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His town: Thanks in part to Victor Lee's vision, Chinese businesses, such as herbalists, restaurants, grocery stores, even a fashion designer, line Gerrard St
His town: Thanks in part to Victor Lee's vision, Chinese businesses, such as herbalists, restaurants, grocery stores, even a fashion designer, line Gerrard St

His town: Thanks in part to Victor Lee's vision, Chinese businesses, such as herbalists, restaurants, grocery stores, even a fashion designer, line Gerrard St

Date2/27/1992
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  • His town: Thanks in part to Victor Lee's vision, Chinese businesses, such as herbalists, restaurants, grocery stores, even a fashion designer, line Gerrard St
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      ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0129332F
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      Electronic Pages: Victor Garcia filled his mainframe computer with information about businesses from Metro area Yellow Pages. His operators use the information to telll callers about goods and services near their homes.
      Electronic Pages: Victor Garcia filled his mainframe computer with information about businesses from Metro area Yellow Pages. His operators use the information to telll callers about goods and services near their homes.
      Beaty, Keith
      11/17/1986
      Ways to cheat: Geoffrey Hale, policy director for the Canadian Organization of Small Businesses, says store owners can evade the tax man by ringing up no sale and pocketing the cash
      Ways to cheat: Geoffrey Hale, policy director for the Canadian Organization of Small Businesses, says store owners can evade the tax man by ringing up no sale and pocketing the cash
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      3/19/1982
      Chef: Toronto is blessed with fine restaurants and even finer chefs, but one of the newest stirring pots and excitement around town is young Mark McEwan, executive chef at the Sutton Place Hotel
      Chef: Toronto is blessed with fine restaurants and even finer chefs, but one of the newest stirring pots and excitement around town is young Mark McEwan, executive chef at the Sutton Place Hotel
      Bull, Ron
      1/19/1984
      Spicy strip: Gerrard St. east of Greenwood Ave. is Toronto's Little India. Naaz cinema (above) is focal point for 43 shops and restaurants selling Asi(...)
      Spicy strip: Gerrard St. east of Greenwood Ave. is Toronto's Little India. Naaz cinema (above) is focal point for 43 shops and restaurants selling Asi(...)
      Combs, Erin
      5/20/1980
      Spicy strip: Gerrard St. east of Greenwood Ave. is Toronto's Little India. Naaz cinema (above) is focal point for 43 shops and restaurants selling Asi(...)
      Spicy strip: Gerrard St. east of Greenwood Ave. is Toronto's Little India. Naaz cinema (above) is focal point for 43 shops and restaurants selling Asi(...)
      Combs, Erin
      5/9/1980
      Paul Kikot, agricultural inspector for the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, spends part of each day in Metro supermaket and grocery stores
      Paul Kikot, agricultural inspector for the Department of Consumer and Corporate Affairs, spends part of each day in Metro supermaket and grocery stores
      Lennon, Frank
      4/21/1971
      Representing Businesses hurt by the postal strike, about 75 pickets march outside the Royal York Hotel yesterday, across Front St. from striking postal workers and sympathizers. [Incomplete]
      Representing Businesses hurt by the postal strike, about 75 pickets march outside the Royal York Hotel yesterday, across Front St. from striking postal workers and sympathizers. [Incomplete]
      Lennon, Frank
      10/28/1975
      Small businesses like The Golden Barber on Bathurst St
      Small businesses like The Golden Barber on Bathurst St
      Slaughter, Mike
      7/12/1983
      Show of strength: Hakan Colting, owner of Rent-an-Inflatable Inc., hoists an inflatable pickup truck to show off his company's product. Colting's firm, which operates out of his Newmarket home, supplies businesses with inflatables for use as advertisements.
      Show of strength: Hakan Colting, owner of Rent-an-Inflatable Inc., hoists an inflatable pickup truck to show off his company's product. Colting's firm, which operates out of his Newmarket home, supplies businesses with inflatables for use as advertisements.
      Russell, Jim
      6/7/1988
      Springing into sprouts, Bean sprouts have emerged from Chinese restaurants as Metro's food tastes bud
      Springing into sprouts, Bean sprouts have emerged from Chinese restaurants as Metro's food tastes bud
      Combs, Erin
      3/17/1981
      Financial clout: Jean-Jacques Blais' department spends $10 million a day and the minister isn't blase about the service his source development fund will supply for Canadian businesses
      Financial clout: Jean-Jacques Blais' department spends $10 million a day and the minister isn't blase about the service his source development fund will supply for Canadian businesses
      Blais, Jean Jaques
      1/5/1978
      Bob Gibson: President of Micromedia Ltd. says his firm can offer personal service to small businesses seeking information.
      Bob Gibson: President of Micromedia Ltd. says his firm can offer personal service to small businesses seeking information.
      Beaty, Keith
      10/1/1985