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Shortest route: Before they get a license, London taxi drivers must be able to name, street-by-street, the shortest route between any two points within a six-mile radius
Shortest route: Before they get a license, London taxi drivers must be able to name, street-by-street, the shortest route between any two points within a six-mile radius

Shortest route: Before they get a license, London taxi drivers must be able to name, street-by-street, the shortest route between any two points within a six-mile radius

Date10/22/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: Shortest route: Before they get a license; London taxi drivers must be able to name; street-by-street; the shortest route between any two points within a six-mile radius.
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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_0117175F
Folded two sided map. One side is a map of the mainland United States and southern Canada showi ...
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Arguments in favor of the Ottawa and Georgian Bay ship canal, the shortest, safest, and cheapest route to the ocean from the great West through Canadi(...)
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Young & Brownlee's Winnipeg District map shewing within a radius of 20 miles of the city of Winnipeg, Manitoba
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1888
Colorized photograph of a view of a waterway, with a large home on an island connected by a sma ...
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Colorized photograph of a view of a waterway, with a large summer resort on an island connected ...
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TTC Driver Donald Sine. On route and only too glad to get back
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12/17/1975
Booting the sign: Robert Keillor points out the sign telling drivers to stay back from fire engines - only one of the rules he finds Metro drivers disobey when firefighters are rushing to an emergency
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Held-up, he jumped. Morris Lenick took the dotted-line route out of his second-storey office window on Dundas Sq. when two men appeared and presented (...)
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No Passengers on this Route, Top bus drivers from across Canada and the United States have been fighting it out for the honor of being named North Ame(...)
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9/26/1978