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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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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Object 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
Peggy, Valerie Timbrell
Peggy, Valerie Timbrell
9/27/1967
John Christopher Baby X, With Social Worker Valerie Kearton
John Christopher Baby X, With Social Worker Valerie Kearton
n.d.
There was food and love aplenty today for Tiny Tim, an abandoned 6-day-old baby found lying wrapped in a blanket on the grass in an East York backyard(...)
There was food and love aplenty today for Tiny Tim, an abandoned 6-day-old baby found lying wrapped in a blanket on the grass in an East York backyard(...)
4/26/1969
Abandoned baby Tiny Tim, Found lying on lawn, wrapped in a blue blanket
Abandoned baby Tiny Tim, Found lying on lawn, wrapped in a blue blanket
4/25/1969
A new little Canadian, Anne Hull plays with her tiny adopted daughter, Alexandra, in Mississauga
A new little Canadian, Anne Hull plays with her tiny adopted daughter, Alexandra, in Mississauga
5/15/1991
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
'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
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
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
Metro mother may lay charges to get son, A Childless Quebec couple who took a 2 1/2-year-old Metro boy to Danville last Wednesday, told The Star last (...)
Metro mother may lay charges to get son, A Childless Quebec couple who took a 2 1/2-year-old Metro boy to Danville last Wednesday, told The Star last (...)
4/11/1976