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Flag flying: Ruby and Wally Hamilton of Scarborough watch as rainbow flag is raised for first time at City Hall yesterday prior to Pride Day parade Sunday
Flag flying: Ruby and Wally Hamilton of Scarborough watch as rainbow flag is raised for first time at City Hall yesterday prior to Pride Day parade Sunday

Flag flying: Ruby and Wally Hamilton of Scarborough watch as rainbow flag is raised for first time at City Hall yesterday prior to Pride Day parade Sunday

Date6/21/1993
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0128135F
Municipal flag expert: Scarborough teacher and librarian Kevin Harrington is unfurling facts about the growth of flags in Canadian cities and towns at an International conference on vexillology (study of flags) this week in Madrid, Spain
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For first time the Red Ensign in raised on the city hall flag pole by civic employee Malcolm Bell, replacing traditional Union Jack. Edgar Norris, cit(...)
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Flag that binds: Allan Black of Oshawa has designed a unity flag for Canada. It has 12 compass roses to represent the equality of the provinces and territories. He hopes flags will help people think about their country.
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Revoluntionary banner: Maurice and Elva Newton are so confident they'll win battle to turn backe clock and get rid of regional government that they've made a new flag, adding the former Nassagaweya township emblem to the Ontario flag
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Tejinder Singh Kaloe, 36 (left), a Hamilton businessman described as a lieutenant in the Babbar Khalsa, leaves a Hamilton court with lawyer Clayton Ruby beside him
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