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A silent city remembers. Honor guard at old city hall stands with bowed head today as the chimes tolled at 11 a.m. to mark the 50th anniversary of the(...)
A silent city remembers. Honor guard at old city hall stands with bowed head today as the chimes tolled at 11 a.m. to mark the 50th anniversary of the(...)

A silent city remembers. Honor guard at old city hall stands with bowed head today as the chimes tolled at 11 a.m. to mark the 50th anniversary of the(...)

Date11/11/1968
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Original Toronto Star caption: A silent city remembers. Honor guard at old city hall stands with bowed head today as the chimes tolled at 11 a.m. to mark the 50th anniversary of the World War I armistice. For the way World War I veterans recall their war experiences.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0001567F
Head bowed over his reversed weapon, a seaman from HMCS York stands guard over the wreaths piled before Toronto's Cenotaph in front of the old city ha(...)
Head bowed over his reversed weapon, a seaman from HMCS York stands guard over the wreaths piled before Toronto's Cenotaph in front of the old city ha(...)
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'. . . As we who are left grow old'. With head bowed over his reversed rifle, Paul Boulding, 16, Royal Canadian Sea Cadets, stands guard at Cenotaph i(...)
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11/4/1967
An old warrior remembers. An old campaigner, one leg off at the hip, sits in silent tribute to fallen comrades as two sailors keep watch during the an(...)
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11/11/1969
A man in uniform stands, with bowed head, in front of the cenotaph at Old City hall, which read ...
Brief silence: At 11 a.m. yesterday veterans and soldiers at the old city hall cenotaph observed a minute's silence to recall the fighters who died in the two world wars and the Korean conflict
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Moustache Bristling, President Ben Phoenix of the Army, Navy and Air Force 306 Owls Unit, stands at attention during 11 a.m. service in front of Cenot(...)
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A member of the Color Guard of the Earlscourt branch of the Royal Canadian Legion stands with reversed arms during the sunrise service at Prospect Cemetery today
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A new generation remembers, World War II vet Merril Brooks of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 582 in Cooksville, admires the poppy worn by Brett Mars(...)
A new generation remembers, World War II vet Merril Brooks of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 582 in Cooksville, admires the poppy worn by Brett Mars(...)
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A vet remembers
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Boer war veteran remembers comrades
Boer war veteran remembers comrades
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Proudly marching across the square at City Hall today after laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in honor of their fallen comrades are Dieppe prisoners of (...)
Proudly marching across the square at City Hall today after laying a wreath at the Cenotaph in honor of their fallen comrades are Dieppe prisoners of (...)
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War blinded honor comrades, Blind veterans Charles Hornsby (left) and Ivan White of Victoria march yesterday to the Cenotaph at the old city hall, esc(...)
War blinded honor comrades, Blind veterans Charles Hornsby (left) and Ivan White of Victoria march yesterday to the Cenotaph at the old city hall, esc(...)
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