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Ready for takeoff

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Ready for takeoff

Date8/13/1986

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Stuparyk, Michael (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Ready for takeoff: Brenda Speirs; left; gets her balloon inflated with the help of passenger Laura-Lynn Reid; 18. The trip aloft was Reid's birthday present. Speirs was the first Canadian woman to fly over the Swiss Alps in a balloon.

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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_0003380F

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