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Big business: Top model agents Judy Welch and Elmer Olsen have entered into business union.
Big business: Top model agents Judy Welch and Elmer Olsen have entered into business union.

Big business: Top model agents Judy Welch and Elmer Olsen have entered into business union.

Date1/26/1982
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0131706F
On her way: Budding model Brandy Kusmack goes shopping with agent Elmer Olsen. Below, she's ready for the camera.
On her way: Budding model Brandy Kusmack goes shopping with agent Elmer Olsen. Below, she's ready for the camera.
5/28/1992
Mike Connolly: He and Powell planned to seek election as union business agents.
Mike Connolly: He and Powell planned to seek election as union business agents.
6/3/1986
Rising star: Emma Booth, 15, flanked by agent Elmer Olsen, is chosen as a finalist in Elite model contest
Rising star: Emma Booth, 15, flanked by agent Elmer Olsen, is chosen as a finalist in Elite model contest
8/6/1992
Right, hairdresser Elmer Olsen is a bits and pieces dresser. He's paired puttee - style pants and polished brown cattle boots from his father's farm.
Right, hairdresser Elmer Olsen is a bits and pieces dresser. He's paired puttee - style pants and polished brown cattle boots from his father's farm.
3/8/1982
Group rates feared: Plans for group coverage for home and auto insurance could harm small inndependent agents, says Don Jamieson, president of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Ontario
Group rates feared: Plans for group coverage for home and auto insurance could harm small inndependent agents, says Don Jamieson, president of the Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of Ontario
10/30/1979
No sale: Frank Pougnet stands beside the sign he has put up on his Mississauga door to discourage real estate agents from offering to sell his house which backs on to a golf course near Dixie
No sale: Frank Pougnet stands beside the sign he has put up on his Mississauga door to discourage real estate agents from offering to sell his house which backs on to a golf course near Dixie
4/6/1987
The 10 cats 47-year-old Joseph Pechoc kept in a tent on the roof of the office building where he is a maintenance man were taken away by agents of the Toronto Humane Society yesterday, so he took out the electric heater with which he'd kept them warm
The 10 cats 47-year-old Joseph Pechoc kept in a tent on the roof of the office building where he is a maintenance man were taken away by agents of the Toronto Humane Society yesterday, so he took out the electric heater with which he'd kept them warm
11/25/1975
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
George II: Nobody at Camp X, the secret spy school near Oshawa during World War II that trained British agents, went by surnames, its senior radio man recalls. George Carothers became George II because the service had already signed up a George.
George II: Nobody at Camp X, the secret spy school near Oshawa during World War II that trained British agents, went by surnames, its senior radio man recalls. George Carothers became George II because the service had already signed up a George.
6/13/1979
Terms to agents : ... your esteemed favor is received, we shall be pleased to have you act as our agent, enclosed find circulars of our new book The art of money making
Terms to agents : ... your esteemed favor is received, we shall be pleased to have you act as our agent, enclosed find circulars of our new book The art of money making
1870 circa
Toronto's oldest Redcap, Jake Charendoff, sits waiting for new business at Toronto's Union Station, while behind him sits redcap Bert Fortune. Charendoff picked up his first piece of baggage at Union Station on the day it opened in 1927. But, although he claims the title oldest, he refuses to say exactly how old he is.
Toronto's oldest Redcap, Jake Charendoff, sits waiting for new business at Toronto's Union Station, while behind him sits redcap Bert Fortune. Charendoff picked up his first piece of baggage at Union Station on the day it opened in 1927. But, although he claims the title oldest, he refuses to say exactly how old he is.
1/24/1972
At work: For a top executive of a multi-million dollar business Marty Silver looks sort of informal surrounded by huge rolls of material used in his furniture business
At work: For a top executive of a multi-million dollar business Marty Silver looks sort of informal surrounded by huge rolls of material used in his furniture business
8/14/1984