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A silent city remembers. Honor guard at old city hall stands with bowed head today as the chimes tolled at 11 a.m. to mark the 50th anniversary of the(...)
A silent city remembers. Honor guard at old city hall stands with bowed head today as the chimes tolled at 11 a.m. to mark the 50th anniversary of the(...)

A silent city remembers. Honor guard at old city hall stands with bowed head today as the chimes tolled at 11 a.m. to mark the 50th anniversary of the(...)

Date11/11/1968
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Original Toronto Star caption: A silent city remembers. Honor guard at old city hall stands with bowed head today as the chimes tolled at 11 a.m. to mark the 50th anniversary of the World War I armistice. For the way World War I veterans recall their war experiences.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0001567F
Head bowed over his reversed weapon, a seaman from HMCS York stands guard over the wreaths piled before Toronto's Cenotaph in front of the old city ha(...)
Head bowed over his reversed weapon, a seaman from HMCS York stands guard over the wreaths piled before Toronto's Cenotaph in front of the old city ha(...)
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'. . . As we who are left grow old'. With head bowed over his reversed rifle, Paul Boulding, 16, Royal Canadian Sea Cadets, stands guard at Cenotaph i(...)
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An old warrior remembers. An old campaigner, one leg off at the hip, sits in silent tribute to fallen comrades as two sailors keep watch during the an(...)
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A man in uniform stands, with bowed head, in front of the cenotaph at Old City hall, which read ...
Brief silence: At 11 a.m. yesterday veterans and soldiers at the old city hall cenotaph observed a minute's silence to recall the fighters who died in the two world wars and the Korean conflict
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A member of the Color Guard of the Earlscourt branch of the Royal Canadian Legion stands with reversed arms during the sunrise service at Prospect Cemetery today
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A new generation remembers, World War II vet Merril Brooks of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 582 in Cooksville, admires the poppy worn by Brett Mars(...)
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Boer war veteran remembers comrades
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Proudly marching across the square at City Hall today after laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in honor of their fallen comrades are Dieppe prisoners of (...)
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War blinded honor comrades, Blind veterans Charles Hornsby (left) and Ivan White of Victoria march yesterday to the Cenotaph at the old city hall, esc(...)
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