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After 15 years in Victoria, Leon Rooke, winner of the Governor-General's award of the best work of fiction published in 1983, is spending a year in Toronto with his family
After 15 years in Victoria, Leon Rooke, winner of the Governor-General's award of the best work of fiction published in 1983, is spending a year in Toronto with his family

After 15 years in Victoria, Leon Rooke, winner of the Governor-General's award of the best work of fiction published in 1983, is spending a year in Toronto with his family

Date7/5/1984
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Original Toronto Star caption: After 15 years in Victoria, Leon Rooke, winner of the Governor-General's award of the best work of fiction published in 1983, is spending a year in Toronto with his family.
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