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Stock exchange's Ralph Longbotham. Retiring this week after 48 years.
Stock exchange's Ralph Longbotham. Retiring this week after 48 years.

Stock exchange's Ralph Longbotham. Retiring this week after 48 years.

Date3/2/1977
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      ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0129560F
      New chairman of the Toronto Stock Exchange is 42-year-old Donald G. Lawson, shown here looking over the exchanges's trading floor, Lawson, president of the brokerage firm of Moss, Lawson, president of the brokerage firm of Moss, Lawson and Co., succeeds W.H.A. Thorburn, Appointed governor was Dr. O.M. Solandt, retiring chancellor, University of Toronto.
      New chairman of the Toronto Stock Exchange is 42-year-old Donald G. Lawson, shown here looking over the exchanges's trading floor, Lawson, president of the brokerage firm of Moss, Lawson, president of the brokerage firm of Moss, Lawson and Co., succeeds W.H.A. Thorburn, Appointed governor was Dr. O.M. Solandt, retiring chancellor, University of Toronto.
      Bull, Ron
      5/27/1971
      Youthful Chris Barron is chairman of the Toronto Stock Exchange's Conference on Economics and Growth which will be held May 27 and 28. It will attract(...)
      Youthful Chris Barron is chairman of the Toronto Stock Exchange's Conference on Economics and Growth which will be held May 27 and 28. It will attract(...)
      Barrow, John
      5/8/1970
      Market hits new high: Maureen Forrester tested the acoustics yesterday in the Toronto Stock Exchange's new $25-million headquarters
      Market hits new high: Maureen Forrester tested the acoustics yesterday in the Toronto Stock Exchange's new $25-million headquarters
      Beaty, Keith
      5/5/1983
      Veteran of two world wars, 89-year-old Elizabeth Banson exchanges stories with Defence Minister Barney Danson after marching in 52nd annual Warrior's Day Parade at CNE
      Veteran of two world wars, 89-year-old Elizabeth Banson exchanges stories with Defence Minister Barney Danson after marching in 52nd annual Warrior's Day Parade at CNE
      Danson, Barnett
      8/20/1977
      Carl Christie: Equity trading manager for Canarim investment Corp. and chairman of the Professional Traders Association represents about 450 people, including those working on the Toronto exchange's trading floor. He is critical of the exchange's handling of recent layoffs: That liaison we had with the upstairs (management) has pretty well been completely obliterated.
      Carl Christie: Equity trading manager for Canarim investment Corp. and chairman of the Professional Traders Association represents about 450 people, including those working on the Toronto exchange's trading floor. He is critical of the exchange's handling of recent layoffs: That liaison we had with the upstairs (management) has pretty well been completely obliterated.
      Bock, Tony
      1/22/1988
      Touching moment: Michigan priest George Zabelka, a 30-year-old chaplain when the bomb dropped in 1945, exchanges greetings with Setsuko Thurlow, who was 13 and lucky to escape
      Touching moment: Michigan priest George Zabelka, a 30-year-old chaplain when the bomb dropped in 1945, exchanges greetings with Setsuko Thurlow, who was 13 and lucky to escape
      Russell, Jim
      7/9/1985
      Looking more fit than most of the brokers plungers - his age - Bill Townsend, 65 retired this week as a key executive of the Toronto Stock Exchange, where he started as a youngster in the boom year of 1928
      Looking more fit than most of the brokers plungers - his age - Bill Townsend, 65 retired this week as a key executive of the Toronto Stock Exchange, where he started as a youngster in the boom year of 1928
      Barkley, Harold
      5/29/1975
      Eighteen years ago Mrs. Anne Grossman, above, took over the newsstand on Bay St., just south of the stock exchange and became the first woman news ven(...)
      Eighteen years ago Mrs. Anne Grossman, above, took over the newsstand on Bay St., just south of the stock exchange and became the first woman news ven(...)
      Bull, Ron
      12/7/1973
      This is the way stock exchange floor traders might operate in two or three years, although they wouldn't be floor traders. Matt Ardron and Anne Marie (...)
      This is the way stock exchange floor traders might operate in two or three years, although they wouldn't be floor traders. Matt Ardron and Anne Marie (...)
      Lennon, Frank
      6/21/1974
      Ekaterina Furtseva is first lady of Soviet politics and seeks more Canadian cultural exchanges with Russia
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      Bezant, Graham
      8/1/1967
      Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau exchanges a word with Harold Parks, president of the Hamilton and District Cerebral Palsy Parents Council, as they enter fund-raising dinner for handicapped
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      Lennon, Frank
      1/19/1978
      At loggerheads: In 1976, when Jerry McAfee, left, headed Gulf Canada and John Turner was finance minister, heated exchanges between government and the oil industry were frequent
      At loggerheads: In 1976, when Jerry McAfee, left, headed Gulf Canada and John Turner was finance minister, heated exchanges between government and the oil industry were frequent
      Goode, Jeff
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