{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/62471f9b30fb610012001dd0/6a91c4330911a56197295604?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Eccentric Millionaire’s Bizarre Baby Contest in Depression-Era Canada","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/62471f9b30fb610012001dd0/1787937576813-4417a093-2570-4016-ac72-192ed50bc7fb.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Eccentric Millionaire’s Bizarre Baby Contest in Depression-Era Canada</p><p><br></p><p>In this episode of <strong>Canada Is Boring</strong>, Rhys Waters and Jesse Harley dive into the unbelievable true story of <strong>Charles Vance Miller</strong>, a wealthy and eccentric Toronto lawyer whose bizarre will triggered one of the strangest competitions in Canadian history: <strong>The Great Stork Derby</strong>.</p><p>Miller, a successful <strong>Toronto lawyer</strong>, <strong>O’Keefe Brewery</strong> investor, and racehorse owner, used his fortune to play elaborate pranks that tested people’s <strong>greed, morality, and hypocrisy</strong>. But his greatest “joke” came after his death in 1926, when his will offered a massive cash prize to the <strong>married couple in Ontario who had the most children</strong> over a ten-year period—during the <strong>Great Depression</strong>, when families were already struggling to survive.</p><p><br></p>","author_name":"Jesse Harley, Rhys Waters "}