Edited sentence: As with most Hip songs however, "Bobcaygeon" defies easy explanation and seems to be alluding to multiple references.During an afternoon softball game at the thirty acre park, a horde of Nazis from a Toronto gang called the Swastika-Club brawled with a group of young Jewish men.Gord took to introducing the song during 2004 with: "This one asks the question: evil in the open or evil just below the surface.Like a school yard fight, word of the confrontation spread quickly throughout the city, bringing additional fighters and onlookers in a flood.Of the most commonly discussed and debated is the song's hint of intolerant thugs clashing with mounted cops in "Toronto the Good".Once again, Toronto police were caught helpless, and the city stood with its tolerant reputation in tatters.The city, which today is proudly, if spuriously,  called the "most multicultural city on earth" lost its stoic and stuffy image and was permanently scared in 1933 by the riot at Christie Pitts.The police in the area were overwhelmed, and didn't restore order until 2:30am the next morning.The town was notorious for the moral righteousness of its leaders as well as their prohibition laws and church laden approach to social problems.This reference is furthered by the 1930s Guthrie-esque anti-hate message scrawled across Bobby's acoustic guitar at the end of the "Bobcaygeon" video: "This Machine Kills Fascists".Toronto was again touched by hate-induced violence in 1993 when members of the Neo-Nazi group the Heritage Front (who may also be alluded to in "Fire in the Hole") engaged in a bloody street fight with a group calling themselves Anti-Racist Action.Toronto, the capital of Ontario and also Canada's largest city, was once known derisively in the late 19th and early 20th centuries as the "Stern Voice of God" in the British Empire.—from The Hip Museum