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David Street, a photographer, says that a giant green watering can was his best Christmas gift yet
David Street, a photographer, says that a giant green watering can was his best Christmas gift yet

David Street, a photographer, says that a giant green watering can was his best Christmas gift yet

Date12/2/1977
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Original Toronto Star caption: David Street, a photographer, says that a giant green watering can was his best Christmas gift yet. He uses it to water his 60 plants and has even given it the name of Gerald. However he rates a hand-knitted pair of socks emblazoned with Union Jacks on the sides as his worst gift. They were from his sister living in England.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0027393F
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      hristmas Ribbon. on this $23,000 Aston Martin symbolizes dealer hn Cox's hope that somebody will buy it as a gift for a loved one. obody's taken up his offer of Christmas morning delivery yet, but other expensive items are being snapped up around Toronto. Jewelry, fur coats an gold toothpicks are big with those who don't insist on sensible gifts. Some teenagers don't mind paying $100 for a gold chain. [Incomplete]
      Goode, Jeff
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      Beaty, Keith
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      Lennon, Frank
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      The card is made of very thick cardstock. Real flowers appear to have been glued on the front t…
      The best gifts of Christmas
      approximately 1881
      Our best 75-cent Christmas gift with the first Canadian contingent : published in aid of the Canadian Field Comforts Commission
      Our best 75-cent Christmas gift with the first Canadian contingent : published in aid of the Canadian Field Comforts Commission
      Albert Britnell Book Shop
      Approximately 1914 to 1918
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      Ordering wreckers away yesterday fromhis expropriated home (in background), Jack Coltman, 60, argues with William Wasylyk (left), the owner of Lakeview Salvage Co., and Constable John Buchanan. Coltman says he has received no settlement yet for his expropriated property on Balfour Ave. and believes under this condition he can claim new rights under recent provincial expropriation legislation. His home was one of nine expropriated for new seperate school.
      Teskey, Frank
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      Combs, Erin
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      Prairie Pet needs no watering, Special to The Star, Kingston -- Thirty-year-old Kingston native Mike Nuttall, now a Calgary firefighter, hopes he can (...)
      Bull, Ron
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      Bezant, Graham
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      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
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