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Renting tea cups, tractors all in a day's work for Peter Manahan
Renting tea cups, tractors all in a day's work for Peter Manahan

Renting tea cups, tractors all in a day's work for Peter Manahan

Date10/2/1978
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0130405F
Invisible wall of opposition greeted bearded Mike Bazilli when he imported 50 Russian diesel tractors to Oakville last spring. He says farmers couldn't get bank loans to buy them, publications refused his ads and other machinery companies cancelled their distribution agreements with him.
Invisible wall of opposition greeted bearded Mike Bazilli when he imported 50 Russian diesel tractors to Oakville last spring. He says farmers couldn't get bank loans to buy them, publications refused his ads and other machinery companies cancelled their distribution agreements with him.
10/27/1970
Digging In: John Radford says he and his partner, Rod Bain, hope their dealers next year will sell 100 to 200 tractors imported from a Spanish company once partly owned by Massey-Ferguson
Digging In: John Radford says he and his partner, Rod Bain, hope their dealers next year will sell 100 to 200 tractors imported from a Spanish company once partly owned by Massey-Ferguson
11/29/1984
Stil homeless: Ulysses Curtis has been trying for 30 years to find a home in the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame in Hamilton. 'Crazy Legs', a former Argo, drank champagne from two Grey Cups. He's now a guidance counsellor at Downsview Secondary School.
Stil homeless: Ulysses Curtis has been trying for 30 years to find a home in the Canadian Football League Hall of Fame in Hamilton. 'Crazy Legs', a former Argo, drank champagne from two Grey Cups. He's now a guidance counsellor at Downsview Secondary School.
1/10/1984
Now that's storage! Ralph Devine says he originally started out renting his huge shipping containers to the growing number of families stuck for storage space because they have to move out of their old homes before the new ones are ready.
Now that's storage! Ralph Devine says he originally started out renting his huge shipping containers to the growing number of families stuck for storage space because they have to move out of their old homes before the new ones are ready.
11/18/1986
Tractor rally: Scarborough farmers driving tractors slow motorists' progress on Beare Rd
Tractor rally: Scarborough farmers driving tractors slow motorists' progress on Beare Rd
5/20/1988
George Beer, 69, shows how today's hard-working commission salesman sets out laden with samples for his day's work. Beer has been working 22 years to form the Ontario Federation of Commission Agents. With 400 members, it has one goal for all: guaranteed commissions for its enterprising members.
George Beer, 69, shows how today's hard-working commission salesman sets out laden with samples for his day's work. Beer has been working 22 years to form the Ontario Federation of Commission Agents. With 400 members, it has one goal for all: guaranteed commissions for its enterprising members.
12/24/1975
Duncan McLean of Waddington's, the McLean family business, and Amy Harney say auctioneering is their cup of tea
Duncan McLean of Waddington's, the McLean family business, and Amy Harney say auctioneering is their cup of tea
11/21/1991
Not his cup of tea: Stuart Daw dines in the Toronto-Dominion Centre before leaving Canada. Though he still has an apartment in Etobicoke, his job is in Florida. He says Canadian federal government restricitions hamstring men of the mind - entrepeneurs like himself who are society's producers.
Not his cup of tea: Stuart Daw dines in the Toronto-Dominion Centre before leaving Canada. Though he still has an apartment in Etobicoke, his job is in Florida. He says Canadian federal government restricitions hamstring men of the mind - entrepeneurs like himself who are society's producers.
9/15/1977
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
Big Jim Leeson parks his Cessna Skyplane, zips up his jacket and goes to pay a house call. By flying, Wiarton's Dr. Leeson figures he's beaten one of the biggest problems facing the progessive rural doctor today: Isolation from his colleagues and the big city medical centres. With his Cessna he can hop down to Toronto in an hour for a lecture. Still, he admits, a rural practice might not be every doctor's cup of tea, I'm a farm boy myself...I'm used to it, he says.
3/10/1970
Fifteen tractors manned by angry farmers block entrance at Caledon landfill site to trucks carrying contaminated soil from Mississauga derailment site yesterday
Fifteen tractors manned by angry farmers block entrance at Caledon landfill site to trucks carrying contaminated soil from Mississauga derailment site yesterday
11/27/1979
Two-way parade of Farmers' Tractors on Highway 10, What they want is $4 a hundredweight for manufactured milk
Two-way parade of Farmers' Tractors on Highway 10, What they want is $4 a hundredweight for manufactured milk
6/24/1966
He Switched from Tractors to Antiques, Noel Hamer has seven men working in his Brooklin garage restoring antique cars
He Switched from Tractors to Antiques, Noel Hamer has seven men working in his Brooklin garage restoring antique cars
11/4/1976