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Wrecked business: They just put the torch to it and cut it into pieces, says Ted Turner, as he examines the remains of his $100,000 truck and equipment used in his sandblasting and cleaning business
Wrecked business: They just put the torch to it and cut it into pieces, says Ted Turner, as he examines the remains of his $100,000 truck and equipment used in his sandblasting and cleaning business

Wrecked business: They just put the torch to it and cut it into pieces, says Ted Turner, as he examines the remains of his $100,000 truck and equipment used in his sandblasting and cleaning business

Date4/22/1983
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0135072F
Wreck hunter: Robert Ballard, who found the Titanic's remains, will have 250,000 students watching when he examines Lake Ontario shipwrecks
Wreck hunter: Robert Ballard, who found the Titanic's remains, will have 250,000 students watching when he examines Lake Ontario shipwrecks
4/2/1990
It cost him $900 to put together his 400-pound musical toy from brass plumbing pipe and other bits and pieces, says jeweller Stan Griffith of North York but a Louisiana circus has offered him $10,000 for his homemade calliope
It cost him $900 to put together his 400-pound musical toy from brass plumbing pipe and other bits and pieces, says jeweller Stan Griffith of North York but a Louisiana circus has offered him $10,000 for his homemade calliope
9/10/1978
Picking up the pieces: Don Baggett loads his truck with the belongings he and his wife Rosemary were able to salvage after their roof was blown off
Picking up the pieces: Don Baggett loads his truck with the belongings he and his wife Rosemary were able to salvage after their roof was blown off
8/24/1992
North York Mayor James Service examines a building site in his borough, which he says is the fastest-growing community in North America and has a bigger tourist attraction than Niagara Falls
North York Mayor James Service examines a building site in his borough, which he says is the fastest-growing community in North America and has a bigger tourist attraction than Niagara Falls
6/30/1969
A $1.7 million building to house the York Region Board of Education and the Aurora municipal offices is going to be built, George Ford, superintendent of business for the board, examines a model of it. It will be built on Wellington St. just west of Yonge
A $1.7 million building to house the York Region Board of Education and the Aurora municipal offices is going to be built, George Ford, superintendent of business for the board, examines a model of it. It will be built on Wellington St. just west of Yonge
6/25/1974
Scotty Dunbar, a guard at Canadian Tire's Brampton warehouse, says the company's profit-sharing plan has given him incomparable security for his old age. Dunbar, 49, has used his equity in Canadian Tire shares to pay off his mortgage and start a business that later failed. He still has more than $120,000 left. He hopes to retire in few years.
Scotty Dunbar, a guard at Canadian Tire's Brampton warehouse, says the company's profit-sharing plan has given him incomparable security for his old age. Dunbar, 49, has used his equity in Canadian Tire shares to pay off his mortgage and start a business that later failed. He still has more than $120,000 left. He hopes to retire in few years.
6/18/1975
Harry Dunstan: Idea Corp. is negotiating to buy a piece of his company, RMS industrial Controls Inc., after he invented a cellular radio which can be used to operate huge pieces of machinery.
Harry Dunstan: Idea Corp. is negotiating to buy a piece of his company, RMS industrial Controls Inc., after he invented a cellular radio which can be used to operate huge pieces of machinery.
12/2/1983
Winter's on the way. A long line of salt trucks is among the 16,000 pieces of winter street equipment that will be neede all to soon. Over the summer (...)
Winter's on the way. A long line of salt trucks is among the 16,000 pieces of winter street equipment that will be neede all to soon. Over the summer (...)
8/19/1974
Elton John remains a superb keyboard stylist and his voice has survived the ravages of time, says reviewer Peter Howell
Elton John remains a superb keyboard stylist and his voice has survived the ravages of time, says reviewer Peter Howell
8/19/1992
S/Sgt. Mat MacPherson of the Burlington police department examines the gun a man used to commit suicide, one of the more than 50 weapons in his collec(...)
S/Sgt. Mat MacPherson of the Burlington police department examines the gun a man used to commit suicide, one of the more than 50 weapons in his collec(...)
1/11/1972
The logographic-emblematical French spelling-book, or, French pronunciation made easy : being a method by which any child, four or five years old, and of ever so slow an apprehension, although perfectly unacquainted with his letters, will, in a few months, be enabled to read French fluently, and will pronounce its as if he were a Parisian born : to which are added, besides instructions to enable any person to put this method in practice, a systematical appendix, justifying its principles, as likewise various reading-pieces, of the composition of the author, highly interesting, at least for their novelty
The logographic-emblematical French spelling-book, or, French pronunciation made easy : being a method by which any child, four or five years old, and of ever so slow an apprehension, although perfectly unacquainted with his letters, will, in a few months, be enabled to read French fluently, and will pronounce its as if he were a Parisian born : to which are added, besides instructions to enable any person to put this method in practice, a systematical appendix, justifying its principles, as likewise various reading-pieces, of the composition of the author, highly interesting, at least for their novelty
1814
Horst Kiaus: He says he has put too much time and money into his electronic instruments business to walk, but success means sacrifices
Horst Kiaus: He says he has put too much time and money into his electronic instruments business to walk, but success means sacrifices
12/7/1981