The Suicide Magnet: Inside the Battle to Erect a Safety Barrier on Toronto's Bloor Viaduct

by Paul McLaughlin

FINALIST FOR TORONTO BOOK AWARDS

The inside story of the grassroots fight to have a suicide barrier erected on Toronto's "bridge of death."

Most Torontonians have no idea their city once hosted the second most popular suicide magnet in North America, behind the Golden Gate Bridge. Since its completion in 1918, more than four hundred people jumped to their death from the Bloor Viaduct, which spans the cavernous Don Valley.

That...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 145975140X
• ISBN13: 9781459751408
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"