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Touching moment
Touching moment

Touching moment

Date9/15/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Touching moment: A choir from St. Alban's Boys' and Girls' Club of Palmerston Ave. serenades Protestant police chaplain Rev. Richard Jones as he prepares to cut his 80th birthday cake. Seven hundred people gathered at the Royal York Hotel to thank Jones; a maverick; motorcycle-riding cleric; for 20 years of service counselling; marrying and burying policemen.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0021960F
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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Historic moment
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Copy of the militia general order touching the court of inquiry held upon Colonel Prince
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Colour card advertisement. Front of card depicts an illustration of a woman and man sitting, f ...
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Nemo Neminis, his speech touching Canada
Nemo Neminis, his speech touching Canada
18--?
The Nativity scene, always tender and touching, is being repeated hundreds of times across Metro now as children, and adults as well, are caught up in(...)
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