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Examining regent park plan to turn paved playgrounds and several parkland, and build a community centre and swimming pool, Mrs. Betty Strand (left) an(...)
Examining regent park plan to turn paved playgrounds and several parkland, and build a community centre and swimming pool, Mrs. Betty Strand (left) an(...)

Examining regent park plan to turn paved playgrounds and several parkland, and build a community centre and swimming pool, Mrs. Betty Strand (left) an(...)

Date10/27/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: Examining regent park plan to turn paved playgrounds and several parkland; and build a community centre and swimming pool; Mrs. Betty Strand (left) and mrs. helvi Therien; both residents of Regent Park; hear details from landscape architect Walter Kehm and Budd McCormick (right); president of Regent park Community Improvement Association; at meeting of the residents.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0113709F
Feeling down: Dean Harvey, 18, left, and Anthony Williams, 19, outside the Regent Park community centre in Toronto, have no plans for their lives
Feeling down: Dean Harvey, 18, left, and Anthony Williams, 19, outside the Regent Park community centre in Toronto, have no plans for their lives
5/8/1992
Centre of controversy between the Toronto Housing Authority and the city's parks and recreation committee is this courtyard at Regent Park North, show(...)
Centre of controversy between the Toronto Housing Authority and the city's parks and recreation committee is this courtyard at Regent Park North, show(...)
4/14/1967
Regent park youth corps, a group of serious-minded young people who live in the Regent Park South Housing project, hold round table discussion on how (...)
Regent park youth corps, a group of serious-minded young people who live in the Regent Park South Housing project, hold round table discussion on how (...)
12/30/1968
New quarters for low-income families? These are the swimming-pool equipped maisonettes in Etobicoke where the province plans to relocate low-income fa(...)
New quarters for low-income families? These are the swimming-pool equipped maisonettes in Etobicoke where the province plans to relocate low-income fa(...)
7/6/1965
Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Housing - Public - Regent Park
Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Housing - Public - Regent Park
n.d.
Massive public housing projects in big cities, like Toronto's Regent Park (above) were criticized
Massive public housing projects in big cities, like Toronto's Regent Park (above) were criticized
11/20/1968
Almost 4,000 people live in the highrise apartments and row housing of Regent Park South at Dundas and Shuter Sts
Almost 4,000 people live in the highrise apartments and row housing of Regent Park South at Dundas and Shuter Sts
12/2/1968
It's no fun being stuck in a high-rise apartment in Regent Park housing development with no place to romp outside or go for a swim during a hot Toronto summer
It's no fun being stuck in a high-rise apartment in Regent Park housing development with no place to romp outside or go for a swim during a hot Toronto summer
6/2/1970
Burned wall outside an elevator in an apartment in Regent Park South was photographed by a Star team on one of its visits there to gather material for(...)
Burned wall outside an elevator in an apartment in Regent Park South was photographed by a Star team on one of its visits there to gather material for(...)
12/2/1968
Tenement jungle of Regent Park South is a world unto itself for many of the youthful inhabitants
Tenement jungle of Regent Park South is a world unto itself for many of the youthful inhabitants
11/20/1968
Sad-faced child stares out through broken window in one of 732 housing units in Toronto's run-down Regent Park South housing project
Sad-faced child stares out through broken window in one of 732 housing units in Toronto's run-down Regent Park South housing project
11/20/1968
The winner in a constant battle with the environment of Regent Park South is Bob Boucher, 19, who dropped out of high school, then returned to prepare(...)
The winner in a constant battle with the environment of Regent Park South is Bob Boucher, 19, who dropped out of high school, then returned to prepare(...)
12/7/1968