"In May of 1944 an eighteen-year-old E.C.I. (then Etobicoke High School) student named Harold G. Shipp convinced a pilot, who ferried Lancaster bombers from Toronto to England during the war, to fly over the school's football field and drop hundreds of leaflets a few of which could be traded for a ticket to the school dance.
The concept was brillant but it went awry when a wind came up scattering the leaflets across