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The Great Stork Derby was a period from 1926 to 1936 where women in Toronto
Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
 competed to produce the most babies in order to qualify for an unusual bequest in a will
Will (law)

In common law, a will or testament is a document by which a person regulates the rights of others over his or her property or family after death....
.

The race was the product of a scheme by Toronto lawyer and financier Charles Vance Millar
Charles Vance Millar

Charles Vance Millar was a Canada lawyer and financier. However, he is now best known as for his penchant for practical jokes and his unusual will which reflected that sense of humor....
 who bequeathed the residue of his significant estate to the woman in Toronto who could produce the most children in a ten year period after his death. The winning mothers were Annie Katherine Smith, Kathleen Ellen Nagle, Lucy Alice Timleck and Isabel Mary Maclean.






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The Great Stork Derby was a period from 1926 to 1936 where women in Toronto
Toronto

Toronto is the List of the 100 largest municipalities in Canada by population in Canada and the Provinces and territories of Canada Provincial and territorial capitals of Canada of Ontario....
 competed to produce the most babies in order to qualify for an unusual bequest in a will
Will (law)

In common law, a will or testament is a document by which a person regulates the rights of others over his or her property or family after death....
.

The race was the product of a scheme by Toronto lawyer and financier Charles Vance Millar
Charles Vance Millar

Charles Vance Millar was a Canada lawyer and financier. However, he is now best known as for his penchant for practical jokes and his unusual will which reflected that sense of humor....
 who bequeathed the residue of his significant estate to the woman in Toronto who could produce the most children in a ten year period after his death. The winning mothers were Annie Katherine Smith, Kathleen Ellen Nagle, Lucy Alice Timleck and Isabel Mary Maclean. Each of them received $125,000 for their nine children. Two others each received $12,500 out of court: Lillian Kenny (ten children, but two stillborn) and Pauline Mae Clarke (ten children, but several illegitimate).

Some of the money went to the Toronto Welfare Department. All of the women used the money for their families except Pauline Clarke who ran off.

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