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Humber River, showing William Gamble mill, in background, Toronto, Ont.

Picture, 1889
1976 Olympics visits toronto in 1975. Montreal's Olympic Stadium isn't completed but Toronto's scale model of the building is. Victoria Schoeller points out the features of the building--via this model on the seventh floor of Eaton's College Street--to Grade 6 pupils of Palmerston Junior Public School. The real thing; now being readied for the 1976 Summer Olympics; will have seats for 70;000 people for many athletic events Mast is 525 feet high. [Incomplete]

Picture, 1975
Johnson; Tim

Picture, 1998
What a catch: Here is a ball game for the butterfingers in your family.

Picture, 1991
Peters Fur Trading Co.

Ephemera, 1910
W.A. White & Co.'s new letter A family shuttle sewing machine

Ephemera, 1870
Piramyd shape Olympic Village with MTC Skyline at Back

Picture, 1975
Reporter Lotta Dempsey had to use all the tricks in the 'trade to capture British Columbia's Premier David Barrett for an interview. But he proved to be a charming and co-operative speaker, she found. Barrett's staff insisted at first that their leader had no time to talk to newspaper people.

Picture, 1973
One-handed pitch: Flint, Mich., star high school pitcher Jim Abbott, who was born without a right hand, has been drafted by the Toronto Blue Jays. Abbott, 17, had 148 strike-outs in 73.3 innings pitched last season - an average of two an inning.

Picture, 1985
Johnson; Tim

Picture, 1997