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  Toronto EMS' History
These were donated to the Toronto Police Force by the Manufacturer's Life Insurance Company and by the publisher of the Toronto Telegram newspaper.
Toronto EMS still owns a 1953 Henney Packard ambulance, which is typical of the period.
Toronto EMS operates the largest paramedic training academy in Canada, and may train as many paramedics as any institution in North America.
www.toronto.ca /ems/overview/history.htm   (2589 words)

  
  Transit Toronto - Content: The Expressways of Toronto (Built and Unbuilt)
In 1953 Metropolitan Toronto was incorporated by the Province of Ontario, as a new upper-tier government for the City of Toronto and 12 surrounding municipalities (Townships of York, East York, North York, Etobicoke, Scarborough; the towns of Weston, Leaside, Mimico and New Toronto and villages of Swansea, Long Branch and Forest Hill).
Meanwhile the "Toronto Bypass" was being constructed north of the city.
The Spadina Expressway was to connect central Toronto with the rapidly growing suburbs in the northwest, as the DVP connected with the northeast.
transit.toronto.on.ca /spare/0019.shtml   (4347 words)

  
  Toronto Sun - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Sun was first published on November 1, 1971, the Monday after the demise of the Toronto Telegram, a conservative broadsheet.
The Toronto Sun is modeled on British tabloid journalism, even borrowing the name of The Sun newspaper published in London, and some of the features, including the Sunshine Girl, who was on the same page as the British paper.
On the verge of the Iraq war, the headline for the Toronto Star was "Faces on the Verge of War", and the headline for the Toronto Sun was "NOLAN A LEAF", showcasing a hockey trade from the San Jose Sharks to the Toronto Maple Leafs.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toronto_Sun   (844 words)

  
 Toronto Telegram - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Toronto Telegram (previously the Toronto Evening Telegram) was a conservative, broadsheet afternoon daily newspaper published in Toronto.
The Telegram's Editor from 1876 to 1899 was Alexander Fraser Pirie (1849-1903) who was a native of Guelph, Ontario.
Pirie left the Telegram in 1889 and was the publisher of the Dundas Banner until his death.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Toronto_Telegram   (406 words)

  
 Toronto Sun
The Toronto Sun was first published in November 1971 by founders Douglas Creighton, Donald Hunt and Peter Worthington, after the demise of The Toronto Telegram.
The Toronto Telegram subscriber lists were sold to The Toronto Star but the vending boxes were kept as were 62 staffers from The Telegram.
As there was no publishing gap between the two papers and many writers and employees moved to the new paper, it is today generally considered as a direct continuation of the Telegram, and the Sun is the holder of the Telegram archives.
www.lycos.com /info/toronto-sun.html   (418 words)

  
 Toronto Telegram - Definition, explanation
The Toronto Telegram (previously the Toronto Evening Telegram) was a conservative, broadsheet afternoon daily newspaper published in Toronto.
In the 1960s, the paper had increasing difficulty competing with the liberal Toronto Star and suffered a series of strikes by its printing union.
In the book The Death Of The Toronto Telegram (1971), former Telegram writer Jock Carroll describes the decline of the paper, and provides many anecdotes about the Canadian newspaper business from the 1950s until 1970.
www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/t/to/toronto_telegram.php   (192 words)

  
 Canadian Opera Company
'In defence of opera,' Toronto Telegram, 4 Oct 1969
Geiger-Torel, H. 'Toronto's Opera School and Opera Company,' Opera J, vol 6, Sep 1973
Four handbooks: Canadian Opera Company 1950-1974, 1950-1975, 1950-1976, 1950-1977 (Toronto 1974-7)
www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com /index.cfm?PgNm=TCE&Params=U1ARTU0000585SUBReadings   (388 words)

  
 Waddington's™ Brighton
Canada was still 17 years away from Confederation and Toronto's population was less than 20,000 when Waddington's™ began life in the auction business.
He was one of Toronto's great Victorians keeping company with Toronto notables Ned Hanlan, Canada's first international sports hero and world-class rowing champion, and Goldwin Smith, noted author and historian.
Many auctions were held directly on the Toronto docks, with Charlie deftly taking bids from the crowds as containers of fruit and dry goods were unloaded.
www.waddingtons.ca /brighton/about.php   (780 words)

  
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Toronto Telegram Photograph Collection, Archives and Special Collections
These photographs are part of the Toronto Telegram photograph collection which is held in Archives and Special Collections.
Reproduction of images, both prints and negatives, can also be ordered through Archives and Special Collections, subject to any copyright restrictions that may apply.
info.library.yorku.ca /webpub/telegram/telegram.htm   (100 words)

  
 azerbic - Antonia Zerbisias - Toronto Star Blog
The views expressed are those of the writer and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Toronto Star or www.thestar.com.
Nearly three years ago, the Toronto Sun's Eric Margolis, one of the finest and most prescient writers on foreign affairs anywhere, walked away from his regular gig on TVO's Diplomatic Immunity because, as he told me at the time, producer "(Dan) Dunsky et.
Considering his run as a Conservative in the Toronto riding of St. Paul's during the last federal election, I would think he would be sticking to his responsibilities as executive in charge of equipment.
thestar.blogs.com /azerb   (5872 words)

  
 alumni
It will be a gathering of the crème de la crème of Canadian talent, across the spectrum in terms of modes of performance and age.
’83), director, Newfoundland Symphony Youth Choir announcing that the choir performed for Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Phillip on Oct. 10 in Toronto.
Markets for high-end dimension stone products are growing internationally and new sources of dimension stone are increasingly being sought around the world each year.
www.mun.ca /marcomm/gazette/2002-2003/oct17/alumni.html   (348 words)

  
 Marilyn Monroe Singing Telegram Toronto | Torontoseeker.com
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 INSIDE THE TORONTO STAR (Templeton Memoir)   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Telegram (whose standards were not much higher) sometimes kidnapped newsworthy persons, wining and dining them in locked hotel rooms to keep them from talking to the opposition.
His criticisms of stories and headlines were usually valid and, although sometimes you would go from a meeting grinding your teeth with rage, you would have a grudging admiration for his editor's eye.
Telegram was organizing to print the latest results and pictures first and we had laid elaborate plans to beat them at their own game.
www.templetons.com /charles/memoir/chap5.html   (16358 words)

  
 Frank K. Clarke| "Keep Communism Out of Our Schools": Cold War Anti-Communism at the Toronto Board of ...
Historians of Ontario’s postwar school system believe that Neatby overstated her case, and, in fact, have argued that while educators may have used the language of progressivism in the 1940s and 1950s, most of them continued to rely on the traditionalist approach of the textbook, flboard, and the teacher’s voice until the 1960s.
The Finance Committee’s position was applauded by the Toronto Telegram, whose editorial urged the Board as a whole "to confirm that decision" at its upcoming meeting.
Despite the fact that Communists were relegated to the fringe on the Board and elsewhere, the Toronto Board of Education clearly saw Communism as a threat to the school system and was determined to counter it through policies aimed at upholding a Cold War anti-Communist consensus for future generations.
www.historycooperative.org /journals/llt/49/04clarke.html   (7301 words)

  
 Friday
Toronto, Canada's largest city with a population of 5 million, has five daily papers, with 75 percent of the city's households taking at least one paper every day.
Since 1893, when the Toronto Star was launched to compete with the Globe (now Globe and Mail) and the Toronto Telegram, the city has only been without three major papers for one day.
Loren Lind, a journalism professor at Toronto’s Ryerson University, believes the large readership and newspaper saturation is due in part to the nation’s high-quality TV journalism on the CBC but also to an accident of history.
www.medialifemagazine.com /news2002/aug02/aug12/5_fri/news5friday.html   (706 words)

  
 Worcester Telegram & Gazette News   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Toronto’s A.J. Burnett reacts as Boston’s David Ortiz rounds the bases during the third inning of the Blue Jays’ 7-6 win.
TORONTO— A much-anticipated pitching matchup between Boston’s Josh Beckett and Toronto’s A.J. Burnett was completely overshadowed by a barrage of eight home runs that accounted for all the game’s runs except the all-important final tally last night.
Toronto got great relief from closer B.J. Ryan, who retired all six batters he faced in the ninth and 10th, and Speier, who pitched hitless ball in the 11th and 12th.
www.telegram.com /apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060422/NEWS/604220328/1009/SPORTS   (937 words)

  
 Toronto: City of Dreams   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Toronto Leafs go on to their first Stanley Cup in 1942, becoming a powerhouse during the 1940s and 60s.
Toronto Hockey legends are at their zenith: Conn Smythe, Red Horner, King Clancy, Hap Day, Lionel and Charlie Conacher, Ace Bailey.
Toronto sports star Fanny (Bobbie) Rosenfeld, is an all round athlete: hockey, baseball, shot put, broad jump, running.
collections.ic.gc.ca /toronto/sports.html   (762 words)

  
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Toronto citizen Norman Similas claims he took a photo of the window from which Lee Harvey Oswald shot JFK.
Toronto citizen Allen Black claims he was in Dealey Plaza at the moment of the shooting.
Toronto Star Telegram reporter Peter Worthington was present at the scene of Lee Oswald's murder.
www.geocities.com /denismorissette/Newspapers.html   (708 words)

  
 Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online
The unionization of the Telegram’s printers was significant in that it completed the unionization of all Toronto newspapers and hastened the acceptance of trade unions as a legitimate part of industrial organization.
The Telegram specialized in presenting news in the form of a pot-pourri of titbit items, trivia, maverick politics, and vigorous local political crusades, one of the first being against a proposal for a bonus of $250,000 from the city to the promoters of the Credit Valley Railway.
The Telegram was regarded as an important and “uncompromising” campaigner in the fight for public ownership of hydroelectric power in the early 1900s, a policy advocated by Adam Beck* and his fellow Tory mlas under James Pliny Whitney.
www.biographi.ca /EN/ShowBio.asp?BioId=41796   (3881 words)

  
 TMLfans.ca: The Toronto Maple Leafs News & Views Hockey Source   (Site not responding. Last check: )
A crushing final blow to Leafs fans who hadn’t seen the team advance to the final four in the previous 15 years, and still have not played in the NHL’s final round since winning the Cup in 1967 when you were six-years old.
Toronto fans are still lying on psychiatrists' couches, describing that wrap-around marker following a rush down the right side and behind the net in which the puck eventually deflected off Dave Ellett's skate behind Felix Potvin.
Your tirade against the officials at the end of the first period proved to be the catalyst in the Coyotes rally and eventual victory.
www.tmlfans.ca /offthepost/post20060115.php   (884 words)

  
 Edwin Boyd, bank robber in training - Toronto's Infamous 'Boyd Gang' - CBC Archives
He rejects the religious leanings of his father (a Toronto cop) and rides the rails of the Great Depression, living outside the law.
Toronto Daily Star, were locked in a fierce circulation war, and were quick to publicize the daring bank robberies.
Telegram's Val Sears said the competition was so furious that reporters would sometimes remove the telephone's microphone, rendering it useless for rival reporters.
archives.cbc.ca /IDC-1-69-543-2726/life_society/boyd_gang/clip1   (489 words)

  
 Massey Hall, Toronto, January 17th, 1970
They are the greatest rock group of them all these days, the most musical and the most acclaimed and for a little time at least, long enough to play two sold-out concerts in Massey Hall tonight, two in Guelph last night and another at McMaster university in Hamilton tomorrow, they are returning to their roots.
Toronto fans, as it happened, had a chance to be "there" on one occasion when Dylan and the Hawks played Massey Hall concert in October, 1965.
Finkelstein was handling the Paupers, another Toronto rock group, and he used to run into Roberson in the New York office of Albert Grossman, who handles Dylan and The Band.
theband.hiof.no /articles/massey_hall_1970.html   (5309 words)

  
 Toronto Port Authority
In 1945 he landed a job as a news photographer at the Toronto Telegram where he remained until the Telegram ceased publication in 1971.
Many of the photos were used in the THC publication Port of Toronto News.
Access to the photoprints is provided through item-level descriptive entries in the Toronto Port Authority Archives' database, and images of all the photographs can be found on the Archives' optical disc system.
www.torontoport.com /PortAuthority/Corporate_archives.asp?id=44   (435 words)

  
 Elmer Story
The Elmer Traffic Safety Program was developed in 1947 by Toronto Police Inspector Vern Page in response to community concerns over the increasing number of collisions involving children.
Demand became so strong that the Telegram, owner of the copyright, authorized the Ontario Safety League to administer the program in Ontario outside Toronto.
When the Telegram ceased publication in 1971, the Canada Safety Council negotiated the transfer of all rights to the program.
www.safety-council.org /info/child/elmer/elstory.htm   (353 words)

  
 Toronto Canada
He heads to Toronto fresh off of a podium run there last year, and has finished in the top ten in each of his last three trips.
The Toronto track is pretty bumpy and it is getting rougher and rougher every year although the track guys are trying to smooth it out and get rid of the bumps that appeared over the winter.
Toronto is a hard track, very narrow and fast so you need to be up there.
www.cartracingupdate.com /Tracks/toronto.htm   (3327 words)

  
 Bassett, John   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Few individuals in the history of Canadian television have inspired as much controversy as John Bassett, a founder of Toronto station CFTO and key figure in the formation of the CTV network, Canada's first privately-owned television network.
Bassett's promise was to compete with Buffalo, New York television stations for Toronto viewers, many of whom had been watching American programming for some years before Canadian stations came on the air.
Toronto was the center for CTV's limited Canadian production activities and Bassett and his partners began to purchase other media assets, including shares in other CTV affiliates.
www.museum.tv /archives/etv/B/htmlB/bassettjohn/bassettjohn.htm   (757 words)

  
 Endnotes; Research Notes: Balaam Descendants   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Toronto Sunday Star, 24 Apr 1955, where surname was "Felatt".
Samuel does not appear in the 1871 census for Ontario, so it is more likely 1871 is the date of his immigration and not 1869..
Toronto Daily Star, 6 Mar 1928, p 5, reports immigration as 1871.
www1.xe.net /~mbone/webtree/data/balaam_d/endnote1.htm   (3361 words)

  
 The Toronto Ornithological Club - Publications   (Site not responding. Last check: )
In addition, the Toronto Ornithological Club publishes a monthly newsletter for members from September through June, featuring reports on club activities, summaries of past meetings, recent bird sightings, and a variety of contributions from members.
This book gives the story of this great wild area through the writings of 24 people, most of whom were known personally to the editor and who knew the marsh well.
The illustrations are mostly by wildlife artists Barry MacKay, Greg Sadowski and Peter Burke, and photographs from the archives of the City of Toronto, the Royal Ontario Museum and the Toronto Ornithological Club.
www.torontobirding.ca /publications.html   (669 words)

  
 Ottawa Business Journal - News Story
Creighton began the chain in 1971 with the Toronto Sun.
The paper, given a month by its critics, was founded from the ashes of the old Toronto Telegram with $600,000 and about 60 staff.
Staff of the paper rallied behind Creighton and editor Peter Worthington in 1971 to launch the Toronto Sun after Telegram owner John Bassett decided to shut it down.
www.ottawabusinessjournal.com /279533608739055.php   (285 words)

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