Commune at 418 Dundas

The Kansas City group arrived in Toronto in the spring of 1968 and rented a small run-down house on St. Paul Street. The house proved unsatisfactory. Jobs hard to find and the group dispersed. Chuck Wall and Lisa Steele went to British Columbia. Colleen and Bruce Anderson moved to an apartment on Beverly Street and others went overseas. In the fall the group was back in Toronto and living at the overcrowded house at 224 McCaul Street. In December 1968 Don Holman agreed to lease the house at 418 Dundas Street on the understanding that his friends from Kansas City would help him with the rent. At the time Don was a teacher and the only one of the group with a stable job. Dave Woodward, one of the founders of the Yellow Ford Truck, joined them. Myra Kaplan (a friend of Chris Risk) also agreed to move into the large three-story house. Within six months most of the original group had moved elsewhere leaving Don Holman holding the lease. He made the most of the situation and rented the rooms to other people.

Dave Woodward wrote a number of letters to his girlfriend while living at 418 Dundas Street in which he discribed events at the Dundas Street commune. At that time Carol Hueber was a student at the American University in Beirut, Lebanon.