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Doing a balancing act, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau zips up rubber boots as he outfits himself for underground tour at Falconbridge Nickel Mines near(...)
Doing a balancing act, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau zips up rubber boots as he outfits himself for underground tour at Falconbridge Nickel Mines near(...)

Doing a balancing act, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau zips up rubber boots as he outfits himself for underground tour at Falconbridge Nickel Mines near(...)

Date2/25/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Doing a balancing act, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau zips up rubber boots as he outfits himself for underground tour at Falconbridge Nickel Mines near Sudbury. Trudeau was on second day of swing through northern Ontario.
GeographyCity, town, townshipSudbury
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0086427F
Going underground, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau tips his hardhat as he tours Falconbridge Nickel Mines, near Sudbury
Going underground, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau tips his hardhat as he tours Falconbridge Nickel Mines, near Sudbury
2/25/1972
Still friends are Marsh Cooper, right, president of Falconbridge Nickel Mines, who talks with sharehoder E. M. Beals, 74, who flew in from Boston to question plan to create 3 million new special preferred shares. Stockholders gave company the right to raise up to $75 million by selling shares, primarily to banks.
Still friends are Marsh Cooper, right, president of Falconbridge Nickel Mines, who talks with sharehoder E. M. Beals, 74, who flew in from Boston to question plan to create 3 million new special preferred shares. Stockholders gave company the right to raise up to $75 million by selling shares, primarily to banks.
7/20/1976
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
3/10/1970
Zips shows what horse power is all about, Jeff Pait works his yearling stud Zips in the ring at the Coliseum, Exhibition Place yesterday, in preparati(...)
Zips shows what horse power is all about, Jeff Pait works his yearling stud Zips in the ring at the Coliseum, Exhibition Place yesterday, in preparati(...)
3/2/1987
You win some, you lose some, and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, out-manoeuvred, lets this shot zip past him as he takes a brief spell in the goal net (...)
You win some, you lose some, and Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, out-manoeuvred, lets this shot zip past him as he takes a brief spell in the goal net (...)
6/9/1971
Brave miner: Wayne St. Michel is rushed into Sudbury General Hospital after being pulled from a Falconbridge nickel mine but was pronounced dead a sho(...)
Brave miner: Wayne St. Michel is rushed into Sudbury General Hospital after being pulled from a Falconbridge nickel mine but was pronounced dead a sho(...)
6/21/1984
Peter Plunkett-Norris, Vancourver designere who created Margaret Trudeau's trousseau wardrobe, told The Star yesterday that she specified that some outfits had to be Russian-oriented because she was marrying a diplomat and going to tour Russian with him shortly after the marriage
Peter Plunkett-Norris, Vancourver designere who created Margaret Trudeau's trousseau wardrobe, told The Star yesterday that she specified that some outfits had to be Russian-oriented because she was marrying a diplomat and going to tour Russian with him shortly after the marriage
4/7/1971
Antonio Fazzalari of Hullmar Dr. wears rubber boots as he inspects his flooded basement
Antonio Fazzalari of Hullmar Dr. wears rubber boots as he inspects his flooded basement
7/28/1980
It,s mud puddle weather, It's not yet officially spring, but the weather seems so as Sarah Clark, 7 in rubber wading boots, plods through a king-size (...)
It,s mud puddle weather, It's not yet officially spring, but the weather seems so as Sarah Clark, 7 in rubber wading boots, plods through a king-size (...)
3/18/1969
Candee rubber boots & shoes
Candee rubber boots & shoes
1890 circa
Half hours underground : volcanoes, mines and caves
Half hours underground : volcanoes, mines and caves
1897
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's northern Ontario tour showed that he continues to possess considerable personal magnetism for Canadians and it is rela(...)
Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's northern Ontario tour showed that he continues to possess considerable personal magnetism for Canadians and it is rela(...)
2/25/1972