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Determined to Stay: Lawyer Irvine P. Dickier, 87, was too busy making phone calls in his 16th-floor office to leave because of a fire nine floors below, to the frustration of Toronto Firefighter Rich Gunns.
Determined to Stay: Lawyer Irvine P. Dickier, 87, was too busy making phone calls in his 16th-floor office to leave because of a fire nine floors below, to the frustration of Toronto Firefighter Rich Gunns.

Determined to Stay: Lawyer Irvine P. Dickier, 87, was too busy making phone calls in his 16th-floor office to leave because of a fire nine floors below, to the frustration of Toronto Firefighter Rich Gunns.

Date12/19/1991
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0126678F
Gunns Limited, pork & beef packers
Gunns Limited, pork & beef packers
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Generations will mix as famlies with young childrn find emergency shelter in top floors of former soldiers' club where veterans still live in first tw(...)
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