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Happiness in the country: Shirley and George Duern beat the stress of city life by retreating to the bridge cottage to live. They sold their Scarborough house and used profits to pay off the cottage.
Happiness in the country: Shirley and George Duern beat the stress of city life by retreating to the bridge cottage to live. They sold their Scarborough house and used profits to pay off the cottage.

Happiness in the country: Shirley and George Duern beat the stress of city life by retreating to the bridge cottage to live. They sold their Scarborough house and used profits to pay off the cottage.

Date10/15/1981
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0126853F
Sharing the profits, Employees of Beckett Packaging, a small Scarborough firm, are now members of a profit-sharing plan instituted last night by firm's president, Don Beckett.
Sharing the profits, Employees of Beckett Packaging, a small Scarborough firm, are now members of a profit-sharing plan instituted last night by firm's president, Don Beckett.
12/9/1975
Scotty Dunbar, a guard at Canadian Tire's Brampton warehouse, says the company's profit-sharing plan has given him incomparable security for his old age. Dunbar, 49, has used his equity in Canadian Tire shares to pay off his mortgage and start a business that later failed. He still has more than $120,000 left. He hopes to retire in few years.
Scotty Dunbar, a guard at Canadian Tire's Brampton warehouse, says the company's profit-sharing plan has given him incomparable security for his old age. Dunbar, 49, has used his equity in Canadian Tire shares to pay off his mortgage and start a business that later failed. He still has more than $120,000 left. He hopes to retire in few years.
6/18/1975
Change of life: On their 25th wedding anniversary Ricky and Gordon Bowker packed up home and career in the city and moved to a lakeside cottage in the Kawarthas.
Change of life: On their 25th wedding anniversary Ricky and Gordon Bowker packed up home and career in the city and moved to a lakeside cottage in the Kawarthas.
1/23/1980
Mike Byrd, 34, is deputy superintendent at Vanier Centre. The centre, which was opened in 1969, to replace the old Mercer Reformatory in Toronto, is a therapeutic community, Byrd explains. The residents, 75 per cent of whom are under 25 years of age, live in cottage-style buldings, where each spends leisure time in her own room.
Mike Byrd, 34, is deputy superintendent at Vanier Centre. The centre, which was opened in 1969, to replace the old Mercer Reformatory in Toronto, is a therapeutic community, Byrd explains. The residents, 75 per cent of whom are under 25 years of age, live in cottage-style buldings, where each spends leisure time in her own room.
2/15/1973
I'm always meeting people,' streetcleaner Fred Bowers, 64, says as he talks with George Fallis, an attorney who lives on Strathallan Blvd. Most persons on his beat know Bowers, who finds lost children and delivers messages - and, off duty, collect cameras, processes still and movie films, fishes and ties flies.
I'm always meeting people,' streetcleaner Fred Bowers, 64, says as he talks with George Fallis, an attorney who lives on Strathallan Blvd. Most persons on his beat know Bowers, who finds lost children and delivers messages - and, off duty, collect cameras, processes still and movie films, fishes and ties flies.
6/9/1972
MacDonald: If profits hadn't been exported, Subbury wouldn't be suffering, says union leader
MacDonald: If profits hadn't been exported, Subbury wouldn't be suffering, says union leader
6/4/1982
Rewarding choice: By cutting back its Canadian operations Time Canada may have forfeited its tax-deductibility, but final result shows booming profits, says president Hugh Findlay.
Rewarding choice: By cutting back its Canadian operations Time Canada may have forfeited its tax-deductibility, but final result shows booming profits, says president Hugh Findlay.
10/17/1979
Bargain rates: Samuel Bresler's Budget Car Rentals may lead the business in Toronto but he is worried about stiff competition which he claims is squeezing profits.
Bargain rates: Samuel Bresler's Budget Car Rentals may lead the business in Toronto but he is worried about stiff competition which he claims is squeezing profits.
7/8/1981
New concept: Ted Grizzle's Thrift Villa discount store is a private venture that donates 40 per cent of its net profits to the Metropolitan Toronto Association for the Mentally Retarded
New concept: Ted Grizzle's Thrift Villa discount store is a private venture that donates 40 per cent of its net profits to the Metropolitan Toronto Association for the Mentally Retarded
2/4/1985
MLA Harold Steves. Few land profits go to the farmer
MLA Harold Steves. Few land profits go to the farmer
4/14/1973
H. S, (Stan) Bond won't retire although he'll soon be 94. He's too old to renew his driver's license so makes his sales calls via bus and streetcar. Bond thinks today's company managers would do a better job if they were given bonuses for boosting profits. His customer say he knows merchandise well.
H. S, (Stan) Bond won't retire although he'll soon be 94. He's too old to renew his driver's license so makes his sales calls via bus and streetcar. Bond thinks today's company managers would do a better job if they were given bonuses for boosting profits. His customer say he knows merchandise well.
1/4/1973
U. Gary Charlwood. Carving profits out of housing
U. Gary Charlwood. Carving profits out of housing
6/6/1978