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Happy Birthday, Canada: Metro's Centennial Baby has grown up. Born one second after midnight on July 1, 1967, Jason Ringas is 15 today.
Happy Birthday, Canada: Metro's Centennial Baby has grown up. Born one second after midnight on July 1, 1967, Jason Ringas is 15 today.

Happy Birthday, Canada: Metro's Centennial Baby has grown up. Born one second after midnight on July 1, 1967, Jason Ringas is 15 today.

Date6/29/1982
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0132788F
He's No. 1. The first rhino born in Canada at the Metro zoo - has certainly grown. Shaboola, with mom, Isibamu now tips the scales at 600 pounds, up f(...)
He's No. 1. The first rhino born in Canada at the Metro zoo - has certainly grown. Shaboola, with mom, Isibamu now tips the scales at 600 pounds, up f(...)
5/7/1980
First centennial baby born in Scarborough, Carol Jane Tidd celebrates her first birthday Monday-with only 20 more years to go before she gets the bene(...)
First centennial baby born in Scarborough, Carol Jane Tidd celebrates her first birthday Monday-with only 20 more years to go before she gets the bene(...)
6/14/1968
New home for Hedgehog: Kim Dormaar, assistant director of new Metro zoo, holds a hedgehog from Asia, one of 5,000 animals, birds, reptiles and fish which will live in the 700-acre zoo. In order to raise funds for the new zoo, Metro's six mayors and thousands of zoo supporters are today walking 15 miles in hopes of raising $500,000 towards $6 million zoo fund objective. The zoo, being built in northeastern corner of Scarborough, will open next summer.
New home for Hedgehog: Kim Dormaar, assistant director of new Metro zoo, holds a hedgehog from Asia, one of 5,000 animals, birds, reptiles and fish which will live in the 700-acre zoo. In order to raise funds for the new zoo, Metro's six mayors and thousands of zoo supporters are today walking 15 miles in hopes of raising $500,000 towards $6 million zoo fund objective. The zoo, being built in northeastern corner of Scarborough, will open next summer.
5/31/1973
The Sikh community in Metro has grown from a handful to an estimated 20,000 in the last 15 years
The Sikh community in Metro has grown from a handful to an estimated 20,000 in the last 15 years
4/26/1976
Cathy and Anthony Minchella and daughter 1 second after midnight
Cathy and Anthony Minchella and daughter 1 second after midnight
1/1/1997
Metro's first Christmas baby. A first-born son was a welcome Christmas gift for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Farace of Hexham Dr., Scarborough. James Anthony Far(...)
Metro's first Christmas baby. A first-born son was a welcome Christmas gift for Mr. and Mrs. Paul Farace of Hexham Dr., Scarborough. James Anthony Far(...)
12/25/1973
Midnight thugs can't get up this sleeve, One of the best answers to the crime wave which has netted large hauls in house break-ins recently is this ni(...)
Midnight thugs can't get up this sleeve, One of the best answers to the crime wave which has netted large hauls in house break-ins recently is this ni(...)
10/25/1945
Second career: Nathan Gold found he couldn't stand retirement back in 1967, so he bought into the Town and Country women's wear chain and has built it into a 200-store empire
Second career: Nathan Gold found he couldn't stand retirement back in 1967, so he bought into the Town and Country women's wear chain and has built it into a 200-store empire
9/25/1981
Second career: Nathan Gold found he couldn't stand retirement back in 1967, so he bought into the Town and Country women's wear chain and has built it into a 200-store empire
Second career: Nathan Gold found he couldn't stand retirement back in 1967, so he bought into the Town and Country women's wear chain and has built it into a 200-store empire
9/25/1981
Full-grown. The second tower of the downtown Eaton Centre complex, the Cadillac Fairview Tower, has gone as far as it's going, having reached its full(...)
Full-grown. The second tower of the downtown Eaton Centre complex, the Cadillac Fairview Tower, has gone as far as it's going, having reached its full(...)
2/21/1981
Winning writers: Jason Pothlers, 18, above, is a second-prize winner in the Metro Toronto Housing Authority antidrug essay contest
Winning writers: Jason Pothlers, 18, above, is a second-prize winner in the Metro Toronto Housing Authority antidrug essay contest
4/23/1992
Business booming: Allan Cohen of Grant's Jewellers on Church St. with some of the items that he has bought recently. One man brought in an exquisite emerald he'd paid $34,000 (U.S.) for 2 1/2 years ago. Cohen bought it - for a third of that. I'm looking for a 10 to 15 per cent profit on the stone, Cohen says.
Business booming: Allan Cohen of Grant's Jewellers on Church St. with some of the items that he has bought recently. One man brought in an exquisite emerald he'd paid $34,000 (U.S.) for 2 1/2 years ago. Cohen bought it - for a third of that. I'm looking for a 10 to 15 per cent profit on the stone, Cohen says.
9/16/1982