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Superintendent Walter Rutledge plays with a toy soccer game in cell area of improved York County detention home for children on Jarvis St. Critics use(...)
Superintendent Walter Rutledge plays with a toy soccer game in cell area of improved York County detention home for children on Jarvis St. Critics use(...)

Superintendent Walter Rutledge plays with a toy soccer game in cell area of improved York County detention home for children on Jarvis St. Critics use(...)

Date6/5/1969
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Original Toronto Star caption: Superintendent Walter Rutledge plays with a toy soccer game in cell area of improved York County detention home for children on Jarvis St. Critics used to call home oppressive, but it's been spruced up.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0078170F
Metro West Detention Centre with Superintendent John Walter in two different cells/standing in the four unit cell and sitting in the two unit cell-
Metro West Detention Centre with Superintendent John Walter in two different cells/standing in the four unit cell and sitting in the two unit cell-
5/23/1986
Supt York County Juvenile detention home 311 Jarvis str - 924-0631
Supt York County Juvenile detention home 311 Jarvis str - 924-0631
6/5/1969
Supt York County Juvenile detention home 311 Jarvis str 924-0631
Supt York County Juvenile detention home 311 Jarvis str 924-0631
6/5/1969
Clare Coulter plays Rosana and John Jarvis is Willy in Bill Glassco's production of Le Temps D'une Vie at Tarragon Theatre. Critic Brian Freeman says (...)
Clare Coulter plays Rosana and John Jarvis is Willy in Bill Glassco's production of Le Temps D'une Vie at Tarragon Theatre. Critic Brian Freeman says (...)
5/7/1978
Detention home on Jarvis St. hit by Grand Jury. It's in the rear of Juvenile and Family Court of Metro Toronto
Detention home on Jarvis St. hit by Grand Jury. It's in the rear of Juvenile and Family Court of Metro Toronto
1/1/1964
Jumping the years: Gregory Hines (left) plays Duke Ellington (above) in his younger years in song and dance, in Sophisticated Ladies, a show that got some sweet reviews from New York critics
Jumping the years: Gregory Hines (left) plays Duke Ellington (above) in his younger years in song and dance, in Sophisticated Ladies, a show that got some sweet reviews from New York critics
4/28/1981
Preparing for Hamlet, Actor John Jarvis (left), who plays Laertes in Passe Muraille's upcoming production of Hamlet, crosses his rapier with associate(...)
Preparing for Hamlet, Actor John Jarvis (left), who plays Laertes in Passe Muraille's upcoming production of Hamlet, crosses his rapier with associate(...)
11/8/1983
Modern dancer Judy Jarvis plays her upturned piano by plucking the strings with her toes
Modern dancer Judy Jarvis plays her upturned piano by plucking the strings with her toes
10/29/1973
In the jailhouse now: Acting Superintendent James Crawford inspects the jail cell area corridor where new video cameras have been installed in order to keep a closer watch on prisoners
In the jailhouse now: Acting Superintendent James Crawford inspects the jail cell area corridor where new video cameras have been installed in order to keep a closer watch on prisoners
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What did he look like? Metro detectives question one of the children in the Crombie Park area who saw a bearded man walking south on Jarvis St. yester(...)
What did he look like? Metro detectives question one of the children in the Crombie Park area who saw a bearded man walking south on Jarvis St. yester(...)
5/30/1980
Panel controlling all locks in Rexdale's new $15 million jail is tested by Supt. W. L. Barber yesterday. Known officially as the Metropolitan Toronto West Detention Centre it will help ease chronic overcrowding at Toronto (Don) Jail - but my almost doubling its capacity. Officials are facing the challenge of housing 340 inmates in a building designed for 200. The cells will contain two prisoners instead of one.
Panel controlling all locks in Rexdale's new $15 million jail is tested by Supt. W. L. Barber yesterday. Known officially as the Metropolitan Toronto West Detention Centre it will help ease chronic overcrowding at Toronto (Don) Jail - but my almost doubling its capacity. Officials are facing the challenge of housing 340 inmates in a building designed for 200. The cells will contain two prisoners instead of one.
7/13/1977
Windowless cubicle in the basement of Mercer is a detention cell
Windowless cubicle in the basement of Mercer is a detention cell
11/6/1964