William Knapp Buckley grave
February 23, 2024
William Knapp Buckley founder of Buckley’s cough syrup, “It tastes Awful. And it works”
On a mild February day at Mt. Hope Catholic Cemetery in Toronto, I came across the grave of pharmacist William K. Buckley—the man behind one of Canada’s most famously foul-tasting remedies: Buckley’s Cough and Cold Syrup. In 1920, at his small drugstore on the corner of Dundas and Church Streets in downtown Toronto, Buckley concocted […]
