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It's my mother, it's my mother, 45-year-old David Barnett cries as they are reunited at Toronto International Airport - they had been separated for 29(...)
It's my mother, it's my mother, 45-year-old David Barnett cries as they are reunited at Toronto International Airport - they had been separated for 29(...)

It's my mother, it's my mother, 45-year-old David Barnett cries as they are reunited at Toronto International Airport - they had been separated for 29(...)

Date8/24/1978
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  • It's my mother, it's my mother, 45-year-old David Barnett cries as they are reunited at Toronto International Airport - they had been separated for 29(...)
  • It's my mother; it's my mother; 45-year-old David Barnett cries as they are reunited at Toronto International Airport - they had been separated for 29 years. His parents separated while living in England and he came to Canada.
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Original Toronto Star caption: It's my mother; it's my mother; 45-year-old David Barnett cries as they are reunited at Toronto International Airport - they had been separated for 29 years. His parents separated while living in England and he came to Canada.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0022936F
Nancy MacIldoon, a 26-year-old separated mother, gets a little help with the laundry from daughters Lisa, one, left, and Jennifer, 2. It's an uphill s(...)
Nancy MacIldoon, a 26-year-old separated mother, gets a little help with the laundry from daughters Lisa, one, left, and Jennifer, 2. It's an uphill s(...)
Combs, Erin
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50 Years of being separated ended yesterday for Luise Franchi (left) of Philadelphia when she was reunited with her sister, Lucia Gangolf of France. ((...)
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Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
7/21/1978
End of an ordeal: Debbie Bastien cries as she talks to reporters after an inquest into the death of her husband, who was shot outside his Windsor-area home by Opp
End of an ordeal: Debbie Bastien cries as she talks to reporters after an inquest into the death of her husband, who was shot outside his Windsor-area home by Opp
Bastien, Bernard
13 April 1989
It's a greeting without words for Karl Graf and his daughters, Elizabeth (left), 42, Elsa, 45, and Rosa 35
It's a greeting without words for Karl Graf and his daughters, Elizabeth (left), 42, Elsa, 45, and Rosa 35
Lennon, Frank
1/12/1978
Financial struggle: It's hard to live on $426 a month when you have two children, says single mother Thelma Van Ewyk seen here with daughter Laura Jane, 8 in $97-a-month apartment
Financial struggle: It's hard to live on $426 a month when you have two children, says single mother Thelma Van Ewyk seen here with daughter Laura Jane, 8 in $97-a-month apartment
Lennon, Frank
2/23/1981
Mother and daughters reunited after 30 years
Mother and daughters reunited after 30 years
Brennan, Pat
7/17/1978
A happy Doris Crewe (second from left) was reunited at Pearson Airport last night with two daughters she hadn't seen in 25 years - Diane Smith of Durh(...)
A happy Doris Crewe (second from left) was reunited at Pearson Airport last night with two daughters she hadn't seen in 25 years - Diane Smith of Durh(...)
Mahler, John
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Left behind in Czechoslovakia when she was only 2 months old, 7-year-old Stella Petrovic (right) has been reunited with her parents, Peter and Kathy P(...)
Left behind in Czechoslovakia when she was only 2 months old, 7-year-old Stella Petrovic (right) has been reunited with her parents, Peter and Kathy P(...)
Beaty, Keith
2/8/1976
Working single parent Jeannie Westdyke, with son, Gord, says unmarried mothers on welfare should be willing to work for the minimum wage and learn how to live on it the way we all had to do
Working single parent Jeannie Westdyke, with son, Gord, says unmarried mothers on welfare should be willing to work for the minimum wage and learn how to live on it the way we all had to do
Darrell, Dick
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Maurice Stern and his sister, Mrs. Philip Greenspan, are re-united with their brother from Brazil, Jonas Stern, centre, after being separated for fifty years
Maurice Stern and his sister, Mrs. Philip Greenspan, are re-united with their brother from Brazil, Jonas Stern, centre, after being separated for fifty years
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
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Separated 40 years ago from her two younger sisters, Pat Kewell, centre, wrote to Have Your Say and located one of them, Jessie Barker, left, right aw(...)
Separated 40 years ago from her two younger sisters, Pat Kewell, centre, wrote to Have Your Say and located one of them, Jessie Barker, left, right aw(...)
Dunlop, Al
1/23/1982
It's an occasion
It's an occasion
Brazao, Dale
9/8/1979