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Week of rejoicing - civic-style - was kicked off yesterday when Toronto opened its new $32 million City Hall
Week of rejoicing - civic-style - was kicked off yesterday when Toronto opened its new $32 million City Hall

Week of rejoicing - civic-style - was kicked off yesterday when Toronto opened its new $32 million City Hall

Date9/14/1965
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Original Toronto Star caption: Week of rejoicing - civic-style - was kicked off yesterday when Toronto opened its new $32 million City Hall. And thousands pack Nathan Phillips Square for the histori official opening. They saw Governor-General George Vanier open the architectural beauty by cutting a huge red ribbon - 132 feet long and 8 feet wide - with a pair of 16-foot scissors. Rockets carrying flags burst over the scene and fireworks splashed against the gray sky at the ceremony. Dignitaries; including Prime Minister Pearson; PRemier Robarts; ex-mayor Nathan Phillips; attended.
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A magnificent new setting, but the same old fights dominated city council today at its first meeting in the $31 million city hall opened yesterday. Bu(...)
A magnificent new setting, but the same old fights dominated city council today at its first meeting in the $31 million city hall opened yesterday. Bu(...)
9/14/1965
Blood for Red Cross, Firefighters kicked off annual two week blood donor drive yesterday when Marlene Lincoln, Miss Metro Toronto, raised the Red Cross flag on the city's fireboat
Blood for Red Cross, Firefighters kicked off annual two week blood donor drive yesterday when Marlene Lincoln, Miss Metro Toronto, raised the Red Cross flag on the city's fireboat
11/22/1965
Cool cash representing the United Way's $16.2 million goal surrounds campaign chairman William Christener deep in vaults of a Metro Bank. There is is folks . . . that's exactly what we need. Let's go out and get it, Christener said as he kicked off campaign early yesterday for the media. Official appeal kick-off starts tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Nathan Phillips Square and you're invited.
Cool cash representing the United Way's $16.2 million goal surrounds campaign chairman William Christener deep in vaults of a Metro Bank. There is is folks . . . that's exactly what we need. Let's go out and get it, Christener said as he kicked off campaign early yesterday for the media. Official appeal kick-off starts tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Nathan Phillips Square and you're invited.
9/22/1977
First scrubdown for city hall, City Hall gets its first wash since it opened in the summer of 1965
First scrubdown for city hall, City Hall gets its first wash since it opened in the summer of 1965
10/2/1968
Battle Scar: Mayor Mel Lastman hikes up a trouser leg yesterday to show where he was kicked in the shin during a melee over a flag-raising ceremony at the North York civic centre's square on Sunday
Battle Scar: Mayor Mel Lastman hikes up a trouser leg yesterday to show where he was kicked in the shin during a melee over a flag-raising ceremony at the North York civic centre's square on Sunday
12/7/1992
Quebec city, home of the famed Royal 22nd Regiment, the Van Doos, roared its welcome to its favorite son when he arrived there from Montreal for a civic reception
Quebec city, home of the famed Royal 22nd Regiment, the Van Doos, roared its welcome to its favorite son when he arrived there from Montreal for a civic reception
3/31/1944
$1 million planetarium soon to be crowned, Workmen will give Toronto's $1,000,000 planetarium its head during the winter when they place a huge concre(...)
$1 million planetarium soon to be crowned, Workmen will give Toronto's $1,000,000 planetarium its head during the winter when they place a huge concre(...)
12/12/1967
Color covered the path of the Saturday parade that kicked off Caribana 71, the week-long celebration organized by Metro's West Indian community. These(...)
Color covered the path of the Saturday parade that kicked off Caribana 71, the week-long celebration organized by Metro's West Indian community. These(...)
8/1/1971
Toronto's love affair with its new City Hall continued last night with 10,000 jamming Nathan Phillips Square for an exhibition of square the Toronto a(...)
Toronto's love affair with its new City Hall continued last night with 10,000 jamming Nathan Phillips Square for an exhibition of square the Toronto a(...)
9/16/1965
A new look in banking - - hard hats and coveralls, When the Bank of Montreal opened its new branch at College and Beverley Sts. yesterday, on the edge(...)
A new look in banking - - hard hats and coveralls, When the Bank of Montreal opened its new branch at College and Beverley Sts. yesterday, on the edge(...)
9/8/1970
It's only three days old, but already Toronto's new City Hall is looking a bit crowded
It's only three days old, but already Toronto's new City Hall is looking a bit crowded
9/15/1965
It's only three days old, but already Toronto's new City Hall is looking a bit crowded
It's only three days old, but already Toronto's new City Hall is looking a bit crowded
9/15/1965