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Restored dredger: Stephen McKean saved this vessel from the scrapyard.
Restored dredger: Stephen McKean saved this vessel from the scrapyard.

Restored dredger: Stephen McKean saved this vessel from the scrapyard.

Date3/15/1991
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0130029F
James McKean of Port Pickering Marina saved the 1915 dredge Primrose (above) and wants to turn it into a floating restaurant like the sketch, right.
James McKean of Port Pickering Marina saved the 1915 dredge Primrose (above) and wants to turn it into a floating restaurant like the sketch, right.
9/1/1992
Magic fingers: Mike Dincu, 33, a graduate sports therapist from the University of Bucharest, has been winning praise from sprinters whose sore and aching limbs Dincu has restored to life with his penetrating massages.
Magic fingers: Mike Dincu, 33, a graduate sports therapist from the University of Bucharest, has been winning praise from sprinters whose sore and aching limbs Dincu has restored to life with his penetrating massages.
9/2/1982
University of Toronto's Don Redford displays fragments of a large wine vessel from 14th- century-BC Egypt
University of Toronto's Don Redford displays fragments of a large wine vessel from 14th- century-BC Egypt
9/7/1977
heologist John Morrison delicately assembles a 13th-century Indian king vessel from pieces he has excavated
heologist John Morrison delicately assembles a 13th-century Indian king vessel from pieces he has excavated
6/13/1972
Professor Fred DeLory, (above) who teaches civil engineering at University of Toronto, restored 60-year-old steamboat from a Connecticut estate and it now chugs around Toronto harbor, attaining speeds up to 9 m.p.h. It's still unnamed.
Professor Fred DeLory, (above) who teaches civil engineering at University of Toronto, restored 60-year-old steamboat from a Connecticut estate and it now chugs around Toronto harbor, attaining speeds up to 9 m.p.h. It's still unnamed.
7/22/1974
Professor Fred DeLory, (above) who teaches civil engineering at University of Toronto, restored 60-year-old steamboat from a Connecticut estate and it now chugs around Toronto harbor, attaining speeds up to 9 m.p.h. It's still unnamed.
Professor Fred DeLory, (above) who teaches civil engineering at University of Toronto, restored 60-year-old steamboat from a Connecticut estate and it now chugs around Toronto harbor, attaining speeds up to 9 m.p.h. It's still unnamed.
7/22/1974
Job well done:L Dr. Marvin Tile, head of orthopedic surgery at Sunnybrook Medical Centre, talks to 19-year-old Kevin Hansen, a student from Lowa, after an operation on Kevin's smashed hip socket that likely saved him from life in a wheelchair. Tile is one of North America's leading authorities on hip-socket surgery, performed at only a few hospitals in North America.
Job well done:L Dr. Marvin Tile, head of orthopedic surgery at Sunnybrook Medical Centre, talks to 19-year-old Kevin Hansen, a student from Lowa, after an operation on Kevin's smashed hip socket that likely saved him from life in a wheelchair. Tile is one of North America's leading authorities on hip-socket surgery, performed at only a few hospitals in North America.
11/18/1983
Burned while pulling a 9-year-old girl to safety from a burning car and trying to rescue another child, Gordon Gillespie of North York sits up in Scarborough General Hospital. He and his son, Terry, 21, saved Fiorella D'Alfonso but her sister Maria, 11, b
Burned while pulling a 9-year-old girl to safety from a burning car and trying to rescue another child, Gordon Gillespie of North York sits up in Scarborough General Hospital. He and his son, Terry, 21, saved Fiorella D'Alfonso but her sister Maria, 11, b
2/10/1975
Brian McWilliams - Saved woman from drowning (Sheryl Smith)
Brian McWilliams - Saved woman from drowning (Sheryl Smith)
11/27/1996
He saved her: Stan Misa, 41, holds 8-year-old Beverley Pypher, whom he rescued from a burning apartment yesterday
He saved her: Stan Misa, 41, holds 8-year-old Beverley Pypher, whom he rescued from a burning apartment yesterday
10/24/1981
DR. DOuglas Crozier saved our active and healthy son, reader says. Six year ago he was only months away from death, James Taylor writes.
DR. DOuglas Crozier saved our active and healthy son, reader says. Six year ago he was only months away from death, James Taylor writes.
10/8/1974
Faneuil Hall Marketplace: Saved from the wreckers and restored, this area is now one of Boston's most popular attractions
Faneuil Hall Marketplace: Saved from the wreckers and restored, this area is now one of Boston's most popular attractions
4/16/1985