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Mayor is chief for a day. Toronto's fire department inaugurated its centennial celebrations yesterday with official opening of College St. station. Ma(...)
Mayor is chief for a day. Toronto's fire department inaugurated its centennial celebrations yesterday with official opening of College St. station. Ma(...)

Mayor is chief for a day. Toronto's fire department inaugurated its centennial celebrations yesterday with official opening of College St. station. Ma(...)

Date3/8/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: Mayor is chief for a day. Toronto's fire department inaugurated its centennial celebrations yesterday with official opening of College St. station. Mayor David Crombie chopped red ribbon apart with a fire axe. Building originally was erected in 1878, was modified with a hose tower and clock in 1895 and housed city's first motorized pumper in 1911.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0041131F
David Crombie. Mayor David Crombie riding on the shoulders of his campaign workers he was carried into the St. Lawrence Market Hall where his victory celebrations were held
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3/17/1970
Surveying his domain from atop one of Toronto's new downtown skycrapers is William Dennison, who retires at the end of this year after six years as ma(...)
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10/12/1972
Back to school. East York's Mayor True Davidson, a member of the board of governors of Centennial College, Scarboro, wears scholar's mortarboard at th(...)
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Chief Magistrate, Chief Cook. Mayor William Dennison, just back from a three-week Florida vacation, is making his own breakfast these days--not becaus(...)
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Shows True Davidson tweaking the brim of a Sherlockian Deerstalker hat worn by a tall young man ...
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