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'Big Daddy' Fred Gardiner says Metro must expand
'Big Daddy' Fred Gardiner says Metro must expand

'Big Daddy' Fred Gardiner says Metro must expand

Date10/9/1969
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  • 'Big Daddy' Fred Gardiner says Metro must expand
  • 'Big Daddy' Fred Gardiner says Metro must expand. Metropolitan Toronto would strangle if its present boundaries were frozen. Its future demands that it expand to the north and the east. So declares Frederick Gardiner (right) the former Metro chairman; in an article writtn expressly for The Star. 'Big Daddy' Gardiner envisons a Metro considerably more than twice as big in area as the present one.
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Original Toronto Star caption: 'Big Daddy' Fred Gardiner says Metro must expand. Metropolitan Toronto would strangle if its present boundaries were frozen. Its future demands that it expand to the north and the east. So declares Frederick Gardiner (right) the former Metro chairman; in an article writtn expressly for The Star. 'Big Daddy' Gardiner envisons a Metro considerably more than twice as big in area as the present one.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0049203F
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      Big Daddy holds baby. Metro Chairman Fred Gardiner (holding Mary Ann) turns over keys to car, presented him by Downtown Business Men's Association to (...)
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      Winning smiles: Sharing the spoils of the first Frederick Big Daddy Gardiner award for community service are Johnny Lombardi, right, founder of CHIN Radio, Fern Alexander, Metro's first woman constable and Bob Rumball, who accepted for former heavyweight wrestling champ Whipper Billy Watson
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      Metro chairman Gardiner and Mrs. Marie Curtis. Big Daddy pounded the table and demanded proof of costly blunders
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      Fred Gardiner's position on Metro growth: big is good, bigger is better
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      Clark Muirhead argues that if Metro Toronto is permitted to expand unchecked it will produce many of the grave problems now facing big U
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      Dinsmore, Ted
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      Fred Gardiner, first Metro chairman, flashes famed oratorical form as he speaks to members of the Eaton Business Club at the Board of Trade building yesterday
      Fred Gardiner, first Metro chairman, flashes famed oratorical form as he speaks to members of the Eaton Business Club at the Board of Trade building yesterday
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