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City Hall's old regime gathered for the last time today at the year's final meeting of Toronto City Council
City Hall's old regime gathered for the last time today at the year's final meeting of Toronto City Council

City Hall's old regime gathered for the last time today at the year's final meeting of Toronto City Council

Date12/11/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: City Hall's old regime gathered for the last time today at the year's final meeting of Toronto City Council. The new mayor and aldermen elected in the Dec. 4 civic elections will take office Jan. 1. Alderman David Rotenberg (standing) makes a point while some of his colleagues listen quietly. From the left; they are Aldermen Paul Pickett; Tony O'Donohue and Fred Beavis. O'Donohue and Rotenberg ran unsuccessfully for the mayorally against Alderman David Crombie; they won't be on council any more. Pickett and Beavis were both re-elected as aldermen.
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