Skip to main content
Digital Archive Toronto Public Library Homepage
Walter Beath has traded in his chain of office and gavel for the rural life on his 200-acre beef farm in Oshawa.
Walter Beath has traded in his chain of office and gavel for the rural life on his 200-acre beef farm in Oshawa.

Walter Beath has traded in his chain of office and gavel for the rural life on his 200-acre beef farm in Oshawa.

Date3/24/1981
Names
Format
Medium
Language
ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0125306F
His beef: Michael Davidson of the Kensington Patty Palace holds a stack of what he has known all his life as patties - but which authorities now have told him are meat pies.
His beef: Michael Davidson of the Kensington Patty Palace holds a stack of what he has known all his life as patties - but which authorities now have told him are meat pies.
2/15/1985
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
Final check: John Crook of Oshawa inspects one of the steam engines he has built. Some of his collection will be on display at the Steam Threshing Days in Uxbridge this weekend. He grew to love steam engines while helping on his father's farm in the 1930s.
Final check: John Crook of Oshawa inspects one of the steam engines he has built. Some of his collection will be on display at the Steam Threshing Days in Uxbridge this weekend. He grew to love steam engines while helping on his father's farm in the 1930s.
8/4/1989
Retired rural mailman Hugh Strong leans on one of the 200 mailboxes along his old route southeast of Port Perry
Retired rural mailman Hugh Strong leans on one of the 200 mailboxes along his old route southeast of Port Perry
7/19/1978
Uncle Frank Dawson tends to one of his injured wildfowl at his 3 3/4-acre conservation area on Elmcrest Rd. The 83-year-old bachelor has been patching up injured birds for as long as anyone can remember. With a small creek running through the back, his property has become a haven for hundreds of waterfowl. He has lived in the same house for over 50 years and has raised a varietyof birds. But Dawson can't recall when people started to bring birds to him, he said.
Uncle Frank Dawson tends to one of his injured wildfowl at his 3 3/4-acre conservation area on Elmcrest Rd. The 83-year-old bachelor has been patching up injured birds for as long as anyone can remember. With a small creek running through the back, his property has become a haven for hundreds of waterfowl. He has lived in the same house for over 50 years and has raised a varietyof birds. But Dawson can't recall when people started to bring birds to him, he said.
9/1/1978
Treasure of Whiterock Estates, Ronald Bluestein sits in his office in downtown Toronto explaining his company's real estate operations in Ontario. He is one of three principals in the firm which subdivides farm land, and then aggressively sells lots with the slogan Own a Piece of Canada. A team of Star investigators has disclosed that titles to many of the Whiterock Estates lots are faulty.
Treasure of Whiterock Estates, Ronald Bluestein sits in his office in downtown Toronto explaining his company's real estate operations in Ontario. He is one of three principals in the firm which subdivides farm land, and then aggressively sells lots with the slogan Own a Piece of Canada. A team of Star investigators has disclosed that titles to many of the Whiterock Estates lots are faulty.
9/10/1971
Second career: Nathan Gold found he couldn't stand retirement back in 1967, so he bought into the Town and Country women's wear chain and has built it into a 200-store empire
Second career: Nathan Gold found he couldn't stand retirement back in 1967, so he bought into the Town and Country women's wear chain and has built it into a 200-store empire
9/25/1981
Second career: Nathan Gold found he couldn't stand retirement back in 1967, so he bought into the Town and Country women's wear chain and has built it into a 200-store empire
Second career: Nathan Gold found he couldn't stand retirement back in 1967, so he bought into the Town and Country women's wear chain and has built it into a 200-store empire
9/25/1981
By Lynn Moore Toronto Star. Shean Campbell, a man with a checkered past, is a vibrant link in a chain providing food to the working poor and disadvantaged. Campbell, 55, has been operating a food bank out of his family's Brampton apartment for more than a year, providing a conduit for mountains of donated food. Three weeknights and on Saturdays, his three-bedroom apartment is crammed with people and food. [Incomplete]
By Lynn Moore Toronto Star. Shean Campbell, a man with a checkered past, is a vibrant link in a chain providing food to the working poor and disadvantaged. Campbell, 55, has been operating a food bank out of his family's Brampton apartment for more than a year, providing a conduit for mountains of donated food. Three weeknights and on Saturdays, his three-bedroom apartment is crammed with people and food. [Incomplete]
12/10/1987
His love of music, stamps shows in 200 small ways , By Jonathan Goodman, For the past 20 years Robert Binnie has combined his interest in stamps and music.
His love of music, stamps shows in 200 small ways , By Jonathan Goodman, For the past 20 years Robert Binnie has combined his interest in stamps and music.
11/19/1985
Last summer, he sold encyclopedias. This summer, university student Mark Dingman is selling himself - as the first prize in an unusual raffle. Dingman 21, of Toronto, has decided to raffle himself - or more precisely, 16 hours of his time - to make money for school. I wanted to run my own business. This took minimum capitalization and had minimal risk, should it fail, said Dingman, a McGill University student. And it seems like a good skill to learn, to sell yourself. Dingman is going door-to-door with his Student Slaves raffle and a very professional pitch. Tickets go for $1.99 each (or three for $5) and there are 200 in each draw. The first raffle is scheduled for Tuesday and the winner gets Dingman for 16 hours to do anything from cleaning ovens to fixing eavestroughs.
Last summer, he sold encyclopedias. This summer, university student Mark Dingman is selling himself - as the first prize in an unusual raffle. Dingman 21, of Toronto, has decided to raffle himself - or more precisely, 16 hours of his time - to make money for school. I wanted to run my own business. This took minimum capitalization and had minimal risk, should it fail, said Dingman, a McGill University student. And it seems like a good skill to learn, to sell yourself. Dingman is going door-to-door with his Student Slaves raffle and a very professional pitch. Tickets go for $1.99 each (or three for $5) and there are 200 in each draw. The first raffle is scheduled for Tuesday and the winner gets Dingman for 16 hours to do anything from cleaning ovens to fixing eavestroughs.
7/5/1984
Joe Rinella proudly holds up some of the fresh produce that has helped lure a loyal band of customers to his Carlton Food Mart -- and enabled him to compete against the country-wide chains
Joe Rinella proudly holds up some of the fresh produce that has helped lure a loyal band of customers to his Carlton Food Mart -- and enabled him to compete against the country-wide chains
1/11/1978