Name: Horatio Hocken

Position: City Controller and future Mayor

Notoriety:

"Toronto is notorious for postponing necessary improvements until the cost has doubled or tripled. A transit system must be built eventually." - City Controller and future Mayor, Horatio Hocken speaking before the Board of Trade in 1911 advocating for a subway line under Bay Street at a proposed cost of $5 million.

The Subway opened 43 years later at a cost of $67 million.

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