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We're tops

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We're tops

Date9/27/1977

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McConnell, Colin (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: We're tops: Emergency patient is loaded onto a government ambulance for transport to a Toronto hospital. Reader; president of the Trauma Association of Canada; says that U of T's four major teaching hospitals - the Hospital for Sick Children; Toronto General; St. Michael's and Sunnybrook - have organized a trauma group that is among the world's best.

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Ambulance service

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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0001316F

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