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Likes to win: Duncan Allan, Ontario's new deputy minister of agriculture, is a hard-driving and unconventional civil servant, who has earned a reputation of liking to win
Likes to win: Duncan Allan, Ontario's new deputy minister of agriculture, is a hard-driving and unconventional civil servant, who has earned a reputation of liking to win

Likes to win: Duncan Allan, Ontario's new deputy minister of agriculture, is a hard-driving and unconventional civil servant, who has earned a reputation of liking to win

Date5/17/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Likes to win: Duncan Allan, Ontario's new deputy minister of agriculture, is a hard-driving and unconventional civil servant, who has earned a reputation of liking to win.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0029005F
William Newman, the new Ontario minister of agriculture, is the man who Premier Davis expects to win back rural Ontario for him. Above Newman repairs a rail fence on his farm northeast of Toronto
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Retired civil servant and local historian, John Patrick Dunn, rests on the original mill's grinding stone that has been turned into a memorial, Almonte, Ontario
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After a meteoric rise in the federal civil service, Bernard Ostry has taken over as deputy minister of industry and tourism at Queen's Park, an appoin(...)
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Allan Blakeney has been in Saskatchewan politics for 22 years and his reputation isn't disputed
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Star on ice, Donald Jackson, seen in his heyday in the early '60s, when he earned perfect scores to win the world championships in Prague, Czechoslova(...)
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Triumphant family of Ontario's new premier designate William Davis crowd around him as his fourth-ballot win at leadership convention is announced las(...)
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