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Safe home at last, Bernie Lesage (left), 27, walks with his wife and Toronto Star reporter Jim Foster, out of Customs Halll at Toronto International Airport, after successfully completing mission to fix a boat on the Amazon River
Safe home at last, Bernie Lesage (left), 27, walks with his wife and Toronto Star reporter Jim Foster, out of Customs Halll at Toronto International Airport, after successfully completing mission to fix a boat on the Amazon River

Safe home at last, Bernie Lesage (left), 27, walks with his wife and Toronto Star reporter Jim Foster, out of Customs Halll at Toronto International Airport, after successfully completing mission to fix a boat on the Amazon River

Date5/10/1970
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0129389F
Bernie the boatman-Bernie Lesage, 27, of Delta Dr
Bernie the boatman-Bernie Lesage, 27, of Delta Dr
5/12/1970
Crowds of newly arrived air passengers wait to go through customs at Toronto International Airport
Crowds of newly arrived air passengers wait to go through customs at Toronto International Airport
10/9/1967
Nose for Narcotics: Canada Customs handler Chris Sharpe and Blue, a 2-year-old yellow Lab, search baggage-carrying trams for drugs at Pearson International Airport
Nose for Narcotics: Canada Customs handler Chris Sharpe and Blue, a 2-year-old yellow Lab, search baggage-carrying trams for drugs at Pearson International Airport
3/17/1991
Department of Transport workers walks off the job in a wildcat strike at Toronto International Airport's control tower today. The 120 striking technic(...)
Department of Transport workers walks off the job in a wildcat strike at Toronto International Airport's control tower today. The 120 striking technic(...)
9/30/1969
Doris Boudreau walks through one of the detectors at Toronto International Airport's new Terminal 2 yesterday
Doris Boudreau walks through one of the detectors at Toronto International Airport's new Terminal 2 yesterday
4/29/1973
Porn from Buffalo: Sunday Star reporter Tim Harper displays material he was able to bring through customs
Porn from Buffalo: Sunday Star reporter Tim Harper displays material he was able to bring through customs
3/21/1985
Cornered at the customs gate by Star reporter Frank Rasky (left), soprano Maria Callas last night graciously accepted a bouquet of red roses of up to (...)
Cornered at the customs gate by Star reporter Frank Rasky (left), soprano Maria Callas last night graciously accepted a bouquet of red roses of up to (...)
2/19/1974
Toronto Star reporter Val Sears walks through the grounds of Clarence House with the Queen Mother
Toronto Star reporter Val Sears walks through the grounds of Clarence House with the Queen Mother
n.d.
Game of chinese checkers is enjoyed by Professor James Lemon, his wife Carolyn and children Catherine, 1, Janet, 4, and margaret, 9, in their Walmer Road home. Although earning a salary of $15,000 teaching geography at the University of Toronto, Dr. Lemon describes his living as relatively frugal and finds the family budget getting tight. Although he has a car, he walks to work.
Game of chinese checkers is enjoyed by Professor James Lemon, his wife Carolyn and children Catherine, 1, Janet, 4, and margaret, 9, in their Walmer Road home. Although earning a salary of $15,000 teaching geography at the University of Toronto, Dr. Lemon describes his living as relatively frugal and finds the family budget getting tight. Although he has a car, he walks to work.
7/10/1969
Shouting 'Vive Free Hungary' leather-jacketed 27-year-old Geza Matrai, of Toronto, leaps on back of Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin as he walks with Pri(...)
Shouting 'Vive Free Hungary' leather-jacketed 27-year-old Geza Matrai, of Toronto, leaps on back of Soviet Premier Alexei Kosygin as he walks with Pri(...)
10/18/1971
On his 77th attempt to get a job ? which was successful ? 27-year-old Duncan Day walks through downtown Toronto yesterday. He came to Canada from Engl(...)
On his 77th attempt to get a job ? which was successful ? 27-year-old Duncan Day walks through downtown Toronto yesterday. He came to Canada from Engl(...)
3/26/1974
Tortured. By Peter Rickwood Toronto Star. A 33-year-old Canadian Sikh say he got on help from the Canadian High Commission when police in India detained and tortured him as he was about to fly home. Dalbar Sidhu, a Kitchener auto worker, told a Toronto news conference yesterday he was held at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport for two days. He claims he was denied foor and seep, was threatened with revolver and had his fingernails pulled and hair tugged out of his beard and scalp. His wife Satwant, who was travelling with him, contacted the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi after his arrest said. [Incomplete]
Tortured. By Peter Rickwood Toronto Star. A 33-year-old Canadian Sikh say he got on help from the Canadian High Commission when police in India detained and tortured him as he was about to fly home. Dalbar Sidhu, a Kitchener auto worker, told a Toronto news conference yesterday he was held at New Delhi's Indira Gandhi International Airport for two days. He claims he was denied foor and seep, was threatened with revolver and had his fingernails pulled and hair tugged out of his beard and scalp. His wife Satwant, who was travelling with him, contacted the Canadian High Commission in New Delhi after his arrest said. [Incomplete]
1/29/1986