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No access: Scenes like this have occurred less frequently since the Ontario Building Code introduced strict regulations about making public buildings accessible for the handicapped
No access: Scenes like this have occurred less frequently since the Ontario Building Code introduced strict regulations about making public buildings accessible for the handicapped

No access: Scenes like this have occurred less frequently since the Ontario Building Code introduced strict regulations about making public buildings accessible for the handicapped

Date6/25/1984
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Original Toronto Star caption: No access: Scenes like this have occurred less frequently since the Ontario Building Code introduced strict regulations about making public buildings accessible for the handicapped.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0022790F
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Handicapped kids get new van. Gabor Takacs, 4, is standing beside Silver Creek Nursery School's new van, which was donated by the Humber Valley Kiwani(...)
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Gaining access, Franco Olivieri of The Olive Tree and Alisa Posesorski help her husband Mel
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Lewis Boles, 38, a quadriplegic who, since 1971, has lived at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, works part time on an IBM PC-XT computer specially adapted with a voice recognition system
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The Chief at the controls, Timmy-12-year-old Steven Fitzpatrick, and Whipper Billy Watson wheel into a dinner dance for the Ontario Society for Crippl(...)
The Chief at the controls, Timmy-12-year-old Steven Fitzpatrick, and Whipper Billy Watson wheel into a dinner dance for the Ontario Society for Crippl(...)
9/15/1977
Let's hear those pledges! Frank Knight, Scarborough's official town crier, gets the Variety Club of Ontario's sixth annual telethon off to a ringing s(...)
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No hiding place: This scene is acted out by models, but to many physically and mentally disabled, it is an everyday fear that society must address
No hiding place: This scene is acted out by models, but to many physically and mentally disabled, it is an everyday fear that society must address
6/11/1990
Ready to roll
Ready to roll
9/4/1985
Image shows a 10-year-old Andrea Essig gets special coaching from Andra Kelly at the Victoria V ...
Careful coaching: 10-year-old Andrea Essig gets special coaching from Andra Kelly at the Victoria Village Arena. Andrea was one of 30 blind children on hand at the arena yesterday learning how to skate.
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Image shows the blind skaters program run by North York's parks and recreation department. Here ...
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