Be Attributed Partly To
A Decline
In Their Sponsored Junior System (including
The Toronto St
Michael's Majors And
The Toronto Marlboros)
The Junior System Was Managed
By Frank J
Selke Until His Departure
To
The Canadiens
In 1946
In His Absence
The Quality Of Players
It Produced Declined
Many Who Were Called Up
To
The Leafs
In
The Early 1950s Were Found
To Be Seriously Lacking
In Ability
It Was Only Later
In
The Decade That
The Leafs' Feeder Clubs Produced Prospects That Helped Them Become Competitive Again
After
A Two-year Drought From
The Playoffs
The Maple Leafs Clinched
A Berth After
The 1958�59 Season
Under Punch Imlach
Their New General Manager
And Coach
The Leafs Made It
To
The 1959 Finals
Losing
To
The Canadiens
In Five Games. Building On
A Successful Playoff Run
The Leafs Followed Up With
A Second-place Finish
In
The 1959�60 Regular Season
Although They Advanced
To Their Second Straight Cup Finals
The Leafs Were Again Defeated By
The Canadiens
In Four Games
New Owners And
A New Dynasty (1961�1971)
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During
the War of 1812 with
the United States
Upper Canada was
the chief target of
the Americans
since
it was weakly defended
and populated largely
by American immigrants
However
division
in
the United States over
the war
a lackluster American militia
the incompetence of American military commanders
and swift
and decisive action by
the British commander
Sir Isaac Brock
kept Upper Canada part of British North America
Detroit was captured by
the British
on 6 August 1812
the Michigan Territory was held under British control until
it was abandoned
in 1813
the Americans won
the decisive Battle of Lake Erie (10 September 1813)
and forced
the British
to retreat from
the western areas
on
the retreat they were intercepted at
the Battle of
the Thames (5 October 1813)
and destroyed in
a major American victory that killed Tecumseh
and broke
the power of Britain's Indian allies
Major battles fought
on territory
in Upper Canada included:. . English
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the predominant language spoken
by Torontonians
many other languages have considerable numbers of local speakers
the varieties of Chinese
and Italian
are
the second
and third most widely spoken languages
at work. Despite Canada's official bilingualism
while 9.7% of Ontario's Francophones live
in Toronto
only 0.6% of
the population reported French as
a singular language spoken most often
at home; meanwhile 64% reported speaking predominantly English only
and 28.3% primarily used
a non-official language; 7.1% reported commonly speaking multiple languages
at home
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to respond
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