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 ...

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.

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 ...