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Youths at a housing project in Metro Hang up old chair without a seat and use it for a basket
Youths at a housing project in Metro Hang up old chair without a seat and use it for a basket

Youths at a housing project in Metro Hang up old chair without a seat and use it for a basket

Date4/1/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: Youths at a housing project in Metro Hang up old chair without a seat and use it for a basket. Some community leaders say the daily grind faced by many black parents to earn a modest income often means that young people can spend too much time alone. And some join questionable groups because they need to belong to something. But the vast majority of black kids are no different from those in any other group; they say.
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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_0107058F
The British youth's instructor, or, A new and easy guide to practical arithmetic : wherein the rudiments of common arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions, the extraction and use of the square and cube roots, &c. are so easily treated of, and so plainly demonstrated, that any person may, of himself (in a short time) become acquainted with every thing necessary to the knowledge of business : to which is added a postcript for the use of country youths in particular, shewing how to measure any regular piece of timber, tyling, thatching, brick-work, or piece of land, as also how to gauge any cistern, piece of malt, or common cooler, tub, &c. : the whole designed for such as have hitherto neglected or have not had opportunity of being acquainted with figures and attempted in natural and familiar dialogues in order to render the work more easy
The British youth's instructor, or, A new and easy guide to practical arithmetic : wherein the rudiments of common arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions, the extraction and use of the square and cube roots, &c. are so easily treated of, and so plainly demonstrated, that any person may, of himself (in a short time) become acquainted with every thing necessary to the knowledge of business : to which is added a postcript for the use of country youths in particular, shewing how to measure any regular piece of timber, tyling, thatching, brick-work, or piece of land, as also how to gauge any cistern, piece of malt, or common cooler, tub, &c. : the whole designed for such as have hitherto neglected or have not had opportunity of being acquainted with figures and attempted in natural and familiar dialogues in order to render the work more easy
1770
A class book for the use of common schools and families in the united Canadas, entitled The youth's guard against crime, having embodied in it all the criminal laws of the land, conveniently abridged
A class book for the use of common schools and families in the united Canadas, entitled The youth's guard against crime, having embodied in it all the criminal laws of the land, conveniently abridged
1844
The parents of some of these Toronto youths were worried when the six of them banded together under one roof in the north end of Metro where they set (...)
The parents of some of these Toronto youths were worried when the six of them banded together under one roof in the north end of Metro where they set (...)
1/29/1970
Not control: A mounted Metro police officer moves into action against youths during yesterday's riot through downtown streets
Not control: A mounted Metro police officer moves into action against youths during yesterday's riot through downtown streets
1/11/1993
Under arrest in a police round-up of six east end youths after a series of hold-ups are Thomas William Ward, 16, left, charged with armed robbery, and(...)
Under arrest in a police round-up of six east end youths after a series of hold-ups are Thomas William Ward, 16, left, charged with armed robbery, and(...)
12/29/1945
Tips from the champ, Al Gallow, may help this little boy grow up to be a Yo-Yo demonstrator when he's a teenager. Gallow's company hires 15 youths to demonstrate Yo-Yos across Canada each summer and he says job pays well.
Tips from the champ, Al Gallow, may help this little boy grow up to be a Yo-Yo demonstrator when he's a teenager. Gallow's company hires 15 youths to demonstrate Yo-Yos across Canada each summer and he says job pays well.
6/11/1975
Police drag don for youth's body, Police dragged the Don River for 20 minutes today looking for the body of a housebreaking suspect, then gave up beca(...)
Police drag don for youth's body, Police dragged the Don River for 20 minutes today looking for the body of a housebreaking suspect, then gave up beca(...)
8/19/1970
Crosses on photograph at Newtonbrook Plaza, North York, show where three youths were shot (left) by a gunman (centre) who had ordered them to line up.(...)
Crosses on photograph at Newtonbrook Plaza, North York, show where three youths were shot (left) by a gunman (centre) who had ordered them to line up.(...)
7/29/1971
Regent park youth corps, a group of serious-minded young people who live in the Regent Park South Housing project, hold round table discussion on how (...)
Regent park youth corps, a group of serious-minded young people who live in the Regent Park South Housing project, hold round table discussion on how (...)
12/30/1968
At the Graveside: Family and friends of Wade Lawson cling to each other for comfort at the youth's burial at Spring Creek Cemetery in Mississauga yesterday, while 3-years-old Trevor, left, sobs for his dead stepbrother
At the Graveside: Family and friends of Wade Lawson cling to each other for comfort at the youth's burial at Spring Creek Cemetery in Mississauga yesterday, while 3-years-old Trevor, left, sobs for his dead stepbrother
12/14/1988
At the graveside: Family and friends of Wade Lawson cling to each other for comfort at the youth's burial at Spring Creek Cemetery in Mississauga yesterday, while 3-year-old Trevor, left, sobs for his dead stepbrother
At the graveside: Family and friends of Wade Lawson cling to each other for comfort at the youth's burial at Spring Creek Cemetery in Mississauga yesterday, while 3-year-old Trevor, left, sobs for his dead stepbrother
12/14/1988
A bitter man: Tim Gabriel with his four-month-old daughter Alysia, had to have a leg amputated after being beaten by three youths
A bitter man: Tim Gabriel with his four-month-old daughter Alysia, had to have a leg amputated after being beaten by three youths
11/9/1979