The Great Stork Derby – Toronto’s Baby Race 👶💰🇨🇦In the 1920s, prankster lawyer Charles Vance Millar left a will that offered his fortune to the Toronto woman who had the most babies in 10 years after his death. The result? A decade-long “baby race” dubbed the Great Stork Derby. Families expanded rapidly, newspapers and parliament debated the ethics, and after legal battles, four families with nine children each split the fortune. It’s one of the strangest and most controversial inheritances
1:05
The Great Stork Derby – Toronto’s Baby Race 👶💰🇨🇦In the 1920s, prankster lawyer Charles Vance Millar left a will that offered his fortune to the Toronto woman who had the most babies in 10 years after his death. The result? A decade-long “baby race” dubbed the Great Stork Derby. Families expanded rapidly, newspapers and parliament debated the ethics, and after legal battles, four families with nine children each split the fortune. It’s one of the strangest and most controversial inheritances
84 views7 months ago
FacebookFactPlug
An eccentric tycoon left a fortune to the winner of a baby-making contest. The Great Stork Derby divided Canadians during the Great Depression
An eccentric tycoon left a fortune to the winner of a baby-making contest. The Great Stork Derby divided Canadians during the Great Depression
1 month ago
MSNJordan Friedman
Million-Dollar Baby Race: The Strangest Competition in History 🤯 #history
0:47
Million-Dollar Baby Race: The Strangest Competition in History 🤯 #history
295 views6 months ago
YouTubeTimeless Whispers
Toronto’s Baby Race The Great Stork Derby
0:46
Toronto’s Baby Race The Great Stork Derby
726 views8 months ago
YouTubeEchoes of History
The Great Stork Derby: The Bizarre Baby Race of 1926-1936
3:00
The Great Stork Derby: The Bizarre Baby Race of 1926-1936
362 viewsJul 11, 2024
YouTubeHistory In A Flash
An Eccentric Tycoon Left a Fortune to the Winner of a Baby-Making Contest. The Great Stork Derby Divided Canadians During the Great Depression
An Eccentric Tycoon Left a Fortune to the Winner of a Baby-Making Contest. The Great Stork Derby Divided Canadians During the Great Depression
1 month ago
Smithsonian MagazineJordan Friedman
Hidden Toronto Ontario | Canada's Weirdest Contest | Babies | Stork Derby Living In Toronto #toronto
0:50
Hidden Toronto Ontario | Canada's Weirdest Contest | Babies | Stork Derby Living In Toronto #toronto
8.8K views10 months ago
YouTubeInsiderToronto
4:46
When Children Became currency
157 views7 months ago
YouTubeUnimpressed With Neilbert
0:57
Why did a will start a baby-making race?
873 views1 month ago
YouTubeOur History Simplified
0:38
The Millionaire Who Held a Baby-Making Contest | #shorts
1 views5 months ago
YouTubeBroken Ledgers
9:06
The Great Stork Derby
1 month ago
MSNHouse of History
0:28
TORONTOS BIZARRE STORK DERBY LEGACY
131 views8 months ago
YouTube45s_history
1:06:04
A Million-Dollar Baby Race? The Shocking Story of the Great Stork Derby!
76.8K viewsApr 4, 2025
YouTubeHistory & Hearsay
1:02
“The Great Stork Derby When Babies Were Worth Millions"#history #historyfacts #historyshorts #canada
580 views9 months ago
YouTubeHistoric UJ
2:37
When a Millionaire Paid Women to Have Babies (True Story)
26 views7 months ago
YouTubeBazaar Of Youtube
0:42
The GREAT STORK DERBY: A City's Shocking Obsession!
700 views1 month ago
YouTubeHistory At Hand
0:48
The Millionaire Who Paid Women to Have Babies: The Great Stork Derby
1.1K views4 months ago
YouTubeBedTime Historic Stories
31:37
The Great Stork Derby: The Strangest Contest In History
9.2K viewsJul 3, 2020
YouTubeHumdinger
0:59
The Great Stork Derby: A Fascinating Historical Event
33.3K viewsMar 11, 2022
TikTokdexter.mp4
6:44
Nkhani ya Charles Millar - The Great Stork Derby #Nkhani | The Jaki Show
70.1K views6 months ago
FacebookThe Jaki Show
0:31
He Paid Women to Have... 9 BABIES?! 👶💰 #shorts
1.1K views5 months ago
YouTubePast Explained
How A Dead Millionaire Drove Canada To A Baby-Making Race For His Fortune
Jan 12, 2020
allthatsinteresting.com
The Great Stork Derby + Hitler's elite special forces: The Brandenburgers (WW2)
4 months ago
MSN
1:00
Weirdest Demands in Last Wills- The Great Stork Derby 🤯 Weirdest Demands and Last Wills! 😱 Check out this unbelievable story of Charles Vance Miller and his outrageous bequests! From leaving a brewery to non-drinking ministers to giving a beach house to three people who despised each other, he definitely knew how to stir up drama! 🏖️ And let's not forget about the epic Stork Derby, where the race for the most children led to a four-way tie and a massive fortune split! 🏆 Follow for more jaw-d
411 viewsJan 28, 2024
FacebookNathan Morris
0:41
The Great Stork Derby #shorts #memes | CGI View
1.2K views5 months ago
FacebookCGI View
2:05
The Great Stork Derby
568 views2 weeks ago
YouTubeHistory Shorts
Anthony Milian | Subscribe to my new podcast "10 minute history lesson" The Great Stork Derby was a contest held from 1926 to 1936. Female residents... | Instagram
60.6K viewsMar 9, 2025
Instagramdeffnotant
49:09
9 Babies, 10 Years, 1 Fortune: The Great Stork Derby
44 views4 months ago
YouTubeInheritance Verdict HQ
40:10
Great Stork Derby | STUFF YOU MISSED IN HISTORY CLASS
156 viewsJan 14, 2023
YouTubeStuff You Missed in History Class
0:20
Great White scratches at Kentucky Derby 2026 after dumping his jockey
3 weeks ago
courier-journal.com
See more
Static thumbnail place holder