 At their high point in the 1990s, the society was the largest active Sherlockian society in North America with five to seven meetings a year.As is tradition with Sherlockian societies, The Bootmakers of Toronto take their name from one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's stories, "The Hound of the Baskervilles".In the story a boot belonging to Sir Henry Baskerville is retrieved from a bog and inside the boot is a label inscribed "Meyers, Toronto".