The Great Stork Derby: Canada’s Bizarre Baby-Making Contest of the 1920s
Weird History di Echo Ridge Media
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What happens when a dying millionaire’s prank will turns into a surreal race for motherhood—and a national scandal? In this jaw-dropping episode of Weird History, we dive into The Great Stork Derby, one of history’s strangest legal dramas.
In 1926, eccentric Toronto lawyer Charles Vance Millar left a bombshell in his will: a fortune would go to the woman who bore the most children in the next decade. What followed was a cutthroat competition of fertility, a tabloid frenzy, and a moral firestorm that divided Canada. Was this a darkly comic social experiment—or a grotesque exploitation of women’s lives?
Join us as we unravel:
✨ The twisted mind behind the will—a man who loved pranks, horse racing, and chaos.
✨ The women who raced to out-birth ...