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At Chinatown street pageant
At Chinatown street pageant

At Chinatown street pageant

Date7/26/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: At Chinatown street pageant: part of a fund drive to raise $200:000 toward building a home for aged in the Chinese community: Yee Hope and his daughter Madeline: 8: dance on Elizabeth St.: which had been closed to traffic.
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Country:Canada
City, town or township:Toronto
Province or state:Ontario
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0055528F
At Chinatown street pageant yesterday
At Chinatown street pageant yesterday
7/26/1970
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11/2/1981
A Dragon Dance in Nathan Phillips Square. Many people look on.
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6/13/1974
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Busy street: Chinatown, above, was pinpointed in a recent investigation of a rash of pickpocketing that tipped police to the smuggling of illegal immigrants
9/5/1986
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Passing the time: In the crowded, bustling streets of Chinatown, there's still time out for a quiet chat between storekeeper and passerby
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9/3/1981
Down yonge street parade members of the California-Nevada Lions in a pageant which drew a crowd estimated by police as close to 250,000 along its two-(...)
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Booming Chinatown: Developer Tim Man (above) points to a model of Chinatown Centre, to be built by 1987.
Booming Chinatown: Developer Tim Man (above) points to a model of Chinatown Centre, to be built by 1987.
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Bank opens in Chinatown, The ceremonial dance of the dragon is performed in Chinatown yesterday to mark the opening of a branch of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce on Dundas St
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A young smiling Asian woman wearing a tiara holds a bouquet of flowers and a trophy.
Miss Chinatown, Hilda Jay, a 19-year-old University of Toronto nursing student, is Miss Toronto Chinatown
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