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Gertrude and Peter Peloquin have lived year-round for decades - and raised six daughters - in a cabin without hydro or telephone.
Gertrude and Peter Peloquin have lived year-round for decades - and raised six daughters - in a cabin without hydro or telephone.

Gertrude and Peter Peloquin have lived year-round for decades - and raised six daughters - in a cabin without hydro or telephone.

Date1/9/1975
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0131973F
Surgeon emeritus: Dr. Norman Delarue, Canada's first crusader in the antismoking movement, was harassed and teased in the early days. Now, retired after decades as a busy surgeon, he has seen the movement grow and only regrets that smoking will not vanish
Surgeon emeritus: Dr. Norman Delarue, Canada's first crusader in the antismoking movement, was harassed and teased in the early days. Now, retired after decades as a busy surgeon, he has seen the movement grow and only regrets that smoking will not vanish
5/16/1986
Server gets served: John Onderisin, 60, is retiring this week after nearly four decades of providing room service to the great, near-great and not so great at Toronto's Royal York Hotel
Server gets served: John Onderisin, 60, is retiring this week after nearly four decades of providing room service to the great, near-great and not so great at Toronto's Royal York Hotel
6/25/1985
Peter Peloquin at his fishing camp in paradise 38 miles from Sudbury
Peter Peloquin at his fishing camp in paradise 38 miles from Sudbury
1/9/1975
A dream come true for former Scarborough insurance man Frederick Carlisle is his three-hulled Caravel II. He bought it 5 years ago for $25,000 and has cruised more than 20,000 miles with his daughters Nora, 11 (left) and Mary, 13, (right) and his wife. During the five-year getaway on the world's oceans the girls managed to pick up six years' credits on their correspondence courses. The Carlisles are thinking of crossing the Atlantic Ocean a second time next year.
A dream come true for former Scarborough insurance man Frederick Carlisle is his three-hulled Caravel II. He bought it 5 years ago for $25,000 and has cruised more than 20,000 miles with his daughters Nora, 11 (left) and Mary, 13, (right) and his wife. During the five-year getaway on the world's oceans the girls managed to pick up six years' credits on their correspondence courses. The Carlisles are thinking of crossing the Atlantic Ocean a second time next year.
9/3/1970
Home: During the last decades of his life, John Pearson, inset, lived in the attractive house he designed in 1924 at 120 Forest Hill Rd
Home: During the last decades of his life, John Pearson, inset, lived in the attractive house he designed in 1924 at 120 Forest Hill Rd
4/16/1990
Spadina Ave.-now and 64 years ago. Toronto has expanded south as well as north, east and west in the past six decades. The view (bottom) of the south (...)
Spadina Ave.-now and 64 years ago. Toronto has expanded south as well as north, east and west in the past six decades. The view (bottom) of the south (...)
4/21/1971
Uncle Frank Dawson tends to one of his injured wildfowl at his 3 3/4-acre conservation area on Elmcrest Rd. The 83-year-old bachelor has been patching up injured birds for as long as anyone can remember. With a small creek running through the back, his property has become a haven for hundreds of waterfowl. He has lived in the same house for over 50 years and has raised a varietyof birds. But Dawson can't recall when people started to bring birds to him, he said.
Uncle Frank Dawson tends to one of his injured wildfowl at his 3 3/4-acre conservation area on Elmcrest Rd. The 83-year-old bachelor has been patching up injured birds for as long as anyone can remember. With a small creek running through the back, his property has become a haven for hundreds of waterfowl. He has lived in the same house for over 50 years and has raised a varietyof birds. But Dawson can't recall when people started to bring birds to him, he said.
9/1/1978
It was another world . . . Horace (Lefty) Gwynne treasures the mementos of six decades ago: The Olympic gold medal he won in Los Angeles, alongside ot(...)
It was another world . . . Horace (Lefty) Gwynne treasures the mementos of six decades ago: The Olympic gold medal he won in Los Angeles, alongside ot(...)
8/7/1984
Jack Dancygier gives his attention to customer Lou Sugar in his barber shop at Adelaide and Peter Sts. His manicurist is Gilda Facoetti. A survivor of the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, Jack is grateful for the peace that has come to him and wife in Canada, where they have raised three sons. He and his wife were married secretly by a rabbi in a concentration camp. Their first son was born there, too.
Jack Dancygier gives his attention to customer Lou Sugar in his barber shop at Adelaide and Peter Sts. His manicurist is Gilda Facoetti. A survivor of the concentration camps of Nazi Germany, Jack is grateful for the peace that has come to him and wife in Canada, where they have raised three sons. He and his wife were married secretly by a rabbi in a concentration camp. Their first son was born there, too.
7/5/1973
Proud man of the year, Fred Johnson, 44, is kissed by daughters, Carol (left), 14, Cathy, 17
Proud man of the year, Fred Johnson, 44, is kissed by daughters, Carol (left), 14, Cathy, 17
4/17/1978
Is there a rickshaw in your future? The gasoline shortage doesn't bother Lorne Shields, a 30-year-old Downsview manufacturers' agent, as he takes his wife Suzanne and their daughters Jessica, 2, and Rebecca, 7 months, for a spin in the rickshaw be just imported from Taiwan to add to bicycle collection
Is there a rickshaw in your future? The gasoline shortage doesn't bother Lorne Shields, a 30-year-old Downsview manufacturers' agent, as he takes his wife Suzanne and their daughters Jessica, 2, and Rebecca, 7 months, for a spin in the rickshaw be just imported from Taiwan to add to bicycle collection
11/6/1973
A family without a home, John Edward Norton sits with his wife, Annie Mae, and 17-year-old daughter Greer who holds their 9-year-old daughter Alwyne, a cerebral palsy victim, in one of the three crowded rooms on the third storey of the Gilbert Hotel in downtown Trenton
A family without a home, John Edward Norton sits with his wife, Annie Mae, and 17-year-old daughter Greer who holds their 9-year-old daughter Alwyne, a cerebral palsy victim, in one of the three crowded rooms on the third storey of the Gilbert Hotel in downtown Trenton
12/14/1971