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Winning clients: Edmund Gosse, Sun Life's Canadian property manager, sits beside a $30,000 model of Toronto, used to help sell his company's office towers to potential tenants
Winning clients: Edmund Gosse, Sun Life's Canadian property manager, sits beside a $30,000 model of Toronto, used to help sell his company's office towers to potential tenants

Winning clients: Edmund Gosse, Sun Life's Canadian property manager, sits beside a $30,000 model of Toronto, used to help sell his company's office towers to potential tenants

Date9/23/1984
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0127846F
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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.
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