In September of 1885, the Barnum and Bailey Circus arrived in St. Thomas, Ontario. After the show, Jumbo and a small elephant called Tom Thumb were being loaded into a circus boxcar when an ...

But Jumbo was far more than the biggest act in the Barnum and Bailey Circus; he was also the world ... Was he really the biggest elephant in the world? How did he die? And was he suffering ...

When P.T. Barnum bought Jumbo, an African elephant from the London Zoological Society, the sale caused protests in England, and began a story full of sensation and tragedy.