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Past Master: Amateur historian Danny Dickhoff, 12, left, plays street shinny with his brother Leon, 10, right, and pal Brent McGill, 11.
Past Master: Amateur historian Danny Dickhoff, 12, left, plays street shinny with his brother Leon, 10, right, and pal Brent McGill, 11.

Past Master: Amateur historian Danny Dickhoff, 12, left, plays street shinny with his brother Leon, 10, right, and pal Brent McGill, 11.

Date2/16/1995
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0126679F
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Risked lives: Andy Patterson, 32, flanked by Dean Ribble (left), 12, and his brother, George, 10, dragged Patterson's 12-year-old son, Billy, screaming from a Mississauga building after 8,000 volts shot through the boy's body when he caught a foot in a transformer room
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1/15/1991
No Christmas: Atiya Burney, 11, left, her father Ali, mother Sabiha and brother llyas, 12, feel free to be different.
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12/7/1987
Barbaric sport? Government spending on amateur sport should be supplying rinks for shinny hockey, reader says, rather than supporting the barbaric and(...)
Barbaric sport? Government spending on amateur sport should be supplying rinks for shinny hockey, reader says, rather than supporting the barbaric and(...)
1/16/1981
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Family blend: Leon Bacardi, left, as the master blender, is one of only 20 people or so around the world who know the exact recipe used for Bacardi rum.
8/25/1987
Backyard Shinny: Eric Lindros, 15, pulls away from brother Brett, 13, during backyard shinny game
Backyard Shinny: Eric Lindros, 15, pulls away from brother Brett, 13, during backyard shinny game
1/16/1989
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Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
12/5/1973
Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
12/5/1973
Some toy: Don Smith of North York loves to play amateur soldier, but his toys are something else
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Emmauel Bourdos, whose take-home pay as a hospital orderly is about $110 a week, helps the two eldest of his six children with their homework as the family gathers around the table. From the left are Bourdos, Photini, 11, Margaret, 10, Mrs. Bourdos holding Dino, 2, Tina, 5, and Bessie, S. Bourdos is one of 6,000 Metro hospital workers who are preparing to risk the consequences of an illegal strike to get a decent wage comparable to that in similar work.
1/3/1974