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Congratulations offered: Use of models in wheelchairs, in recent advertising supplement in The Star, showed disabled people in an entirely normal setting
Congratulations offered: Use of models in wheelchairs, in recent advertising supplement in The Star, showed disabled people in an entirely normal setting

Congratulations offered: Use of models in wheelchairs, in recent advertising supplement in The Star, showed disabled people in an entirely normal setting

Date3/31/1981
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0132473F
New house: John Israel, left, and his wife Pat both use wheelchairs, so they built a house from scratch with everything, including kitchen counters and sinks, at a 4 1/2-foot level
New house: John Israel, left, and his wife Pat both use wheelchairs, so they built a house from scratch with everything, including kitchen counters and sinks, at a 4 1/2-foot level
10/10/1989
Serving his sentence, 17-year-old Mark Foley loads wheelchairs into a Red Cross vehicle to be delivered to disabled people in Scarborough. With him is(...)
Serving his sentence, 17-year-old Mark Foley loads wheelchairs into a Red Cross vehicle to be delivered to disabled people in Scarborough. With him is(...)
7/6/1978
Surplus aid: Bill Magill sits in one of the wheelchairs collected for the Caribbean
Surplus aid: Bill Magill sits in one of the wheelchairs collected for the Caribbean
11/20/1987
Congratulations: Doug and Dorian Cole hoist a glass to their club, George's Spaghetti Rouse at Dundas at Sherbourne Sts., which is celebrating 25th anniversary. Party was held last night.
Congratulations: Doug and Dorian Cole hoist a glass to their club, George's Spaghetti Rouse at Dundas at Sherbourne Sts., which is celebrating 25th anniversary. Party was held last night.
11/2/1981
Ken Carmen, assistant advertising manager of Vic Tanny's, models a 2-button doubleknot suit for spring.
Ken Carmen, assistant advertising manager of Vic Tanny's, models a 2-button doubleknot suit for spring.
3/28/1972
Controller Joyce Trimmer Scarborough Alderman Carol Ruddell went council meeting yesterday in wheelchairs to emphasize difficulties facing disabled pe(...)
Controller Joyce Trimmer Scarborough Alderman Carol Ruddell went council meeting yesterday in wheelchairs to emphasize difficulties facing disabled pe(...)
10/5/1976
Robert Stephenson: If the Star exprosure is instrumental in saving others form such a brutal nd mindless death, then Robert's death may not have been entirely in vain, says father of man slain in Hawaii
Robert Stephenson: If the Star exprosure is instrumental in saving others form such a brutal nd mindless death, then Robert's death may not have been entirely in vain, says father of man slain in Hawaii
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Star reporter Damien Cox faces the frustration and pain that thousands of disabled people confined to a wheelchair must confront each day
Star reporter Damien Cox faces the frustration and pain that thousands of disabled people confined to a wheelchair must confront each day
7/22/1986
Wrye was reacting to a recent Star story that revealed how at least a dozen people together lost more than $1 million on franchises from a Toronto company called Holey Donuts run by David Platt
Wrye was reacting to a recent Star story that revealed how at least a dozen people together lost more than $1 million on franchises from a Toronto company called Holey Donuts run by David Platt
3/30/1989
Congratulations, Leon! Leon Weinstein, president of Loblaw Groceterias, is congratulated enthusiastically by Joan Crawford, once a top movie star and (...)
Congratulations, Leon! Leon Weinstein, president of Loblaw Groceterias, is congratulated enthusiastically by Joan Crawford, once a top movie star and (...)
2/24/1969
Seeking wider horizons: Sam Savona, who has cerebral palsy, lives around the corner from a subway station, but has never been able to ride the train because he uses a wheelchair
Seeking wider horizons: Sam Savona, who has cerebral palsy, lives around the corner from a subway station, but has never been able to ride the train because he uses a wheelchair
5/25/1989
New hope: Dirk DePass, confined to a wheelchair by cerebral palsy, uses pencil to operate computer.
New hope: Dirk DePass, confined to a wheelchair by cerebral palsy, uses pencil to operate computer.
11/19/1981