Garry Hoy (January 1, 1955 – July 9, 1993) was a lawyer for the law firm of Holden Day Wilson in Toronto who died when he fell from the 24th floor of his office building in Toronto. In an attempt to prove to a group of prospective articling students that the glass windows of the Toronto-Dominion Centre were unbreakable, he threw himself against the glass.
Nov 03, 2000 · Holden Day at its peak had 90 lawyers after a merger in 1990, but the firm was devastated in 1993 by a fatal accident involving popular partner, Garry Hoy, who playfully took a run at a window...
Jan 15, 2021 · Because did you know that this man defeated himself by testing the strength of the windows on the 24th floor? Garry Hoy was a well-known lawyer working at the firm Holden Day Wilson in Toronto. Garry was proud of the construction of the building he worked in. Indeed, the windows of the Toronto Dominion Center were unbreakable. In addition ...
Instead of bouncing off the window as he had the first time, Hoy went straight through, plunging 24 stories down toward the building courtyard below. The fall killed him instantly.Apr 3, 2020
38 years (1955–1993)Garry Hoy / Age at death
Wikimedia Commons The Toronto-Dominion Centre, the former home of law firm Holden Day Wilson, and the place where Garry Hoy died.
To learn the circumstances of Garry Hoy’s death, one might initially get the impression that he was either stupid, under the influence of drugs or alcohol, or perhaps even suicidal.
A Toronto lawyer demonstrating the safety of window panes in a skyscraper plunged through a window to his death.
It isn’t often we have occasion to employ the term “accidental self-defenestration” in an article, but that phrase certainly applies to the case of Garry Hoy, a 38-year-old lawyer with the Toronto law firm of Holden Day Wilson, who on 9 July 1993 plunged to his death from the 24th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower building at TD Centre in front of several horrified witnesses:.