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Wright was owner of one of the Dominion's finest racehorse breeding farms and is seen here at Barrie home with some of his horses. A prominent Canadia(...)
Wright was owner of one of the Dominion's finest racehorse breeding farms and is seen here at Barrie home with some of his horses. A prominent Canadia(...)

Wright was owner of one of the Dominion's finest racehorse breeding farms and is seen here at Barrie home with some of his horses. A prominent Canadia(...)

Date10/15/1936
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Original Toronto Star caption: Wright was owner of one of the Dominion's finest racehorse breeding farms and is seen here at Barrie home with some of his horses. A prominent Canadian mining industrialist, he was once a butcher's apprentice in Sleaford, Eng., where he was born
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0090201F
The Queen accepts Jerry, one of the five finest horses in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Stables, a great-grandson of the famous racehorse Man O' W(...)
The Queen accepts Jerry, one of the five finest horses in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police Stables, a great-grandson of the famous racehorse Man O' W(...)
8/2/1973
Leggy foal. Windfields Farms general manager Bernard McCormick is flanked by Northern Sea and her 2-day-old foal Bay Filly. the Oshawa racehorse farm (...)
Leggy foal. Windfields Farms general manager Bernard McCormick is flanked by Northern Sea and her 2-day-old foal Bay Filly. the Oshawa racehorse farm (...)
3/6/1987
Horses Are Tethered, to the cemetery fence near the Mennonite hall in Elmira, in the area where many Old Order Amish have farms. The Amish don't use c(...)
Horses Are Tethered, to the cemetery fence near the Mennonite hall in Elmira, in the area where many Old Order Amish have farms. The Amish don't use c(...)
11/20/1973
And the winner is: Regal intention wasn't the Sam-Son Farm's horse that was supposed to win the Queen's Plate, but he left his favored stablemate Regal Classic (second) eating his dust at the finish
And the winner is: Regal intention wasn't the Sam-Son Farm's horse that was supposed to win the Queen's Plate, but he left his favored stablemate Regal Classic (second) eating his dust at the finish
7/11/1988
Inspecting ruins of honeymoon cottage from which he pulled his friend, Jack Kettlewell, before it burned, Ronald Barrie, right is seen with Insp. Thomas Wright
Inspecting ruins of honeymoon cottage from which he pulled his friend, Jack Kettlewell, before it burned, Ronald Barrie, right is seen with Insp. Thomas Wright
5/23/1947
Happy time, Metro lawyer Rudy Bratty shares a joke with the celebrated singer after dinner at the home of Steve and Sally Stavro, owners of the Knob Hill Farms supermarket chain
Happy time, Metro lawyer Rudy Bratty shares a joke with the celebrated singer after dinner at the home of Steve and Sally Stavro, owners of the Knob Hill Farms supermarket chain
3/17/1985
Welcome Home. Armbro Flight is happy, and so is co-owner Elgin Armstrong of Brampton, as famed and wealthy mare returned to Brampton's ABC Farms. Inju(...)
Welcome Home. Armbro Flight is happy, and so is co-owner Elgin Armstrong of Brampton, as famed and wealthy mare returned to Brampton's ABC Farms. Inju(...)
6/9/1967
Prize-winning poet, 12-year-old Sarah Eastwood, of Waterdown, puts her arms fondly around a colt during a one-day trip to world's largest breeding farm for standardbreds, in Hanover, Penn
Prize-winning poet, 12-year-old Sarah Eastwood, of Waterdown, puts her arms fondly around a colt during a one-day trip to world's largest breeding farm for standardbreds, in Hanover, Penn
4/8/1970
Hans Bauer relaxes with one of his five horses at his home near Guelph
Hans Bauer relaxes with one of his five horses at his home near Guelph
10/21/1976
Proud lumberjack: Billy Dunlop, 5, found just the Christmas tree for his family at the Bose Tress Farm, one of several serve-yourself farms in the Metro area
Proud lumberjack: Billy Dunlop, 5, found just the Christmas tree for his family at the Bose Tress Farm, one of several serve-yourself farms in the Metro area
12/7/1982
Group home: Pony Tail Farms is the group home where Stuart Taylor and his wife Joyce cared for 184 children, most of them disturbed teenagers, over 15 years
Group home: Pony Tail Farms is the group home where Stuart Taylor and his wife Joyce cared for 184 children, most of them disturbed teenagers, over 15 years
4/11/1987
Grandchildren join the former chief justice on the golf cart he uses to get around his farm, where he raises horses, spotted deer and Barbary sheep. F(...)
Grandchildren join the former chief justice on the golf cart he uses to get around his farm, where he raises horses, spotted deer and Barbary sheep. F(...)
7/1/1990