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An awestruck youngster is part of the happy crowd that attended the official ground-breaking ceremony for the new Queen Elizabeth Library at Memorial (...)
An awestruck youngster is part of the happy crowd that attended the official ground-breaking ceremony for the new Queen Elizabeth Library at Memorial (...)

An awestruck youngster is part of the happy crowd that attended the official ground-breaking ceremony for the new Queen Elizabeth Library at Memorial (...)

Date7/27/1978
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Original Toronto Star caption: An awestruck youngster is part of the happy crowd that attended the official ground-breaking ceremony for the new Queen Elizabeth Library at Memorial University in St. John's. After the ceremony the Queen; who arrived in Newfoundland yesterday at the start of her Canadian visit; stopped to chat with the ecstatic onlookers. Earlier today; the Queen; laid a wreath at the national war memorial.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0123068F
Toronto mayor William Dennison and Ontario Premier John Robarts were on the speakers' platform for the official ground-breaking ceremonies, just a sto(...)
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Air Canada Centre Construction ground breaking ceremony
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Breaking ground: Stefan Collins, left, filmmaker Lynne Fernie and Councillor Kyle Rae launch the construction of Canada's first AIDS memorial yesterday
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Picture of a man putting soil in a basket while others stand and watch at sod turning ceremony. ...
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1978-08
A silver spade with wood and metal handle.
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At Queen's Park - 'Happy New Year'. Ontario Lieutenant-Governor Ross Macdonald gives a warm welcome to Dr. Pauline McGibbon, the recently appointed chancellor of University of Toronto, at his New Year's Day levee, attended by more than 550 guests at Queen
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