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Huddled together in the same bed, perhaps for the last time, two tiny sisters, Valerie, 3, and Peggy, 5, sobbed themselves to sleep last night at home(...)
Huddled together in the same bed, perhaps for the last time, two tiny sisters, Valerie, 3, and Peggy, 5, sobbed themselves to sleep last night at home(...)

Huddled together in the same bed, perhaps for the last time, two tiny sisters, Valerie, 3, and Peggy, 5, sobbed themselves to sleep last night at home(...)

Date8/10/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Huddled together in the same bed; perhaps for the last time; two tiny sisters; Valerie; 3; and Peggy; 5; sobbed themselves to sleep last night at home of their foster mother; Mrs. Arthur Timbrell; Preston; Ont. Mrs. Timbrell refuses to release them to Children's Aid which arranged adoptions in separate homes for pair.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0021488F
Perhaps for last time, Mrs. Arthur Timbrell reads bedtime story to the little sisters she wants to adoptéPeggy (left) and Valerie. Children's Aid Soci(...)
Perhaps for last time, Mrs. Arthur Timbrell reads bedtime story to the little sisters she wants to adoptéPeggy (left) and Valerie. Children's Aid Soci(...)
9/27/1967
Happily Unaware of the tensions surrounding them, sisters Peggy, 5, left and Valerie, 3, played outdoors with Aileen Timbrell, 13, yesterday while Mrs(...)
Happily Unaware of the tensions surrounding them, sisters Peggy, 5, left and Valerie, 3, played outdoors with Aileen Timbrell, 13, yesterday while Mrs(...)
9/1/1967
'I want these girls arrested,' social worker Ruth Connolly screamed as she was hurled to ground by two Timbrell sisters outside their Preston home. An(...)
'I want these girls arrested,' social worker Ruth Connolly screamed as she was hurled to ground by two Timbrell sisters outside their Preston home. An(...)
9/28/1967
Peggy, Valerie Timbrell
Peggy, Valerie Timbrell
9/27/1967
A foster mother in Preston, Mrs. Arthur Timbrell, fights to adopt the two young sisters in her care, rather than have them separated. Meanwhile, The S(...)
A foster mother in Preston, Mrs. Arthur Timbrell, fights to adopt the two young sisters in her care, rather than have them separated. Meanwhile, The S(...)
8/19/1967
Together again, Eda Smith Drogo says she spent thousands of dollars in air fares to get her 3-year-old son, Joey, back from a sister-in-law in Sicily (...)
Together again, Eda Smith Drogo says she spent thousands of dollars in air fares to get her 3-year-old son, Joey, back from a sister-in-law in Sicily (...)
4/8/1981
A group of women and children smiling and hugging.
Warm smiles greeted 10-year-old Neroy as he met his adoptive mother, Lorraine Hemming of Burlington, and new sisters, Pamela, 18, standing left, and Techla, 15
8/20/1975
Screaming with grief and fury, Margaret, 10, and Daryl Anne Timbrell, 16, yesterday attacked the social worker who came to get their foster sisters. J(...)
Screaming with grief and fury, Margaret, 10, and Daryl Anne Timbrell, 16, yesterday attacked the social worker who came to get their foster sisters. J(...)
9/28/1967
Tiny protester: Perhaps hiding a late-night yawn behind her big pro-life sign, Hannah Beck, 3, takes part in a candlelight vigil outside the Mimico Correctional Centre
Tiny protester: Perhaps hiding a late-night yawn behind her big pro-life sign, Hannah Beck, 3, takes part in a candlelight vigil outside the Mimico Correctional Centre
9/10/1989
A new home for baby Indira, Indira, a 15-month-old orphan from India, is greeted at Toronto International Airport last night by her new parents, Tim a(...)
A new home for baby Indira, Indira, a 15-month-old orphan from India, is greeted at Toronto International Airport last night by her new parents, Tim a(...)
7/21/1978
Mrs. Frank Gendron, and David, 3, She wants to adopt a sister for her adopted son
Mrs. Frank Gendron, and David, 3, She wants to adopt a sister for her adopted son
9/24/1971
John Christopher Baby X, With Social Worker Valerie Kearton
John Christopher Baby X, With Social Worker Valerie Kearton
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