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Solace in cells: Rev. Sylvia Dunstan, a United Church minister, shares a moment of prayer with an inmate at Whitby Jail. As chaplain to the 2,000 who (...)
Solace in cells: Rev. Sylvia Dunstan, a United Church minister, shares a moment of prayer with an inmate at Whitby Jail. As chaplain to the 2,000 who (...)

Solace in cells: Rev. Sylvia Dunstan, a United Church minister, shares a moment of prayer with an inmate at Whitby Jail. As chaplain to the 2,000 who (...)

Date8/2/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: Solace in cells: Rev. Sylvia Dunstan; a United Church minister; shares a moment of prayer with an inmate at Whitby Jail. As chaplain to the 2;000 who pass through it each year; she arranges religious services at need.
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Panel controlling all locks in Rexdale's new $15 million jail is tested by Supt. W. L. Barber yesterday. Known officially as the Metropolitan Toronto West Detention Centre it will help ease chronic overcrowding at Toronto (Don) Jail - but my almost doubling its capacity. Officials are facing the challenge of housing 340 inmates in a building designed for 200. The cells will contain two prisoners instead of one.
Panel controlling all locks in Rexdale's new $15 million jail is tested by Supt. W. L. Barber yesterday. Known officially as the Metropolitan Toronto West Detention Centre it will help ease chronic overcrowding at Toronto (Don) Jail - but my almost doubling its capacity. Officials are facing the challenge of housing 340 inmates in a building designed for 200. The cells will contain two prisoners instead of one.
7/13/1977
I find it repugnant that in the 1980s in Ontario we are still housing inmates in cells that are seven feet deep, 32 inches wide and seven feet high, h(...)
I find it repugnant that in the 1980s in Ontario we are still housing inmates in cells that are seven feet deep, 32 inches wide and seven feet high, h(...)
7/9/1983
Guelph Inmate walks past cells in block
Guelph Inmate walks past cells in block
5/26/1971
Two Toronto juveniles who escaped from the women's cells at Barrie jail, shown here, are sought by police
Two Toronto juveniles who escaped from the women's cells at Barrie jail, shown here, are sought by police
9/8/1947
Only bars in metro's new jail are in this large cell in the receiving area where prisoners are kept until transferred to the single cells that look li(...)
Only bars in metro's new jail are in this large cell in the receiving area where prisoners are kept until transferred to the single cells that look li(...)
4/22/1977
Cells in the Toronto (Don) Jail were examined by Star reporter Steve Handelman after a prisoner hanged himself
Cells in the Toronto (Don) Jail were examined by Star reporter Steve Handelman after a prisoner hanged himself
11/19/1974
Area where fiv prisoners died in their cells in a fire during an investigation last month. The floor last Dec. 18 is still blackened by soot. Behind the coroner, Dr. A. broken and paint from the charred ceiling. Macdonald, is the rear entrance to the third-floor block, first men in Stratford jail call the area death row, officials said. [Incomplete]
Area where fiv prisoners died in their cells in a fire during an investigation last month. The floor last Dec. 18 is still blackened by soot. Behind the coroner, Dr. A. broken and paint from the charred ceiling. Macdonald, is the rear entrance to the third-floor block, first men in Stratford jail call the area death row, officials said. [Incomplete]
1/6/1977
Touching moment: Michigan priest George Zabelka, a 30-year-old chaplain when the bomb dropped in 1945, exchanges greetings with Setsuko Thurlow, who was 13 and lucky to escape
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7/9/1985
The Rev. Joseph J. Pizzolante, Hamilton clergyman, former metallurgist and printer, and owner of 300 shares of Stelco Inc., was clearly a long shot fo(...)
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4/27/1987
Brent Carver plays Molina, a gay shop window designer who shares a South American prison cell with a political detainee in the musical Kiss Of The Spider Woman
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Sylvia Hamilton United Church Minister
Sylvia Hamilton United Church Minister
7/30/1992
Illustration of sculpted stone arch depicting classical figures with coat of arms at top. Text ...
The whole booke of Psalmes, collected into English meeter by Thomas Sternhold, Iohn Hopkins and others, conferred with the Hebrue, with apt notes to sing them withall, set forth and allowed to be sung in all churches, of all the people together, and after Morning and Evening prayer, as also before and after sermons, and moveouer in priuate houses for their godly solace and comfort, laying apart all vngodly songs and balades, which tend onely to the nourishing of vice and corrupting of youth
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