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New 'Town' starts. True Davidson, East York mayor, breaks the ground at Cresent Town, which will accommodate 20,000 persons in 14 buildings near the Victoria Park subway
New 'Town' starts. True Davidson, East York mayor, breaks the ground at Cresent Town, which will accommodate 20,000 persons in 14 buildings near the Victoria Park subway

New 'Town' starts. True Davidson, East York mayor, breaks the ground at Cresent Town, which will accommodate 20,000 persons in 14 buildings near the Victoria Park subway

Date9/18/1969
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Original Toronto Star caption: New 'Town' starts. True Davidson, East York mayor, breaks the ground at Cresent Town, which will accommodate 20,000 persons in 14 buildings near the Victoria Park subway.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0042025F
True Lends a hand. East York Mayor True Davidson places handprint (top) in slab of cement which will be placed atop the tallest Leaside Towers apartme(...)
True Lends a hand. East York Mayor True Davidson places handprint (top) in slab of cement which will be placed atop the tallest Leaside Towers apartme(...)
6/25/1970
True Lends a hand. East York Mayor True Davidson places handprint (top) in slab of cement which will be placed atop the tallest Leaside Towers apartme(...)
True Lends a hand. East York Mayor True Davidson places handprint (top) in slab of cement which will be placed atop the tallest Leaside Towers apartme(...)
6/25/1970
East York Mayor True Davidson addresses a meeting of the Metro Social Planning Council at which, she says, activists moved in and took over
East York Mayor True Davidson addresses a meeting of the Metro Social Planning Council at which, she says, activists moved in and took over
3/20/1970
True's now a fire chief. Retiring Mayor True Davidson of East York kisses East York Fire Chief Ernest Bell last night after he had presented her with (...)
True's now a fire chief. Retiring Mayor True Davidson of East York kisses East York Fire Chief Ernest Bell last night after he had presented her with (...)
11/23/1972
True grip on the polluted Don. East York Mayor True Davidson holds high a piece of junk pulled Don River today as she helps Robert Hurlburt, president(...)
True grip on the polluted Don. East York Mayor True Davidson holds high a piece of junk pulled Don River today as she helps Robert Hurlburt, president(...)
7/8/1971
True is out for blood donors. East York Mayor True Davidson sticks a blood donor badge on fireman Douglas DeGernier at Red Cross headquarters on Jarvi(...)
True is out for blood donors. East York Mayor True Davidson sticks a blood donor badge on fireman Douglas DeGernier at Red Cross headquarters on Jarvi(...)
12/22/1970
True Trades a Kiss for a Hat. East York Mayor True Davidson, wearing the flowered hat Scarborough Alderman Ted Littleford has just presented to her, g(...)
True Trades a Kiss for a Hat. East York Mayor True Davidson, wearing the flowered hat Scarborough Alderman Ted Littleford has just presented to her, g(...)
4/9/1970
True reviews the old guard. East York Mayor True Davidson, 71, wears period dress to review guard, also in the look of long ago, in Todmorden Mills Hi(...)
True reviews the old guard. East York Mayor True Davidson, 71, wears period dress to review guard, also in the look of long ago, in Todmorden Mills Hi(...)
8/7/1972
Crossing guard is their mayor. East Yok Mayor True Davidson holds up homemade sing to stop cars so children can cross road to Secord Public School Tod(...)
Crossing guard is their mayor. East Yok Mayor True Davidson holds up homemade sing to stop cars so children can cross road to Secord Public School Tod(...)
9/1/1968
The Mayor aids a little miss. Four-year-old Bonnie Little gets some welcome assistance with her hula costume from East York Mayor True Davidson. This (...)
The Mayor aids a little miss. Four-year-old Bonnie Little gets some welcome assistance with her hula costume from East York Mayor True Davidson. This (...)
7/18/1969
Mayoral chain of office is presented last night to East York Mayor True Davidson by Reginald Martin, president of East York Kiwanis Club. The $600 emb(...)
Mayoral chain of office is presented last night to East York Mayor True Davidson by Reginald Martin, president of East York Kiwanis Club. The $600 emb(...)
10/28/1968
It's really quite lovely, says East York Mayor True Davidson as she works away on a civic invitation list by the light of a dozen candles in her home,(...)
It's really quite lovely, says East York Mayor True Davidson as she works away on a civic invitation list by the light of a dozen candles in her home,(...)
9/6/1971