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Risked lives: Andy Patterson, 32, flanked by Dean Ribble (left), 12, and his brother, George, 10, dragged Patterson's 12-year-old son, Billy, screaming from a Mississauga building after 8,000 volts shot through the boy's body when he caught a foot in a transformer room
Risked lives: Andy Patterson, 32, flanked by Dean Ribble (left), 12, and his brother, George, 10, dragged Patterson's 12-year-old son, Billy, screaming from a Mississauga building after 8,000 volts shot through the boy's body when he caught a foot in a transformer room

Risked lives: Andy Patterson, 32, flanked by Dean Ribble (left), 12, and his brother, George, 10, dragged Patterson's 12-year-old son, Billy, screaming from a Mississauga building after 8,000 volts shot through the boy's body when he caught a foot in a transformer room

Date2/28/1980
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Robert Patterson Don Mills architectural assistant new North York board of education trustee for word 12
Robert Patterson Don Mills architectural assistant new North York board of education trustee for word 12
6/29/1971
First-hand view: Ukrainians who risked lives to save Jews from the Nazis during World War II were the rule, not the exception, says Dr. George Kulchycky, above, with pictures of family members who died in prison camps.
First-hand view: Ukrainians who risked lives to save Jews from the Nazis during World War II were the rule, not the exception, says Dr. George Kulchycky, above, with pictures of family members who died in prison camps.
6/11/1980
A trunkful: A Custom-built cabinet contains the amplifiers and two remote-control cartridge units, one taking six cassettes, the other 12 CDs---plus a 12-volt battery
A trunkful: A Custom-built cabinet contains the amplifiers and two remote-control cartridge units, one taking six cassettes, the other 12 CDs---plus a 12-volt battery
4/14/1988
Billy Patterson raised $150 for Terry
Billy Patterson raised $150 for Terry
9/7/1980
A specialist in children's dentistry, Mississauga dentist Art Wood created a mouthguard for young hockey players with Charles Patterson, a neighbor an(...)
A specialist in children's dentistry, Mississauga dentist Art Wood created a mouthguard for young hockey players with Charles Patterson, a neighbor an(...)
7/4/1972
Singing family: Ren and Suzanne Elgie sing at Pine Ridge Presbyterian Church with their children, from left, Christopher, 8, Justin, 10, Angela, 12, Victor, 9 and Nicholas, 6. The family lives for nine months of the year in a poor area of Pueblo, Mexico.
Singing family: Ren and Suzanne Elgie sing at Pine Ridge Presbyterian Church with their children, from left, Christopher, 8, Justin, 10, Angela, 12, Victor, 9 and Nicholas, 6. The family lives for nine months of the year in a poor area of Pueblo, Mexico.
7/4/1985
Campaigning by horse and buggy, Gordon Clarke, running for alderman in Scarborough's Ward 12, hands a pamphlet to his neighbor Aubrey Crowhurst, who owns the horse, My Lenny Boy, and the buggy, an antique built by the McLaughlin Carriage Works. Clarke lives in a century-old farmhouse off Meadow-vale Rd. West Hill. He's also using a mobile home in his campaign. Advance polling in city and boroughs will be tomorrow, next Thrusday and next Saturday.
Campaigning by horse and buggy, Gordon Clarke, running for alderman in Scarborough's Ward 12, hands a pamphlet to his neighbor Aubrey Crowhurst, who owns the horse, My Lenny Boy, and the buggy, an antique built by the McLaughlin Carriage Works. Clarke lives in a century-old farmhouse off Meadow-vale Rd. West Hill. He's also using a mobile home in his campaign. Advance polling in city and boroughs will be tomorrow, next Thrusday and next Saturday.
11/21/1974
Mourning, Joanne Patterson, widow of York Policeman Constable Paul Patterson, killed in high-speed chase, clutches his cap at Oshawa funeral yesterday
Mourning, Joanne Patterson, widow of York Policeman Constable Paul Patterson, killed in high-speed chase, clutches his cap at Oshawa funeral yesterday
10/31/1978
The director of the National Museum of Poland, Dr. Stanislaw Lorentz, shows pictures of the centuries old royal palace in Warsaw to (from the left) Joanne Glista, 11, Bozena Cicha, 15, and Caroline Glista, 12. The Glistas live in Mississauga: Bozena is visiting from Poland. Lorentz will rebuild the bombed palace.
The director of the National Museum of Poland, Dr. Stanislaw Lorentz, shows pictures of the centuries old royal palace in Warsaw to (from the left) Joanne Glista, 11, Bozena Cicha, 15, and Caroline Glista, 12. The Glistas live in Mississauga: Bozena is visiting from Poland. Lorentz will rebuild the bombed palace.
7/9/1972
Michael Spivak, 12, young symphony conductor, was accidentally shot in the foot by a 13-year-old boy in Forest Hill junior high school, shown here, ye(...)
Michael Spivak, 12, young symphony conductor, was accidentally shot in the foot by a 13-year-old boy in Forest Hill junior high school, shown here, ye(...)
9/9/1948
Hunger and Terror are remembered by Musleh Haqqi, 32, and his wife, Suraiya, 22, as they sit with their children, 18-month-old daughter, Ayeshe, and 3-year-old son, Shaheer, now back at their home in Mississauga, as they tell how they were caught in war between India and Pakistan, and struggled to safety
Hunger and Terror are remembered by Musleh Haqqi, 32, and his wife, Suraiya, 22, as they sit with their children, 18-month-old daughter, Ayeshe, and 3-year-old son, Shaheer, now back at their home in Mississauga, as they tell how they were caught in war between India and Pakistan, and struggled to safety
1/10/1972
Constable Greg-Robbins of Deep River police shows Robert Eskens, 12, a message from the boy's parents in Ajax after he was rescued. Robbins, who shot (...)
Constable Greg-Robbins of Deep River police shows Robert Eskens, 12, a message from the boy's parents in Ajax after he was rescued. Robbins, who shot (...)
1/8/1974