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Remembers when: Clark Secor, 93, a 1904 grad of Number 6 School, holds a brick from the old building
Remembers when: Clark Secor, 93, a 1904 grad of Number 6 School, holds a brick from the old building

Remembers when: Clark Secor, 93, a 1904 grad of Number 6 School, holds a brick from the old building

Date5/21/1983
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0133503F
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How did it all begin? Australian psychiatrist Graham Farrant says he remembers his own life as an egg waiting to be fertilized.
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Fond memories: Isabella Linton, 88, who watched the first Santa parade in 1905, and Dr. John Maxwell, 79, who took part in it while he was a high school and university student in the 1920s. remember the early parades as the extravaganzas of the day. Linton also got her own children up at 6 a.m. to get downtown from Weston for the annual event.
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Here Dorothy Norwood holds the stop watch on Miss Secor in one of the tests designed to speed up selection of suitable workers
Here Dorothy Norwood holds the stop watch on Miss Secor in one of the tests designed to speed up selection of suitable workers
7/9/1942
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.
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The numbers man: Jim Otterman, Ontario's assistant auditor, holds a copy of yesterday's report on provincial spending
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12/1/1992
Voice stilled: Paul Fraschetti, 17-year-old editor, holds the issue of school paper which was cancelled because principal ruled some articles were contrary to views of the Catholic Church
Voice stilled: Paul Fraschetti, 17-year-old editor, holds the issue of school paper which was cancelled because principal ruled some articles were contrary to views of the Catholic Church
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Khan: A man who remembers the old players and the long train rides and longs for the days when baseball was more romance than business
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Solid handlwork: Art Cooke spent the summer of '45 chiseling mortar off old bricks to build the home he and his wife still live in on Burnett Ave. Today, a high-rise looms near the site he bought for $350. Above, Cooke admires the sturdy bricks he bought for $352 and hauled in a rented truck from the Swift meatpacking plant.
Solid handlwork: Art Cooke spent the summer of '45 chiseling mortar off old bricks to build the home he and his wife still live in on Burnett Ave. Today, a high-rise looms near the site he bought for $350. Above, Cooke admires the sturdy bricks he bought for $352 and hauled in a rented truck from the Swift meatpacking plant.
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