Skip to main content
Digital Archive Toronto Public Library Homepage
Front line newspaper of the Canadian troops in Italy is the tabloid Maple Leaf, published in the II Mattino plant in Naples. The building also houses (...)
Front line newspaper of the Canadian troops in Italy is the tabloid Maple Leaf, published in the II Mattino plant in Naples. The building also houses (...)

Front line newspaper of the Canadian troops in Italy is the tabloid Maple Leaf, published in the II Mattino plant in Naples. The building also houses (...)

Date5/30/1944
Names
(photographer)
Format
Notes
Original Toronto Star caption: Front line newspaper of the Canadian troops in Italy is the tabloid Maple Leaf; published in the II Mattino plant in Naples. The building also houses the U.S. Stars and Stripes; the British Union Jack and Eighth Army News; the French La Patrie and the Italian Risorgimento.
Medium
Language
ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019296F
Chinese civilians board a train to escape advance of Japanese troops
Chinese civilians board a train to escape advance of Japanese troops
1/6/1945
A great column of U.S. troops swings down the famous Champs Elysees, under the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, during the victory parade held after the Fre(...)
A great column of U.S. troops swings down the famous Champs Elysees, under the Arc de Triomphe, in Paris, during the victory parade held after the Fre(...)
n.d.
Airborne troops are landing all around this German woman and her children who have taken refuge in a fox hole on the Rhine's east bank
Airborne troops are landing all around this German woman and her children who have taken refuge in a fox hole on the Rhine's east bank
4/28/1945
Ukrainian-Canadian girls in constume of their land of origin will be usherettes at Sunday night's meeting of the Congress for Canadian-Soviet Friendship at 8 o'clock at Maple Leaf Gardens
Ukrainian-Canadian girls in constume of their land of origin will be usherettes at Sunday night's meeting of the Congress for Canadian-Soviet Friendship at 8 o'clock at Maple Leaf Gardens
11/18/1944
Russian war correspondents, here to address a mass meeting at Maple Leaf Gardens, sponsored by the National Council for Soviet-Canadian Friendship, re(...)
Russian war correspondents, here to address a mass meeting at Maple Leaf Gardens, sponsored by the National Council for Soviet-Canadian Friendship, re(...)
6/13/1946
These pictures were taken by Dick Loek on his trip to Italy when he re-visited the Naples area
These pictures were taken by Dick Loek on his trip to Italy when he re-visited the Naples area
5/21/1981
Cover features: title and composition information within decorative lining (black ink on white ...
We're in the front line now
1941
Time did not destroy this engine of death, an Axis tank, whose mangled remains strew the desert sands of North Africia, silent testimony to the fall of Italy's empire
Time did not destroy this engine of death, an Axis tank, whose mangled remains strew the desert sands of North Africia, silent testimony to the fall of Italy's empire
7/31/1943
Worst blow at the allies since they landed in Italy came Dec
Worst blow at the allies since they landed in Italy came Dec
n.d.
Flashback: Weidauer with wartime newspaper account of his recapture after he escaped and hid for several weeks on a sheep ranch
Flashback: Weidauer with wartime newspaper account of his recapture after he escaped and hid for several weeks on a sheep ranch
3/11/1981
War map published by the Montreal Star Publishing Co., Limited forThe Montreal Daily Star and The Family Herald and Weekly Star specially indicating scenes where Canadian troops distinguished themselves
War map published by the Montreal Star Publishing Co., Limited forThe Montreal Daily Star and The Family Herald and Weekly Star specially indicating scenes where Canadian troops distinguished themselves
Approximately 1918
A new generation remembers, World War II vet Merril Brooks of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 582 in Cooksville, admires the poppy worn by Brett Mars(...)
A new generation remembers, World War II vet Merril Brooks of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 582 in Cooksville, admires the poppy worn by Brett Mars(...)
11/6/1989