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Superior quality: Silver Snail owner Ron Van Leeuwen is surrounded by the transformer toys he imports from Japan
Superior quality: Silver Snail owner Ron Van Leeuwen is surrounded by the transformer toys he imports from Japan

Superior quality: Silver Snail owner Ron Van Leeuwen is surrounded by the transformer toys he imports from Japan

Date6/27/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: Superior quality: Silver Snail owner Ron Van Leeuwen is surrounded by the transformer toys he imports from Japan.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0018144F
      Their Jobs Eliminated by Ottawa's quotas on shoe imports, Frank Van Beek (left), Ray Haines (right) and a third employee of Shoe Import Co
      Their Jobs Eliminated by Ottawa's quotas on shoe imports, Frank Van Beek (left), Ray Haines (right) and a third employee of Shoe Import Co
      Lennon, Frank
      12/5/1977
      A battery of giant transformers (above) at the Beauharnois power plant-which make ordinary electrical apparatus look kids' toys. Generator room (right(...)
      A battery of giant transformers (above) at the Beauharnois power plant-which make ordinary electrical apparatus look kids' toys. Generator room (right(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      6/18/1932
      What's up? A newly hatched cockatiel takes a look at the world as he stands on the hand of John Bennett, the birdman of Durham. The Uxbridge resident imports and breeds exotic birds and has a stock of 400 feathered friends ranging from finches to toucans.
      What's up? A newly hatched cockatiel takes a look at the world as he stands on the hand of John Bennett, the birdman of Durham. The Uxbridge resident imports and breeds exotic birds and has a stock of 400 feathered friends ranging from finches to toucans.
      Dunlop, Alan
      6/15/1982
      Michael Davis: President of thriving L. Davis Textiles is one of the beneficiaries of Canadian quotas on textile imports but he complains of gross abuse of quota limits by customs officials to ensure that annual limits are not exceeded. Davis' Toronto firm, which specializes in children's sleepwear, employs 200. About 200,000 are employed in the industry nationally.
      Michael Davis: President of thriving L. Davis Textiles is one of the beneficiaries of Canadian quotas on textile imports but he complains of gross abuse of quota limits by customs officials to ensure that annual limits are not exceeded. Davis' Toronto firm, which specializes in children's sleepwear, employs 200. About 200,000 are employed in the industry nationally.
      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      1/10/1980
      Barbary sheep from the Atlas Mountains of North Africa are among the imports who have adjusted to the severe Canadian winters at the Ontario Zoologica(...)
      Barbary sheep from the Atlas Mountains of North Africa are among the imports who have adjusted to the severe Canadian winters at the Ontario Zoologica(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      1/12/1966
      Without tariff protection against cheap imports from countries like China, Poland, Brazil and Romania, we would have had to close here.
      Without tariff protection against cheap imports from countries like China, Poland, Brazil and Romania, we would have had to close here.
      Dunlop, Alan
      4/1/1990
      Traditional bread: Robert Marchese of Friull Fine Foods says his shop imports Colomba, a dove-shaped egg bread, from Italy each Easter.
      Traditional bread: Robert Marchese of Friull Fine Foods says his shop imports Colomba, a dove-shaped egg bread, from Italy each Easter.
      Bull, Ron
      3/30/1990
      Canadian birds are old hat to these Cree Indian children from the mohawk Institute, a residential school in Brantford, who met some imports ar Riverda(...)
      Canadian birds are old hat to these Cree Indian children from the mohawk Institute, a residential school in Brantford, who met some imports ar Riverda(...)
      James, Norman
      5/27/1966
      Accounts of the exports and imports of the North American Provinces, so far as regards the trade with other colonies and with foreign countries. Ordered to be printed 9th March 1838
      Accounts of the exports and imports of the North American Provinces, so far as regards the trade with other colonies and with foreign countries. Ordered to be printed 9th March 1838
      Great Britain. Inspector-General of Exports and Import
      1838
      Garment workers protest imports
      Garment workers protest imports
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      11/2/1977
      Murray Chercover. All for more imports
      Murray Chercover. All for more imports
      Chercover, Murray, 1929-2010
      9/18/1969
      Stoppage of food supplies is a heavy blow to Bolivia which normally imports 90 per cent
      Stoppage of food supplies is a heavy blow to Bolivia which normally imports 90 per cent
      Jacobs, Fenno
      10/23/1948