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Toronto's Royal Tourist, Princess Alexandra, lets her eyes do the walking in visit today to the top of 56-storey T-D Centre. Guiding the sight-seeing (...)
Toronto's Royal Tourist, Princess Alexandra, lets her eyes do the walking in visit today to the top of 56-storey T-D Centre. Guiding the sight-seeing (...)

Toronto's Royal Tourist, Princess Alexandra, lets her eyes do the walking in visit today to the top of 56-storey T-D Centre. Guiding the sight-seeing (...)

Date5/16/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Toronto's Royal Tourist; Princess Alexandra; lets her eyes do the walking in visit today to the top of 56-storey T-D Centre. Guiding the sight-seeing is Allen T. Lambert; president of the Toronto-Dominion Bank. Yesterday; the princess and her husband were kept under wraps. Today was different: Thousands of school children greeted her at City Hall with so much enthusiasm police had trouble.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0122766F
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Gift of sight: Mornine Poonah, 56, was blind in one eye, and had only 1 per cent vision in the other, before an operation last year by mississauga ophthalmologist Dr. Brian Newbigin. Now she has 25 per cent vision in one eye, which is improving steadily as she becomes accustomed to her glasses.
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