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Happy camper: We may be skids but we're high-class skids, says Skid-City's Linda Metten
Happy camper: We may be skids but we're high-class skids, says Skid-City's Linda Metten

Happy camper: We may be skids but we're high-class skids, says Skid-City's Linda Metten

Date10/6/1993
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Original Toronto Star caption: Happy camper: We may be skids but we're high-class skids; says Skid-City's Linda Metten.
Subject
GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
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Photographs
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0011297F
Mannix, who says he has lived on the streets for 20 years, stops to count his money, above left, before buying fries at a chip wagon
Mannix, who says he has lived on the streets for 20 years, stops to count his money, above left, before buying fries at a chip wagon
Power, Peter
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Kids shouldn't have to live in a place like this, says single mother who shares a basement flat with two small children
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Hearth of darkness: One of the estimated 14,000 to 20,000 persons opposition critics say now are living on the streets of Metro Toronto
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Bull, Ron
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Last resort: Some homeless folk shun city hostels, finding shelter in spots such as this, under a stairwell in the City Hall parking garage
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Stuparyk, Michael
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Cruel city
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Faught, Ken
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Cruel city
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Spremo, Boris
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Spremo, Boris
12/13/1991
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Stawicki, Andrew
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Doing the housecleaning for a home in a hole in the ground leading under the Rosedale subway, city workmen Peter Marchese and Frank Capapello remove d(...)
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Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
11/26/1970
Letter from Committee of the Temperance Reformation Society to the Worshipful, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Councilmen of the City of Toronto, 11 Dec. 1843, pp. 3-4
Letter from Committee of the Temperance Reformation Society to the Worshipful, the Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Councilmen of the City of Toronto, 11 Dec. 1843, pp. 3-4
Temperance Reformation Society
1843-12-11