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Making his point: Bryan Dyck, a consumer advocate who's written an easy guide to the new metric system, dresses with flash to entertain people while he helps them make changeover.
Making his point: Bryan Dyck, a consumer advocate who's written an easy guide to the new metric system, dresses with flash to entertain people while he helps them make changeover.

Making his point: Bryan Dyck, a consumer advocate who's written an easy guide to the new metric system, dresses with flash to entertain people while he helps them make changeover.

Date3/16/1982
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  • Making his point: Bryan Dyck, a consumer advocate who's written an easy guide to the new metric system, dresses with flash to entertain people while he helps them make changeover.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
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Cooper, David
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Robert Dyck, Book centre director, Serving Third World's hunger for knowledge
Robert Dyck, Book centre director, Serving Third World's hunger for knowledge
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The right cuts: John Lutner's book, Meat Trade Secrets Exposed, helps the consumer become a knowledgeable shopper in the meat department.
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Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
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Frank Symons. We'll be metric by 1980
Frank Symons. We'll be metric by 1980
Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
1/23/1975
Floyd Clark records weather data. In April he'll have to switch to metric system
Floyd Clark records weather data. In April he'll have to switch to metric system
Griffin, Doug
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Scale maker outweighed Metric mayhem gave him grief
Scale maker outweighed Metric mayhem gave him grief
Beaty, Keith
n.d.
Talmage Stone: The 87-year-old president of the Forfar Diary co-op was so cheesed off by mandatory metric he wrote a firm but polite letter of intent - that he had no intention of selling cheddar by the litre - to Andre Ouellet
Talmage Stone: The 87-year-old president of the Forfar Diary co-op was so cheesed off by mandatory metric he wrote a firm but polite letter of intent - that he had no intention of selling cheddar by the litre - to Andre Ouellet
Loek, Dick
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Eye on training: Dan Sullivan, who provides strategic planning for entrepreneurs, is caught here in the flash from one of his training slides.
Eye on training: Dan Sullivan, who provides strategic planning for entrepreneurs, is caught here in the flash from one of his training slides.
Toronto Star (Firm)
9/9/1990
A Boa constrictor named Reuben, held by owner Bruce McBride, entertains Grade 5 pupils at Ellesmere Public School yesterday
A Boa constrictor named Reuben, held by owner Bruce McBride, entertains Grade 5 pupils at Ellesmere Public School yesterday
Barkley, Harold
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Paul Higgins, left, entertains guests Mayor Clark Mason of Ajax and Rita Law of Pickering in the dining room of his railway car
Paul Higgins, left, entertains guests Mayor Clark Mason of Ajax and Rita Law of Pickering in the dining room of his railway car
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St. Nick? Keith Horton, president of the Christmas tree growers' association, donned a hat and pipe in the St. Nick tradition to entertain visitors at his tree farm in Vandorf, Ont., yesterday. At right, Gordon Gay with dogs Kashmir and Merlin head back to the car with their freshly cut tree. The farm is open daily.
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