Just a farmer at heart, Metro chairman Ab Campbell parks a boot on a cedar fence rail and surveys his 19-acre spread in Scarborough. Campbell returns (...)

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Just a farmer at heart, Metro chairman Ab Campbell parks a boot on a cedar fence rail and surveys his 19-acre spread in Scarborough. Campbell returns (...)

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Bezant, Graham (photographer)

Campbell, Albert McTaggart (Ab), 1910-1973 (subject)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Just a farmer at heart, Metro chairman Ab Campbell parks a boot on a cedar fence rail and surveys his 19-acre spread in Scarborough. Campbell returns to the farm every night to recuperate from the pressures of his $35,000-a-year job as mayor of Metro. Land appraisers estimate that Campbell's farm, where he grows wheat, would bring at least $1,000,000 from developers.

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