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Solid sense. That's what rings through as Ontario's John Robarts, looking like a trust company president, delivers badly a well-written speech, but gi(...)
Solid sense. That's what rings through as Ontario's John Robarts, looking like a trust company president, delivers badly a well-written speech, but gi(...)

Solid sense. That's what rings through as Ontario's John Robarts, looking like a trust company president, delivers badly a well-written speech, but gi(...)

Date11/27/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Solid sense. That's what rings through as Ontario's John Robarts; looking like a trust company president; delivers badly a well-written speech; but gives Canada's other premiers plenty to think about at the Confederation of Tomorrow Conference in an Orwellian eyrie.
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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_0004930F
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Toronto
Province or state:Ontario
A view like no other of the Toronto skyline is what the CN Tower promises - and that's what it delivers
A view like no other of the Toronto skyline is what the CN Tower promises - and that's what it delivers
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Lesage and Robarts: Two premiers, Ontario's John Robarts, right, and Quebec's Jean Lesage, get together at a University of Toronto ceremony in 1962
Lesage and Robarts: Two premiers, Ontario's John Robarts, right, and Quebec's Jean Lesage, get together at a University of Toronto ceremony in 1962
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Ontario's New Chief Justices, Premier John Robarts (left) congratulates two new chief justices of Ontario, Chief Justice George Gale, 61, chief justic(...)
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Giving Ontario's views, Premier John Robarts addresses the federal-provincial constitutional coference today
Giving Ontario's views, Premier John Robarts addresses the federal-provincial constitutional coference today
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A moment of Hilarity is shared by Ontario's Premier John Robarts, Mrs
A moment of Hilarity is shared by Ontario's Premier John Robarts, Mrs
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