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Macklin Hancock: The Harvard trained planner, now 59, was just 28 when he led the team that designed Don Mills.
Macklin Hancock: The Harvard trained planner, now 59, was just 28 when he led the team that designed Don Mills.

Macklin Hancock: The Harvard trained planner, now 59, was just 28 when he led the team that designed Don Mills.

Date6/15/1982
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0128145F
Top dollar: Donald Paterson, a Don Mills graphic designer, displays a drawing of the 1980 silver dollar, which he designed
Top dollar: Donald Paterson, a Don Mills graphic designer, displays a drawing of the 1980 silver dollar, which he designed
2/5/1980
Architechture and design, George Baird, architect and urban planner, A native of Toronto Baired is founder-partner of Baird or Sampson Architects, a professor of architecture at the U of T and Harvard and author of Meaning In Architecture and The Space Of Appearance, focusing on architechtural theory.
Architechture and design, George Baird, architect and urban planner, A native of Toronto Baired is founder-partner of Baird or Sampson Architects, a professor of architecture at the U of T and Harvard and author of Meaning In Architecture and The Space Of Appearance, focusing on architechtural theory.
9/10/1992
New options: Architect Allan Graham, left, designed new townhouses in Don Mills. Exteriors are identical but different floor plans are designed.
New options: Architect Allan Graham, left, designed new townhouses in Don Mills. Exteriors are identical but different floor plans are designed.
9/17/1980
Exotic Don Mills: David Graham, a banker by day and car builder by night, says his California-designed Gatsby is a great car.
Exotic Don Mills: David Graham, a banker by day and car builder by night, says his California-designed Gatsby is a great car.
10/9/1986
More versatile: Spartec president Andrew Mills, right, who designed the controller, and vice-president George Eastman say the multi-drive controller can reduce the large number of different models distributors have had to carry
More versatile: Spartec president Andrew Mills, right, who designed the controller, and vice-president George Eastman say the multi-drive controller can reduce the large number of different models distributors have had to carry
3/7/1997
Architect Istvan Lendvay sits on don Mills lawn he hasn't mowed since May - it's a protest against neighbors who let their dogs use lawn as a bathroom
Architect Istvan Lendvay sits on don Mills lawn he hasn't mowed since May - it's a protest against neighbors who let their dogs use lawn as a bathroom
7/18/1978
Same home: Though he has sold thousands of new homes during the past 30 years, Mike Rogow and his wife Anita still live in the same Don Mills bungalow they bought in 1957
Same home: Though he has sold thousands of new homes during the past 30 years, Mike Rogow and his wife Anita still live in the same Don Mills bungalow they bought in 1957
1/28/1985
Soft sell: Interactive chief Joseph Koenig developed software that's now out in five languages and used from Seneca College to Harvard University.
Soft sell: Interactive chief Joseph Koenig developed software that's now out in five languages and used from Seneca College to Harvard University.
2/17/1996
It has to be widened, says Metro traffic commissioner Sam Cass of the Don Valley Parkway as he stands on footbridge crossing it at Riverdale Zoo. Planners estimate it will cost $15 million to widen parkway an extra two lanes, and it's not the right solution adds Cass. In addition, two other street widening programs will cost another $9 million. Cass blames halting of the Spadina Expressway.
It has to be widened, says Metro traffic commissioner Sam Cass of the Don Valley Parkway as he stands on footbridge crossing it at Riverdale Zoo. Planners estimate it will cost $15 million to widen parkway an extra two lanes, and it's not the right solution adds Cass. In addition, two other street widening programs will cost another $9 million. Cass blames halting of the Spadina Expressway.
11/12/1971
Just 5 votes apart in the final voting for the NDP nomination in York Mills, 21-year-old Mike Morrone (left) sits on platform beside 18-year-old John Syrtash as they field questions from meeting
Just 5 votes apart in the final voting for the NDP nomination in York Mills, 21-year-old Mike Morrone (left) sits on platform beside 18-year-old John Syrtash as they field questions from meeting
8/11/1971
Just Dozin: National Slag president Ken Spencer isn't shy about singing the praises of his company's product: stag from the steel mills, stored in piles at Hamilton Harbor
Just Dozin: National Slag president Ken Spencer isn't shy about singing the praises of his company's product: stag from the steel mills, stored in piles at Hamilton Harbor
2/9/1989
Busy man: John Herrick, who has just become chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, is also chairman of General Mills Canada and chief operating officer at law firm Borden and Elliot
Busy man: John Herrick, who has just become chairman of the Chamber of Commerce, is also chairman of General Mills Canada and chief operating officer at law firm Borden and Elliot
9/24/1987