Skip to main content
Digital Archive Toronto Public Library Homepage
Paddy Croft is versatile. Well, admits Paddy, I do some pictures but what I particularly like is painting walls. I'm a godsend to friends with new apartments
Paddy Croft is versatile. Well, admits Paddy, I do some pictures but what I particularly like is painting walls. I'm a godsend to friends with new apartments

Paddy Croft is versatile. Well, admits Paddy, I do some pictures but what I particularly like is painting walls. I'm a godsend to friends with new apartments

Date10/2/1962
Names
(subject)
(photographer)
Format
Notes
Original Toronto Star caption: Paddy Croft is versatile. Well, admits Paddy, I do some pictures but what I particularly like is painting walls. I'm a godsend to friends with new apartments.
Medium
Language
ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0040967F
George Bell admits: I'm not the hitter I used to be, George Bell, who doesn't often talk to the press, reflected on his baseball career recently with a Star reporter and confessed that his big hitting days are probably over.
George Bell admits: I'm not the hitter I used to be, George Bell, who doesn't often talk to the press, reflected on his baseball career recently with a Star reporter and confessed that his big hitting days are probably over.
3/27/1980
Mayoralty candidate David Rotenberg, 42, admits some people dislike him because he'd rather act responsibly than do what's politically expedient. Curr(...)
Mayoralty candidate David Rotenberg, 42, admits some people dislike him because he'd rather act responsibly than do what's politically expedient. Curr(...)
9/19/1972
Business lobbying: Sam Hughes, stepping down after five years as president of Chamber of Commerce: admits arm-twisting is as important as public utterances in influencing Ottawa
Business lobbying: Sam Hughes, stepping down after five years as president of Chamber of Commerce: admits arm-twisting is as important as public utterances in influencing Ottawa
9/18/1980
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
3/10/1970
Tale of two teens, Myrian Dias, left, is a dropout and admits, I don't have a bright future.
Tale of two teens, Myrian Dias, left, is a dropout and admits, I don't have a bright future.
9/12/1990
Mike Belkin, Canada's No. 1 ranked tennis star, admits he doesn't blow his cool at umpires as much as he used to, but 25-year-old native of Montreal i(...)
Mike Belkin, Canada's No. 1 ranked tennis star, admits he doesn't blow his cool at umpires as much as he used to, but 25-year-old native of Montreal i(...)
2/3/1971
New president of the Toronto Automobile Dealers Association is Paddy Shanahan, a Scarborough Ford dealer with a family background in autos and horseless carriages going back to 1850
New president of the Toronto Automobile Dealers Association is Paddy Shanahan, a Scarborough Ford dealer with a family background in autos and horseless carriages going back to 1850
4/15/1969
I'm not a starving writer,' admits Michael bliss, historian and author of Banting, pictured here in the confortable library of his Leaside home
I'm not a starving writer,' admits Michael bliss, historian and author of Banting, pictured here in the confortable library of his Leaside home
5/11/1984
The Queenston mourner ... my friends and relations I pray lend an ear, of my sad misfortunes you quickly shall hear, although I'm a mourner I'll sing (...)
The Queenston mourner ... my friends and relations I pray lend an ear, of my sad misfortunes you quickly shall hear, although I'm a mourner I'll sing (...)
1870 circa
Quarterly missionary leaf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, no. XLIV, Feb. 1887 : our friends will like to have the picture of the late Bishop of Saskatchewan, who was well known in England, although his life was spent where his work was done, in the distant parts of North-West Canada
Quarterly missionary leaf of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, no. XLIV, Feb. 1887 : our friends will like to have the picture of the late Bishop of Saskatchewan, who was well known in England, although his life was spent where his work was done, in the distant parts of North-West Canada
1887
She's a good tenant, her landlord admits, but Laurie Meretsky and her two children, Jacqueline, 1 1/2, and Peter, 5, must leave their apartment (in ba(...)
She's a good tenant, her landlord admits, but Laurie Meretsky and her two children, Jacqueline, 1 1/2, and Peter, 5, must leave their apartment (in ba(...)
5/7/1975
Victory sign: Dr. Henry Morgentaler holds up his fingers in a V for victory sign as he prepared to climb into a police paddy wagon to be taken from ol(...)
Victory sign: Dr. Henry Morgentaler holds up his fingers in a V for victory sign as he prepared to climb into a police paddy wagon to be taken from ol(...)
7/7/1983