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When the chips are down: Potato chips manufacturer Peter Margie says high potato prices set by marketing boards, higher production costs and duties make it difficult for him to compete against the Americans
When the chips are down: Potato chips manufacturer Peter Margie says high potato prices set by marketing boards, higher production costs and duties make it difficult for him to compete against the Americans

When the chips are down: Potato chips manufacturer Peter Margie says high potato prices set by marketing boards, higher production costs and duties make it difficult for him to compete against the Americans

Date11/1/1991
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0130473F
Feeling Chipper: Peter Margie is up to his nose in potato chips. And he hopes to cash in on our love of the confection.
Feeling Chipper: Peter Margie is up to his nose in potato chips. And he hopes to cash in on our love of the confection.
2/23/1989
Junk food addict: Terrilyn Joe walks through the CITY - TV newsroom eating junk food - pop, potato chips, and chocolate
Junk food addict: Terrilyn Joe walks through the CITY - TV newsroom eating junk food - pop, potato chips, and chocolate
1/22/1985
Stamps with chips: Midhurst customers say they're happy to get mail and stamps over same counter they get chips and pickling spices at Bruce and Linda McDonald's store
Stamps with chips: Midhurst customers say they're happy to get mail and stamps over same counter they get chips and pickling spices at Bruce and Linda McDonald's store
10/27/1988
Fish 'n chips defy trend, Ron Bruce: Hand-cuts up to 150 pounds of potatoes a day, Ron Bruce is one of a vanishing breed, the English fish 'n chips man.
Fish 'n chips defy trend, Ron Bruce: Hand-cuts up to 150 pounds of potatoes a day, Ron Bruce is one of a vanishing breed, the English fish 'n chips man.
11/22/1978
And that's a lot of Lettuce, Young lettuce for the salad bowls of Metro is tilled by Chip Rupke, of Chip's Gardens in the Holland Marsh, riding his tr(...)
And that's a lot of Lettuce, Young lettuce for the salad bowls of Metro is tilled by Chip Rupke, of Chip's Gardens in the Holland Marsh, riding his tr(...)
7/11/1974
World of high finance, blue chips and investment, the Rotonto stock exchange, is another Male stronghold that's fallen with female invasion. Frances C(...)
World of high finance, blue chips and investment, the Rotonto stock exchange, is another Male stronghold that's fallen with female invasion. Frances C(...)
4/6/1966
Now what? Ivan Steiner of Mr. Fish and Chips
Now what? Ivan Steiner of Mr. Fish and Chips
1/20/1981
Fireman with a cold job, Noel Clarke chips away the ice from the bow of the fireboat Wm
Fireman with a cold job, Noel Clarke chips away the ice from the bow of the fireboat Wm
1/1/1970
Onion dip: With the chips, it's a meal
Onion dip: With the chips, it's a meal
8/28/1980
Lipton: From Harvard Business School to fish and chips
Lipton: From Harvard Business School to fish and chips
5/3/1979
On welfare and without money to buy food for herself and her husband, Dave, Catherine Thibodeau of Weston asked pizza parlor owner Paul Heisler for a pizza on credit, instead he brought them fish and chips and offered Thibodeau a job
On welfare and without money to buy food for herself and her husband, Dave, Catherine Thibodeau of Weston asked pizza parlor owner Paul Heisler for a pizza on credit, instead he brought them fish and chips and offered Thibodeau a job
11/13/1974
Batter up. Dave Johnston's daughters Stacey, foreground, and Katie enjoy his famous fish and chips
Batter up. Dave Johnston's daughters Stacey, foreground, and Katie enjoy his famous fish and chips
7/15/1992