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Search futile

Date2/12/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Search futile: After 9-year-old Simon Wilson was reported missing in January, 1975, police officers and volunteers explored Etobicoke's sewer tunnels and Searched Mimico Creek. No trace of Simon was found.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0026960F
Lined up for the search, The search for 7-year-old Cheryl Hanson continued yesterday with soldiers and air cadets driving jeeps through swamps and rug(...)
Lined up for the search, The search for 7-year-old Cheryl Hanson continued yesterday with soldiers and air cadets driving jeeps through swamps and rug(...)
6/9/1974
At The End Of The Search, York Regional Police Sgt
At The End Of The Search, York Regional Police Sgt
3/12/1972
Search for missing woman continues, Police Constable Jim Swick probes the shoreline of the pond at Eglinton Flats near Jane St. yesterday to find some(...)
Search for missing woman continues, Police Constable Jim Swick probes the shoreline of the pond at Eglinton Flats near Jane St. yesterday to find some(...)
10/30/1999
Away all night and cause of a city-wide police search, Carol, 8, (right) and her sister, Robin, 4, are welcomed home today by their mother, Barbara No(...)
Away all night and cause of a city-wide police search, Carol, 8, (right) and her sister, Robin, 4, are welcomed home today by their mother, Barbara No(...)
6/4/1974
Distraught father of the missing girl, Milton Schuett, is led away from search headquarters at Kilbride public school by a neighbor. He had been out a(...)
Distraught father of the missing girl, Milton Schuett, is led away from search headquarters at Kilbride public school by a neighbor. He had been out a(...)
4/28/1967
Hunt for Amy has Happy Ending, Metro police and harbor police search Don River near Queen St
Hunt for Amy has Happy Ending, Metro police and harbor police search Don River near Queen St
8/16/1974
Hunt for Amy has Happy Ending, Metro police and harbor police search Don River near Queen St
Hunt for Amy has Happy Ending, Metro police and harbor police search Don River near Queen St
8/16/1974
The object of a search by 250 policemen and volunteers, 3-year-old John Hachey clutches his mother, Shirley Hachey, after he was found in a restaurant(...)
The object of a search by 250 policemen and volunteers, 3-year-old John Hachey clutches his mother, Shirley Hachey, after he was found in a restaurant(...)
3/30/1972
Search for boy goes underground, Andy Try, 14, and Peter Ostrowskie, 12, beam a flashlight down a side tunnel inside the network of storm sewers in R(...)
Search for boy goes underground, Andy Try, 14, and Peter Ostrowskie, 12, beam a flashlight down a side tunnel inside the network of storm sewers in R(...)
2/5/1975
Co-ordinating the search for 9-year-old Simon Wilson, who's not been seen for two days, five amateur radio groups set up headquarters in the lobby of (...)
Co-ordinating the search for 9-year-old Simon Wilson, who's not been seen for two days, five amateur radio groups set up headquarters in the lobby of (...)
1/30/1975
A search for the body of a girl missing since 1968 is being conducted at the excavation for an animal hospital in Burlington. A workman at the site fo(...)
A search for the body of a girl missing since 1968 is being conducted at the excavation for an animal hospital in Burlington. A workman at the site fo(...)
6/29/1971
10-by-10-foot dugout is where Gordon Plummer, 40, his daughter, Tonya, 9, Don Nicholl, 45, and his son, Ken, 12, spent 72 harrowing hours on Beckwith (...)
10-by-10-foot dugout is where Gordon Plummer, 40, his daughter, Tonya, 9, Don Nicholl, 45, and his son, Ken, 12, spent 72 harrowing hours on Beckwith (...)
2/1/1977