Skip to main content
Digital Archive Ontario Homepage
Twenty years ago, he was a flower child, a young idealist drifting across the continent with a disenchanted generation that was going to change the world
Twenty years ago, he was a flower child, a young idealist drifting across the continent with a disenchanted generation that was going to change the world

Twenty years ago, he was a flower child, a young idealist drifting across the continent with a disenchanted generation that was going to change the world

Date6/13/1987
Names
(author)
Format
Medium
Language
ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0131413F
Across the ages: Bill King, who's 100 years young, shares a smile with a youngster in a play-school run by Grade 12 students learning about child care
Across the ages: Bill King, who's 100 years young, shares a smile with a youngster in a play-school run by Grade 12 students learning about child care
5/15/1992
I just met a man who doesn't have a single complaint. Sik Kan Chung is 91. It took him 15 minutes to walk across the park to Woodgreen Community Centre from his place to meet me. Ten years ago it took him only 10 minutes. Another 10 years, maybe it will take half an hour, he said, laughing so hard his glasses slid down his nose. [Incomplete]
I just met a man who doesn't have a single complaint. Sik Kan Chung is 91. It took him 15 minutes to walk across the park to Woodgreen Community Centre from his place to meet me. Ten years ago it took him only 10 minutes. Another 10 years, maybe it will take half an hour, he said, laughing so hard his glasses slid down his nose. [Incomplete]
5/26/1984
Twenty-five years ago Bernie Farber was rescued by Peter Iswolsky.
Twenty-five years ago Bernie Farber was rescued by Peter Iswolsky.
3/13/1992
A dream come true for former Scarborough insurance man Frederick Carlisle is his three-hulled Caravel II. He bought it 5 years ago for $25,000 and has cruised more than 20,000 miles with his daughters Nora, 11 (left) and Mary, 13, (right) and his wife. During the five-year getaway on the world's oceans the girls managed to pick up six years' credits on their correspondence courses. The Carlisles are thinking of crossing the Atlantic Ocean a second time next year.
A dream come true for former Scarborough insurance man Frederick Carlisle is his three-hulled Caravel II. He bought it 5 years ago for $25,000 and has cruised more than 20,000 miles with his daughters Nora, 11 (left) and Mary, 13, (right) and his wife. During the five-year getaway on the world's oceans the girls managed to pick up six years' credits on their correspondence courses. The Carlisles are thinking of crossing the Atlantic Ocean a second time next year.
9/3/1970
Hendryk Feld, 72, has always enjoyed sharing his knowledge of history and the arts with the young people he meets. Since he came to Toronto from Connecticut two years ago, he has put pu displays in the foyer of the University Settlement. This one commemor
Hendryk Feld, 72, has always enjoyed sharing his knowledge of history and the arts with the young people he meets. Since he came to Toronto from Connecticut two years ago, he has put pu displays in the foyer of the University Settlement. This one commemor
3/16/1971
Hundreds of rocks are displayed in the mineralogy department laboratory of the Royal Ontario Museum as Dr. Joseph Mandarino, head of the department, talks with 13-year-old Steven Berdock. Steven began collecting specimens two years ago and is proud of the display he has at home. The museum's collection is one of the fienst in North America and among the best ten in the world.
Hundreds of rocks are displayed in the mineralogy department laboratory of the Royal Ontario Museum as Dr. Joseph Mandarino, head of the department, talks with 13-year-old Steven Berdock. Steven began collecting specimens two years ago and is proud of the display he has at home. The museum's collection is one of the fienst in North America and among the best ten in the world.
1/8/1971
Puppy love isn't saddling Metro with as many unwanted pets as it used to, says George Banton, chief animal control officer for the Borough of York. Above, he displays one of the York animal shelter's inmates, a young part-German Shepherd. The animal shelter now has empty cages and Banton gives the credit to the borough's low-cost spay-neuter program, begun two years ago.
Puppy love isn't saddling Metro with as many unwanted pets as it used to, says George Banton, chief animal control officer for the Borough of York. Above, he displays one of the York animal shelter's inmates, a young part-German Shepherd. The animal shelter now has empty cages and Banton gives the credit to the borough's low-cost spay-neuter program, begun two years ago.
6/15/1978
Young scientist: Twenty-year-old Wayne Conrad of Whiby holds air cleaner ionizer he designed and manufactures at his own plant.
Young scientist: Twenty-year-old Wayne Conrad of Whiby holds air cleaner ionizer he designed and manufactures at his own plant.
4/2/1984
Engineer wins our fifth prize, Twenty years ago, a San Francisco professor told Dan Mackie, this week's Sunday Star short story winner, that he could write if he just put his mind to it
Engineer wins our fifth prize, Twenty years ago, a San Francisco professor told Dan Mackie, this week's Sunday Star short story winner, that he could write if he just put his mind to it
11/3/1982
Research Chemist Dr. Harold Schiff pilots his own plane to meetings across the continent on problems of the ozone layer
Research Chemist Dr. Harold Schiff pilots his own plane to meetings across the continent on problems of the ozone layer
1/18/1979
Defying icy roads, bitter iwnds and the longest highway in the world since he left Vancouver Jan. 7, adventurer Mike Flynn is cycling across Canada because it is there. The tall, 32-year-old cyclist from Niagara Falls is also zooming across the country -
Defying icy roads, bitter iwnds and the longest highway in the world since he left Vancouver Jan. 7, adventurer Mike Flynn is cycling across Canada because it is there. The tall, 32-year-old cyclist from Niagara Falls is also zooming across the country -
2/14/1983
Right on track: Three generations of the Beasley family have operated their family-run amusement park on Centre Island for the past 25 years. General manager Bill Beasley, left holds daughter Lisa.
Right on track: Three generations of the Beasley family have operated their family-run amusement park on Centre Island for the past 25 years. General manager Bill Beasley, left holds daughter Lisa.
6/22/1991