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Royal Victoria Hospital

Picture, 1986

Royal Victoria Hospital

Picture, 1986

No vacancies: So overburdened is Barrie's Royal Victoria Hospital that patients on stretches sometimes wait in halls two to three days before a bed becomes available. The hospital is already 225 beds below the provincial average and is predicted to be short 326 beds within the next five years; according to a report. Here; a woman on the bed is comforted by friends; while (at right) Jack Phillips; 45 waits for son; Tristan; 10; to have a few stitches.

Picture, 1986

Lost in a bush for 24 hours, 8-year-old Richard Hogan of Eglinton Ave. E. tells his mother of his experiences while waiting to be taken out by helicopter. He, his father, and an uncle from Montreal became lost Sunday while hiking through a swampy area near Minesing, 10 miles north west of Barrie. Rescuers found them yesterday in a clearing. Richard was suffering a stomach ache from drinking swamp water.

Picture, 1977

Barrie: Five Point Square; downtown; The city has 70 manufacturing plants and 300 service industries. By year 2010 population should be 125;000.

Picture, 1986

This comfortable 14-room house on a quiet street in Barrie is home for 12 teenage boys who were troubled or in trouble in their home environments. The home is operated by a non-profit corporation; the John Bosco Residences for Boys.

Picture, 1974

Centennial Park, Barrie, Ontario

Picture, 1982

Joshua Shaw, 3, from Manitoulin Island

Picture, 1993

MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario

Picture, 1993

The world's greatest war

Ephemera, 1915

Fred Grant Square: Downtown park adds cooling touch of green on a warm summer day to the city of 38;000; which recently took over 8;500 acres of land from Innisfil Township. The acquisition has doubled the size of the city and will allow it to grow to perhaps 125;000 people by the year 2011.

Picture, 1982

Housemother; and usually known as Mum to the boys; is Kay Leboldus; who has three grown-up children and five grandchildren of her own. For her it's more than a job. It's like raising a second family; watching the boys change.

Picture, 1974

Members of the legislature committee on economic and cultural nationalism prepare their final report in the oval sunroom of the Ontario Government Staff Development Centre on Lake Simcoe. From left are Glen Hodgson (PC-Victoria Haliburton); Sidney Handleman (PC-Carleton); Nick Leluk (PC-Humber); Ian Deans (NDP-Wentworth) and Russell Rowe (PC-Northumberland); the chairman. They insist they can accomplish much at the sort of think-tank by lake.

Picture, 1973

Georgian College, Canadian Automotive Institute, Barrie, Ontario

Picture, 1996

Simcoe County archivist Peter Moran in Memorial Square, Barrie, Ontario

Picture, 1986

Simcoe County Court House and Jail, Barrie, Ontario

Picture, Unkn

Barrie braces for blow-out

Picture, 1964

Canada - Ontario - Barrie (Ontario Development Centre)

Picture, 1973

Two of the boys relax after school by playing billiards in one of the recreation rooms of the Barrie house. Every attempt is made to banish any suggestion of institution from the house and rules and regulations are kept to minimum.

Picture, 1974

New city hall (left) and old city hall Monument, from Collier Street. Barrie, Ontario

Picture, 1986

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Barrie: Five Point Square; downtown; The city has 70 manufacturing plants and 300 service industries. By year 2010 population should be 125;000.

This comfortable 14-room house on a quiet street in Barrie is home for 12 teenage boys who were troubled or in trouble in their home environments. The home is operated by a non-profit corporation; the John Bosco Residences for Boys.

Centennial Park, Barrie, Ontario

Joshua Shaw, 3, from Manitoulin Island

MacLaren Art Centre, Barrie, Ontario

The world's greatest war

Fred Grant Square: Downtown park adds cooling touch of green on a warm summer day to the city of 38;000; which recently took over 8;500 acres of land from Innisfil Township. The acquisition has doubled the size of the city and will allow it to grow to perhaps 125;000 people by the year 2011.

Housemother; and usually known as Mum to the boys; is Kay Leboldus; who has three grown-up children and five grandchildren of her own. For her it's more than a job. It's like raising a second family; watching the boys change.

Georgian College, Canadian Automotive Institute, Barrie, Ontario

Simcoe County archivist Peter Moran in Memorial Square, Barrie, Ontario

Simcoe County Court House and Jail, Barrie, Ontario

Barrie braces for blow-out

Canada - Ontario - Barrie (Ontario Development Centre)

Two of the boys relax after school by playing billiards in one of the recreation rooms of the Barrie house. Every attempt is made to banish any suggestion of institution from the house and rules and regulations are kept to minimum.

New city hall (left) and old city hall Monument, from Collier Street. Barrie, Ontario

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