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Steve Gately: Vice-president of Maple Leaf Plastics Corp. of Toronto persisted and eventually won funding from a federal-provincial program. He hired 12 men to renovate his 40-year-old plant.
Steve Gately: Vice-president of Maple Leaf Plastics Corp. of Toronto persisted and eventually won funding from a federal-provincial program. He hired 12 men to renovate his 40-year-old plant.

Steve Gately: Vice-president of Maple Leaf Plastics Corp. of Toronto persisted and eventually won funding from a federal-provincial program. He hired 12 men to renovate his 40-year-old plant.

Date2/9/1984
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0127596F
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New job: Gordon Capital Corp. has hired leading women's rights advocate Chaviva Hosek to head marketing of a new investment program for pension funds
New job: Gordon Capital Corp. has hired leading women's rights advocate Chaviva Hosek to head marketing of a new investment program for pension funds
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Full-time job at a plastic's factory in Mississauga supplements Bob Lively's meagre income as assistant pastor at Willowdale Baptist Church. But he sa(...)
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