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Week of rejoicing - civic-style - was kicked off yesterday when Toronto opened its new $32 million City Hall
Week of rejoicing - civic-style - was kicked off yesterday when Toronto opened its new $32 million City Hall

Week of rejoicing - civic-style - was kicked off yesterday when Toronto opened its new $32 million City Hall

Date9/14/1965
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0111356F
Blood for Red Cross, Firefighters kicked off annual two week blood donor drive yesterday when Marlene Lincoln, Miss Metro Toronto, raised the Red Cross flag on the city's fireboat
Blood for Red Cross, Firefighters kicked off annual two week blood donor drive yesterday when Marlene Lincoln, Miss Metro Toronto, raised the Red Cross flag on the city's fireboat
Toronto Star (Firm)
11/22/1965
A magnificent new setting, but the same old fights dominated city council today at its first meeting in the $31 million city hall opened yesterday. Bu(...)
A magnificent new setting, but the same old fights dominated city council today at its first meeting in the $31 million city hall opened yesterday. Bu(...)
Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
9/14/1965
Cool cash representing the United Way's $16.2 million goal surrounds campaign chairman William Christener deep in vaults of a Metro Bank. There is is folks . . . that's exactly what we need. Let's go out and get it, Christener said as he kicked off campaign early yesterday for the media. Official appeal kick-off starts tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Nathan Phillips Square and you're invited.
Cool cash representing the United Way's $16.2 million goal surrounds campaign chairman William Christener deep in vaults of a Metro Bank. There is is folks . . . that's exactly what we need. Let's go out and get it, Christener said as he kicked off campaign early yesterday for the media. Official appeal kick-off starts tomorrow at 11 a.m. at Nathan Phillips Square and you're invited.
Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
9/22/1977
Battle Scar: Mayor Mel Lastman hikes up a trouser leg yesterday to show where he was kicked in the shin during a melee over a flag-raising ceremony at the North York civic centre's square on Sunday
Battle Scar: Mayor Mel Lastman hikes up a trouser leg yesterday to show where he was kicked in the shin during a melee over a flag-raising ceremony at the North York civic centre's square on Sunday
Lastman, Mel
12/7/1992
Quebec city, home of the famed Royal 22nd Regiment, the Van Doos, roared its welcome to its favorite son when he arrived there from Montreal for a civic reception
Quebec city, home of the famed Royal 22nd Regiment, the Van Doos, roared its welcome to its favorite son when he arrived there from Montreal for a civic reception
Toronto Star (Firm)
3/31/1944
Color covered the path of the Saturday parade that kicked off Caribana 71, the week-long celebration organized by Metro's West Indian community. These(...)
Color covered the path of the Saturday parade that kicked off Caribana 71, the week-long celebration organized by Metro's West Indian community. These(...)
Goode, Jeff
8/1/1971
A new look in banking - - hard hats and coveralls, When the Bank of Montreal opened its new branch at College and Beverley Sts. yesterday, on the edge(...)
A new look in banking - - hard hats and coveralls, When the Bank of Montreal opened its new branch at College and Beverley Sts. yesterday, on the edge(...)
Ross, Fred
9/8/1970
Hi de hi de hi, Cab Calloway and his Hi De Ho Revue kicked off the Jazz festival's mainstage concerts Friday night at Roy Thomson Hall
Hi de hi de hi, Cab Calloway and his Hi De Ho Revue kicked off the Jazz festival's mainstage concerts Friday night at Roy Thomson Hall
Calloway, Cab, 1907-1994
6/21/1991
It's 'Play Ball' again, Following official welcome at City Hall today, Toronto's baseball Maple Leafs opened their home season at Maple Leaf Stadium
It's 'Play Ball' again, Following official welcome at City Hall today, Toronto's baseball Maple Leafs opened their home season at Maple Leaf Stadium
Geo, Mario
5/9/1962
First scrubdown for city hall, City Hall gets its first wash since it opened in the summer of 1965
First scrubdown for city hall, City Hall gets its first wash since it opened in the summer of 1965
Spremo, Boris
10/2/1968
These workmen are having lunch in what will be the highest bar in Toronto when the 32-storey, $10 million Sutton Place apartment hotel is completed in(...)
These workmen are having lunch in what will be the highest bar in Toronto when the 32-storey, $10 million Sutton Place apartment hotel is completed in(...)
Spremo, Boris
3/16/1967
Campaigning in Ragtime. External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp kicked off his election campaign yesterday at a meet-the-people rally in North Toront(...)
Campaigning in Ragtime. External Affairs Minister Mitchell Sharp kicked off his election campaign yesterday at a meet-the-people rally in North Toront(...)
Barkley, Harold
9/26/1972