Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Horatio Clarence Hocken was a Canadian politician, Mayor of Toronto, social reformer and a founder of what became the Toronto Star. Born in Toronto in what was pre-Confederation Canada West, Hocken had a media career as a printer, publisher and journalist. After working as a typesetter at the Toronto Globe at which he led a strike, Hocken, in 1892, Hocken was a foremen in the print room of the Toronto News when the Typographical Union went on strike. He and 20 other strikers founded the Evening Star as a strike paper with Hocken as the new paper's business manager.