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crossing guard is their mayor. Mayor True Davidson holds up homemade cars so children can cross road to Secord school today. The 67-year-old borough m(...)
crossing guard is their mayor. Mayor True Davidson holds up homemade cars so children can cross road to Secord school today. The 67-year-old borough m(...)

crossing guard is their mayor. Mayor True Davidson holds up homemade cars so children can cross road to Secord school today. The 67-year-old borough m(...)

Date9/5/1968
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  • crossing guard is their mayor. Mayor True Davidson holds up homemade cars so children can cross road to Secord school today. The 67-year-old borough mayor put in 40-minute shift as volunteer school crossing guard, joining group of parents protesting withd
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Original Toronto Star caption: crossing guard is their mayor. Mayor True Davidson holds up homemade cars so children can cross road to Secord school today. The 67-year-old borough mayor put in 40-minute shift as volunteer school crossing guard, joining group of parents protesting withd
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      Crossing guard is their mayor. East Yok Mayor True Davidson holds up homemade sing to stop cars so children can cross road to Secord Public School Tod(...)
      Crossing guard is their mayor. East Yok Mayor True Davidson holds up homemade sing to stop cars so children can cross road to Secord Public School Tod(...)
      Davidson, True, 1901-1978
      9/1/1968
      True grip on the polluted Don. East York Mayor True Davidson holds high a piece of junk pulled Don River today as she helps Robert Hurlburt, president(...)
      True grip on the polluted Don. East York Mayor True Davidson holds high a piece of junk pulled Don River today as she helps Robert Hurlburt, president(...)
      Barkley, Harold
      7/8/1971
      True reviews the old guard. East York Mayor True Davidson, 71, wears period dress to review guard, also in the look of long ago, in Todmorden Mills Hi(...)
      True reviews the old guard. East York Mayor True Davidson, 71, wears period dress to review guard, also in the look of long ago, in Todmorden Mills Hi(...)
      Davidson, True, 1901-1978
      8/7/1972
      Crossing guards honored. Majorie Gordaneer, Metro's longest-serving school crossing guard with 28 years' service, proudly holds the award she received(...)
      Crossing guards honored. Majorie Gordaneer, Metro's longest-serving school crossing guard with 28 years' service, proudly holds the award she received(...)
      Regan, Paul
      10/21/1985
      Real traffic stoppers in Scarborough yesterday were Marjorie and Harry Gordaneer in their Santa Claus costumes. Mrs. Gordancer, who has been a crossing guard for 20 years and is president of the Metro school crossing guards' organization, has been handing out candy canes to youngsters at her crossing on Clonmore Dr. Husband Harry, who's an area supervisor with the borough's board of education, has been playing Santa at a number of schools this week.
      Real traffic stoppers in Scarborough yesterday were Marjorie and Harry Gordaneer in their Santa Claus costumes. Mrs. Gordancer, who has been a crossing guard for 20 years and is president of the Metro school crossing guards' organization, has been handing out candy canes to youngsters at her crossing on Clonmore Dr. Husband Harry, who's an area supervisor with the borough's board of education, has been playing Santa at a number of schools this week.
      Lennon, Frank
      12/22/1977
      East York: Best medicine for ailing True Davidson was her victory as the first mayor of the new Metro borough
      East York: Best medicine for ailing True Davidson was her victory as the first mayor of the new Metro borough
      Davidson, True, 1901-1978
      12/6/1966
      North York Mayor Mel Lastman (right), lawyer Barry Swadron (centre) and Alderman Jack Bedder hold a press conference on the case of Alderman John Knox, who has admitted he took a trip to the Bahamas on the $470 he received from the borough to study road m
      North York Mayor Mel Lastman (right), lawyer Barry Swadron (centre) and Alderman Jack Bedder hold a press conference on the case of Alderman John Knox, who has admitted he took a trip to the Bahamas on the $470 he received from the borough to study road m
      Lastman, Mel
      8/13/1973
      The new guard watches the old one, The new mayors of four Metro boroughs dropped in at City Hall today to watch the old guard in action
      The new guard watches the old one, The new mayors of four Metro boroughs dropped in at City Hall today to watch the old guard in action
      Bezant, Graham
      12/7/1972
      True is out for blood donors. East York Mayor True Davidson sticks a blood donor badge on fireman Douglas DeGernier at Red Cross headquarters on Jarvi(...)
      True is out for blood donors. East York Mayor True Davidson sticks a blood donor badge on fireman Douglas DeGernier at Red Cross headquarters on Jarvi(...)
      Davidson, True, 1901-1978
      12/22/1970
      The Mayor aids a little miss. Four-year-old Bonnie Little gets some welcome assistance with her hula costume from East York Mayor True Davidson. This (...)
      The Mayor aids a little miss. Four-year-old Bonnie Little gets some welcome assistance with her hula costume from East York Mayor True Davidson. This (...)
      Davidson, True, 1901-1978
      7/18/1969
      East York Mayor True Davidson tells Star forum on day care that high-priced staff and stiff government regulations are making day care centres so expe(...)
      East York Mayor True Davidson tells Star forum on day care that high-priced staff and stiff government regulations are making day care centres so expe(...)
      Davidson, True, 1901-1978
      1/11/1971
      A Girl with some questions, 3-year-old Denna Woodyatt, accepts an information pamphlet yesterday from East York Mayor True Davidson, who was officiall(...)
      A Girl with some questions, 3-year-old Denna Woodyatt, accepts an information pamphlet yesterday from East York Mayor True Davidson, who was officiall(...)
      Davidson, True, 1901-1978
      5/6/1969