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Doing their own thing: Techstar Plastics' president Tom Taylor (left) and vice-president Bill Barnes
Doing their own thing: Techstar Plastics' president Tom Taylor (left) and vice-president Bill Barnes

Doing their own thing: Techstar Plastics' president Tom Taylor (left) and vice-president Bill Barnes

Date11/3/1978
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0134722F
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.
2/9/1984
First President of the newly-formed Occidental Life Insurance Co. of Canada is Michael Barnes, 52, left, with Earl Clark, president of the California-based parent company. The two spent an hour and a half yesterday signing hundreds of documents required to launch the firm, which will offer new product lines.
First President of the newly-formed Occidental Life Insurance Co. of Canada is Michael Barnes, 52, left, with Earl Clark, president of the California-based parent company. The two spent an hour and a half yesterday signing hundreds of documents required to launch the firm, which will offer new product lines.
1/12/1971
Come together: Ron Evason, president of the Society of the Plastics Industry of Canada, says many small manufacturers may have to band together in order to succeed in the tough international marketplace.
Come together: Ron Evason, president of the Society of the Plastics Industry of Canada, says many small manufacturers may have to band together in order to succeed in the tough international marketplace.
5/26/1982
Campaign manager: Kenneth Barnes, president of the Canadian Advertising Advisory Board, helped organize the forces which will take Newfoundland to court over its 4-per-cent tax on advertising.
Campaign manager: Kenneth Barnes, president of the Canadian Advertising Advisory Board, helped organize the forces which will take Newfoundland to court over its 4-per-cent tax on advertising.
10/9/1981
U of T team led by Ian Manners is working on inorganic plastics with desirable properties, like the suppleness of the sillicon-plastic soles that left Neil Armstrong's foot prints on the cold, cold moon
U of T team led by Ian Manners is working on inorganic plastics with desirable properties, like the suppleness of the sillicon-plastic soles that left Neil Armstrong's foot prints on the cold, cold moon
8/19/1991
Debt repaid: AGO vice-president Georgia Prassas hands over a cheque yesterday to Metro Chairman Alan Tonks, repaying a $1 million loan from Metro Council to help bring the Barnes Exhibit to town
Debt repaid: AGO vice-president Georgia Prassas hands over a cheque yesterday to Metro Chairman Alan Tonks, repaying a $1 million loan from Metro Council to help bring the Barnes Exhibit to town
2/13/1995
Health costs are rising too fast, says committee including, left to right: Boyd Suttie, assistant deputy health minister, Allyn Taylor, committee chairman, Andrew Gillies, Ontario Medical Association executive director, William Vail, OMA vice-president, a
Health costs are rising too fast, says committee including, left to right: Boyd Suttie, assistant deputy health minister, Allyn Taylor, committee chairman, Andrew Gillies, Ontario Medical Association executive director, William Vail, OMA vice-president, a
1/13/1978
Health costs are rising too fast, says committee including, left to right: Boyd Suttie, assistant deputy health minister, Allyn Taylor, committee chairman, Andrew Gillies, Ontario Medical Association executive director, William Vail, OMA vice-president, and Rendell Dick, Ontario's deputy treasurer
Health costs are rising too fast, says committee including, left to right: Boyd Suttie, assistant deputy health minister, Allyn Taylor, committee chairman, Andrew Gillies, Ontario Medical Association executive director, William Vail, OMA vice-president, and Rendell Dick, Ontario's deputy treasurer
1/13/1978
Relaxing in plywood chair he designed and made, Don McKinley is surrounded with other furnishings he has created using white sewer piping and plastics
Relaxing in plywood chair he designed and made, Don McKinley is surrounded with other furnishings he has created using white sewer piping and plastics
5/15/1974
Musical phone plays the market. Touch-tone telephone, demonstrated by Bell vice-president M.N. Davies, can, via a computer link, buy your groceries, place your stock market orders or keep you nicely seperated from your bank manager by doing your banking.
Musical phone plays the market. Touch-tone telephone, demonstrated by Bell vice-president M.N. Davies, can, via a computer link, buy your groceries, place your stock market orders or keep you nicely seperated from your bank manager by doing your banking.
2/20/1969
On his first visit to a barber in two years Richard Barnes has the finishing touches put on his brush cut and beard trim by Al Puma at Toronto Barbering School, Puma used to be called a barber but, to survive in these long-hair days, he's had to become a
On his first visit to a barber in two years Richard Barnes has the finishing touches put on his brush cut and beard trim by Al Puma at Toronto Barbering School, Puma used to be called a barber but, to survive in these long-hair days, he's had to become a
10/23/1974
Christopher Barnes, I was too tired to fight
Christopher Barnes, I was too tired to fight
11/11/1970