Skip to main content
Digital Archive Ontario Homepage
Last redcap. Dragging his empty handcart behind him this lonely redcap heads across the deserted approach to the main entrance at Toronto's Union Stat(...)
Last redcap. Dragging his empty handcart behind him this lonely redcap heads across the deserted approach to the main entrance at Toronto's Union Stat(...)

Last redcap. Dragging his empty handcart behind him this lonely redcap heads across the deserted approach to the main entrance at Toronto's Union Stat(...)

Date8/26/1966
Names
(photographer)
FormatPicture
ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0015967F
Toronto's oldest Redcap, Jake Charendoff, sits waiting for new business at Toronto's Union Station, while behind him sits redcap Bert Fortune. Charendoff picked up his first piece of baggage at Union Station on the day it opened in 1927. But, although he claims the title oldest, he refuses to say exactly how old he is.
Toronto's oldest Redcap, Jake Charendoff, sits waiting for new business at Toronto's Union Station, while behind him sits redcap Bert Fortune. Charendoff picked up his first piece of baggage at Union Station on the day it opened in 1927. But, although he claims the title oldest, he refuses to say exactly how old he is.
Spremo, Boris
1/24/1972
Toronto rail yards west of Union Station lie quiet and deserted after 118,000 railwaymen across Canada went on strike to await settlement of contract dispute
Toronto rail yards west of Union Station lie quiet and deserted after 118,000 railwaymen across Canada went on strike to await settlement of contract dispute
Spremo, Boris
8/26/1966
Screeding (levelling and smoothing) the base is done by dragging a plank across sand
Screeding (levelling and smoothing) the base is done by dragging a plank across sand
Loek, Dick
6/29/1989
Empty of Passengers - and clerks-departures Jobby at Toronto International Airport stands deserted today after 1,750 air controllers walked off their (...)
Empty of Passengers - and clerks-departures Jobby at Toronto International Airport stands deserted today after 1,750 air controllers walked off their (...)
Goode, Jeff
1/17/1972
Yes, you did see him: MASH TV star Mike Farrell turned a few heads in Metro on the weekend as he passed through town in a van that's carrying his family on a cross- Canada vacation from Hollywood
Yes, you did see him: MASH TV star Mike Farrell turned a few heads in Metro on the weekend as he passed through town in a van that's carrying his family on a cross- Canada vacation from Hollywood
Farrell, Mike, 1939-
8/2/1982
Willie Upshaw looks as if he's adding to his slugging stats
Willie Upshaw looks as if he's adding to his slugging stats
Mahler, John
6/9/1985
Stat wish. When Paul Easterbrook, 14, of Brantford, told us he wanted to be an archeologist, he didn't know what he was getting into. David L. Newlands, an archeologist at the Royal Ontario Museum, has Paul working as his assistant for three days, alanyzing material excavated from Old Fort York.
Stat wish. When Paul Easterbrook, 14, of Brantford, told us he wanted to be an archeologist, he didn't know what he was getting into. David L. Newlands, an archeologist at the Royal Ontario Museum, has Paul working as his assistant for three days, alanyzing material excavated from Old Fort York.
Cooper, David
8/20/1978
Cone fans: David Cone won't make his debut with the Blue Jays until tomorrow, but the Cone heads were out at the SkyDome last night, trumpeting his arrival with some Cone-shaped humor
Cone fans: David Cone won't make his debut with the Blue Jays until tomorrow, but the Cone heads were out at the SkyDome last night, trumpeting his arrival with some Cone-shaped humor
Cone, David
8/27/1992
Back home go two Japanese with their possessions piled high on a handcart
Back home go two Japanese with their possessions piled high on a handcart
Toronto Star (Firm)
9/18/1945
Students begin long march with giant brief, Trundling a handcart, four students left the Legislature today bound for Ottawa with a giant envelope cont(...)
Students begin long march with giant brief, Trundling a handcart, four students left the Legislature today bound for Ottawa with a giant envelope cont(...)
Barkley, Harold
8/19/1972
David Peterson, Ontario Liberal party leader is dragging out old NDP resolutions
David Peterson, Ontario Liberal party leader is dragging out old NDP resolutions
Goode, Jeff
1/8/1985
Paul Henderson, who heads Toronto's bid to be host of the 1996 Summer Games, hopes the rising SkyDome (background) will help
Paul Henderson, who heads Toronto's bid to be host of the 1996 Summer Games, hopes the rising SkyDome (background) will help
Henderson, Paul
1/26/1983