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Chopping problems down to size: Developer Gordon Bacque picks up his axe and cuts firewood when the going gets tough.
Chopping problems down to size: Developer Gordon Bacque picks up his axe and cuts firewood when the going gets tough.

Chopping problems down to size: Developer Gordon Bacque picks up his axe and cuts firewood when the going gets tough.

Date10/25/1980
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0125131F
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Beans bonanza: A customer (top) picks over the bean bins at Casa Acorean while owner's son John Pavao breaks out a sack.
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James Lucas, left, John De Boer, centre, and Gordon Bacque tour complex
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W.C. Leonard: Unification . . . with its fiddling, chopping and changing undermined standards.
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Protest begins: Stephen Magwood, president of the High Park Homeowners and Residents Association, cuts a ribbon to signal the start of protests outside Exodus Link, a new counselling centre for paroled federal prisoners
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