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His town: Thanks in part to Victor Lee's vision, Chinese businesses, such as herbalists, restaurants, grocery stores, even a fashion designer, line Gerrard St
His town: Thanks in part to Victor Lee's vision, Chinese businesses, such as herbalists, restaurants, grocery stores, even a fashion designer, line Gerrard St

His town: Thanks in part to Victor Lee's vision, Chinese businesses, such as herbalists, restaurants, grocery stores, even a fashion designer, line Gerrard St

Date2/27/1992
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0129332F
Electronic Pages: Victor Garcia filled his mainframe computer with information about businesses from Metro area Yellow Pages. His operators use the information to telll callers about goods and services near their homes.
Electronic Pages: Victor Garcia filled his mainframe computer with information about businesses from Metro area Yellow Pages. His operators use the information to telll callers about goods and services near their homes.
11/17/1986
Ways to cheat: Geoffrey Hale, policy director for the Canadian Organization of Small Businesses, says store owners can evade the tax man by ringing up no sale and pocketing the cash
Ways to cheat: Geoffrey Hale, policy director for the Canadian Organization of Small Businesses, says store owners can evade the tax man by ringing up no sale and pocketing the cash
3/19/1982
Chef: Toronto is blessed with fine restaurants and even finer chefs, but one of the newest stirring pots and excitement around town is young Mark McEwan, executive chef at the Sutton Place Hotel
Chef: Toronto is blessed with fine restaurants and even finer chefs, but one of the newest stirring pots and excitement around town is young Mark McEwan, executive chef at the Sutton Place Hotel
1/19/1984
Spicy strip: Gerrard St. east of Greenwood Ave. is Toronto's Little India. Naaz cinema (above) is focal point for 43 shops and restaurants selling Asi(...)
Spicy strip: Gerrard St. east of Greenwood Ave. is Toronto's Little India. Naaz cinema (above) is focal point for 43 shops and restaurants selling Asi(...)
5/20/1980
Spicy strip: Gerrard St. east of Greenwood Ave. is Toronto's Little India. Naaz cinema (above) is focal point for 43 shops and restaurants selling Asi(...)
Spicy strip: Gerrard St. east of Greenwood Ave. is Toronto's Little India. Naaz cinema (above) is focal point for 43 shops and restaurants selling Asi(...)
5/9/1980
Paul Kikot, agricultural inspector for the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, spends part of each day in Metro supermaket and grocery stores
Paul Kikot, agricultural inspector for the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, spends part of each day in Metro supermaket and grocery stores
4/21/1971
Representing Businesses hurt by the postal strike, about 75 pickets march outside the Royal York Hotel yesterday, across Front St. from striking postal workers and sympathizers. [Incomplete]
Representing Businesses hurt by the postal strike, about 75 pickets march outside the Royal York Hotel yesterday, across Front St. from striking postal workers and sympathizers. [Incomplete]
10/28/1975
Small businesses like The Golden Barber on Bathurst St
Small businesses like The Golden Barber on Bathurst St
7/12/1983
Show of strength: Hakan Colting, owner of Rent-an-Inflatable Inc., hoists an inflatable pickup truck to show off his company's product. Colting's firm, which operates out of his Newmarket home, supplies businesses with inflatables for use as advertisements.
Show of strength: Hakan Colting, owner of Rent-an-Inflatable Inc., hoists an inflatable pickup truck to show off his company's product. Colting's firm, which operates out of his Newmarket home, supplies businesses with inflatables for use as advertisements.
6/7/1988
Springing into sprouts, Bean sprouts have emerged from Chinese restaurants as Metro's food tastes bud
Springing into sprouts, Bean sprouts have emerged from Chinese restaurants as Metro's food tastes bud
3/17/1981
Slacking seizures: Tough times have forced commercial landlords to negotiate for back rent instead of evicting businesses - and that's hurting his business, says Al Stanley, who works with Dorie Wallace at Durham Balliff Services
Slacking seizures: Tough times have forced commercial landlords to negotiate for back rent instead of evicting businesses - and that's hurting his business, says Al Stanley, who works with Dorie Wallace at Durham Balliff Services
3/20/1992
Financial clout: Jean-Jacques Blais' department spends $10 million a day and the minister isn't blase about the service his source development fund will supply for Canadian businesses
Financial clout: Jean-Jacques Blais' department spends $10 million a day and the minister isn't blase about the service his source development fund will supply for Canadian businesses
1/5/1978