Is There a Massive, Cold War Era Fallout Shelter Under Queen’s Park in Toronto?

An urban legend examined

Model fallout shelter, Queen’s Park Crescent and College St., July 1960. Courtesy of the Archives of Ontario (C 5–2–2–47–3)

With Putin reliving Russia’s past glories in Eastern Europe and muttering darkly about nukes, the shelter industry may be in for a comeback.

Long-time Torontonians might have heard stories about a secret fallout shelter under the Ontario provincial parliament…