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THE HISTORY OF DAFFODIL DAYS
The Canadian Cancer Society's Daffodil Days began
in Toronto in the 1950s. A group of Canadian Cancer
Society volunteers organized a fundraising tea and
decided to decorate the tables with daffodils. The
bright, cheerful flowers created an atmosphere that
seemed to radiate hope and faith that cancer could
be beaten. Soon these gatherings came to be known
as Daffodil Teas.
Jackie Brockie, a volunteer who also worked at
Eaton's, supported the idea of Daffodil Teas and
arranged for Lady Eaton to host a Tea in the store.
Seven hundred women attended. Another volunteer,
Lane Knight, arranged for restaurants to give part of
their receipts to the Society on the opening day of the
residential canvass in 1956. Canadian Cancer Society
volunteers were on hand at local restaurants to give
patrons a daffodil when they paid for their meals as a
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token of appreciation. The sight of so many daffodils
being carried around the city created interest. When
some recipients tried to pay for the flowers or make
donations, the Society quickly realized that the sale of
daffodils would generate additional revenue.
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the streetsofTorontothefollowingyear.An anonymous
donor paid for 5,000 blooms to be flown from British
Columbia where the growing season starts earlier
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their plantings to accommodate the Society's spring
demand for live blooms.
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