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Familiar figure
Familiar figure

Familiar figure

Date2/16/1983
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Original Toronto Star caption: Familiar figure: William McCauley has been conducting the North York Symphony for 10 years, and has brougth it from an amateurish group to one of the best community orchestras in North America, he says.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0066389F
1990. The new decade dawns with a most familiar figure, Ernie Whitt, gone from the Toronto sports scene. Who knows what the future may hold?
1990. The new decade dawns with a most familiar figure, Ernie Whitt, gone from the Toronto sports scene. Who knows what the future may hold?
4/17/1987
The British youth's instructor, or, A new and easy guide to practical arithmetic : wherein the rudiments of common arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions, the extraction and use of the square and cube roots, &c. are so easily treated of, and so plainly demonstrated, that any person may, of himself (in a short time) become acquainted with every thing necessary to the knowledge of business : to which is added a postcript for the use of country youths in particular, shewing how to measure any regular piece of timber, tyling, thatching, brick-work, or piece of land, as also how to gauge any cistern, piece of malt, or common cooler, tub, &c. : the whole designed for such as have hitherto neglected or have not had opportunity of being acquainted with figures and attempted in natural and familiar dialogues in order to render the work more easy
The British youth's instructor, or, A new and easy guide to practical arithmetic : wherein the rudiments of common arithmetic, vulgar and decimal fractions, the extraction and use of the square and cube roots, &c. are so easily treated of, and so plainly demonstrated, that any person may, of himself (in a short time) become acquainted with every thing necessary to the knowledge of business : to which is added a postcript for the use of country youths in particular, shewing how to measure any regular piece of timber, tyling, thatching, brick-work, or piece of land, as also how to gauge any cistern, piece of malt, or common cooler, tub, &c. : the whole designed for such as have hitherto neglected or have not had opportunity of being acquainted with figures and attempted in natural and familiar dialogues in order to render the work more easy
1770
Fiddler in the park. A familiar figure to Saturday morning shoppers at St. Lawrence Market, strollers in Toronto parks and streets, and even subway ri(...)
Fiddler in the park. A familiar figure to Saturday morning shoppers at St. Lawrence Market, strollers in Toronto parks and streets, and even subway ri(...)
4/11/1978
That old familiar pout, The world's most famous child movie star in her day, 60-year-old Shirley Temple Black adopts a familiar pose as she talks to A(...)
That old familiar pout, The world's most famous child movie star in her day, 60-year-old Shirley Temple Black adopts a familiar pose as she talks to A(...)
11/4/1988
The children's musical Cinderella : told in familiar words to familiar tunes
The children's musical Cinderella : told in familiar words to familiar tunes
1879
Practised eyes: Joy and Clive Goodwin, authors of A Bird-Watching Guide to Ontario, focus their telescope and binoculars so they won't miss any of the 1,000 plumages familiar to the Metro area
Practised eyes: Joy and Clive Goodwin, authors of A Bird-Watching Guide to Ontario, focus their telescope and binoculars so they won't miss any of the 1,000 plumages familiar to the Metro area
5/12/1983
The Catholic school book, containing easy and familiar lessons for the instruction of youth of both sexes in the English language and the paths of tru(...)
The Catholic school book, containing easy and familiar lessons for the instruction of youth of both sexes in the English language and the paths of tru(...)
1817
Mordecal Richler told students at Carleton University, Literature is more than a local address, or familiar street names, or good intentions
Mordecal Richler told students at Carleton University, Literature is more than a local address, or familiar street names, or good intentions
8/24/1972
The French school. Part I : l'écho de Paris : a selection of familiar phrases which a person would daily hear said around him if he were living among French people : with a vocabulary of all the words and idioms used in the work
The French school. Part I : l'écho de Paris : a selection of familiar phrases which a person would daily hear said around him if he were living among French people : with a vocabulary of all the words and idioms used in the work
1843
The parlour book, or, Familiar conversations on science and the arts : for the use of schools and families
The parlour book, or, Familiar conversations on science and the arts : for the use of schools and families
1839
Our native England, or, The historical house that Jack built : being the history of England made easy : in familiar verse with 47 wood cuts
Our native England, or, The historical house that Jack built : being the history of England made easy : in familiar verse with 47 wood cuts
1863
Mentoria, or, The young ladies instructor : in familiar conversations on moral and entertaining subjects : calculated to improve young minds in the essential, as well as ornamental parts of female education
Mentoria, or, The young ladies instructor : in familiar conversations on moral and entertaining subjects : calculated to improve young minds in the essential, as well as ornamental parts of female education
1782