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Controller Joyce Trimmer Scarborough Alderman Carol Ruddell went council meeting yesterday in wheelchairs to emphasize difficulties facing disabled pe(...)
Controller Joyce Trimmer Scarborough Alderman Carol Ruddell went council meeting yesterday in wheelchairs to emphasize difficulties facing disabled pe(...)

Controller Joyce Trimmer Scarborough Alderman Carol Ruddell went council meeting yesterday in wheelchairs to emphasize difficulties facing disabled pe(...)

Date10/5/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: Controller Joyce Trimmer Scarborough Alderman Carol Ruddell went council meeting yesterday in wheelchairs to emphasize difficulties facing disabled people. They were among seven Metro councillors who spent day in wheelchairs to help cuase of Coalition for Useful Transportation. It wasn't easy for any of them. Mrs. Ruddell complained of sore arms by mid-day. Coalition represents groups of handicapped people in Metro. [Incomplete]
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0077946F
Mayor helps the disabled. Mayor James Potticary of Oshawa yesterday spent working day in a wheelchair to help emphasize problems facing physically dis(...)
Mayor helps the disabled. Mayor James Potticary of Oshawa yesterday spent working day in a wheelchair to help emphasize problems facing physically dis(...)
2/26/1976
Serving his sentence, 17-year-old Mark Foley loads wheelchairs into a Red Cross vehicle to be delivered to disabled people in Scarborough. With him is(...)
Serving his sentence, 17-year-old Mark Foley loads wheelchairs into a Red Cross vehicle to be delivered to disabled people in Scarborough. With him is(...)
7/6/1978
Action Awareness, an advocate's group for handicapped, will demonstrate some difficulties in wheelchair existance
Action Awareness, an advocate's group for handicapped, will demonstrate some difficulties in wheelchair existance
12/2/1982
Riding high. Scarborough Controller Joyce Trimmer, in period costume, mounts a penny farthing bicycle. She will take part in the Ladies Great Ride for Cancer in Scarborough on April 27
Riding high. Scarborough Controller Joyce Trimmer, in period costume, mounts a penny farthing bicycle. She will take part in the Ladies Great Ride for Cancer in Scarborough on April 27
4/11/1980
Ab campbell opens his library. Scarborough Alderman Carol Ruddell sits on floor with daughter, Amy, 3, as Metro Chairman Ab Campbell shows her a book (...)
Ab campbell opens his library. Scarborough Alderman Carol Ruddell sits on floor with daughter, Amy, 3, as Metro Chairman Ab Campbell shows her a book (...)
9/29/1971
Scarborough Alderman Carol Ruddell, expecting her first child shortly, knits in expectation of the big day while her husband, Ted, looks on. In her te(...)
Scarborough Alderman Carol Ruddell, expecting her first child shortly, knits in expectation of the big day while her husband, Ted, looks on. In her te(...)
8/20/1968
Mrs. Carol Ruddell made Scarborough history when she became the first alderman to give birth while in office. She entered politics because she felt th(...)
Mrs. Carol Ruddell made Scarborough history when she became the first alderman to give birth while in office. She entered politics because she felt th(...)
8/1/1963
Ward 2 Alderman Carol Ruddell says the stripes and wall hangings of a $5,575 redecoration vastly improve corridors in the basement of Scarborough Civi(...)
Ward 2 Alderman Carol Ruddell says the stripes and wall hangings of a $5,575 redecoration vastly improve corridors in the basement of Scarborough Civi(...)
1/15/1976
Congratulations offered: Use of models in wheelchairs, in recent advertising supplement in The Star, showed disabled people in an entirely normal setting
Congratulations offered: Use of models in wheelchairs, in recent advertising supplement in The Star, showed disabled people in an entirely normal setting
3/31/1981
Waiting game: A security guard watches at a Metro committee meeting yesterday as protesters - many in wheelchairs - fight planned funding cuts
Waiting game: A security guard watches at a Metro committee meeting yesterday as protesters - many in wheelchairs - fight planned funding cuts
1/7/1992
Solemn moment, Pope John Paul II prays yesterday at Our Lady of Assumption Cathedral in Moncton, where he praised Acadians for preserving their Catholic faith in the face of many difficulties
Solemn moment, Pope John Paul II prays yesterday at Our Lady of Assumption Cathedral in Moncton, where he praised Acadians for preserving their Catholic faith in the face of many difficulties
9/13/1984
A spray, but not for a fire. It takes more than a spray of goldenrod to put out a fire but Controller Joyce Trimmer gets a kick out of the presentatio(...)
A spray, but not for a fire. It takes more than a spray of goldenrod to put out a fire but Controller Joyce Trimmer gets a kick out of the presentatio(...)
9/19/1977