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Riding an elephant is a big treat for youngsters - and their parents - visiting Safari, children's zoo in La Ronde amusement area of Expo. It's home o(...)
Riding an elephant is a big treat for youngsters - and their parents - visiting Safari, children's zoo in La Ronde amusement area of Expo. It's home o(...)

Riding an elephant is a big treat for youngsters - and their parents - visiting Safari, children's zoo in La Ronde amusement area of Expo. It's home o(...)

Date7/15/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Riding an elephant is a big treat for youngsters - and their parents - visiting Safari; children's zoo in La Ronde amusement area of Expo. It's home of Herman; the huge hippo who loves a jeep and is enamored of elephants.
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    GeographyProvince stateOntario
    GeographyCountryCanada
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    Photographs
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0004342F
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      Expo 67 (Montreal, Québec)
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      A maxi-ride for some mini-people, Dondi, a 13-year-old Indian elephant, serves as a unique, non-mechanical ride for youngsters visiting the Children's(...)
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      Canadian National Exhibition (Toronto, Ont.)
      8/27/1985
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      Eight Kennedys invade expo. Senator Robert Kennedy (bottom left) and three sons ard log ride in La Ronde amusement area of Expo as rs. Kennedy (centre(...)
      Kennedy, Robert F., 1925-1968
      7/6/1967
      Louise and George Tunstead, foster parents to more than 80 children in the past two years, find themselves the centre of a controversy because they want to offer a permanent home to youngsters
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      Geo, Mario
      3/31/1971
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      Expo 67 (Montreal, Québec)
      3/6/1967
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      Expo 67 (Montreal, Québec)
      4/22/1967
      Poster pals. Maple Leaf left-winger Stewart Gavin and Rahul Gupta, 8, check the Metro Children's Aid Society poster they appear on to help locate foster homes for ethnic youngsters
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      Gavin, Stewart, 1960-
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      Teenagers like their parents to share their interests, Andrew Croll, the father of five, discovered when he asked youngsters to rate his performance as a parent. Taking the hint, he's watching son Peter, 16, and daughter Cynthia, 15, carry through a sewing project. Recently divorced, Croll is providing all parenting for the family.
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      Mahler, John
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      Jacquet, Illionois
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      Expo 67 (Montreal, Québec)
      7/4/1967
      Skateboarding Is fun, but many youngsters and a few parents, too, found themselves in the emergency rooms of Metro's hospitals this summer with broken(...)
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      Bull, Ron
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      Parents oppose change at school, Parents of children at Ogden Public School, in the Spadina-Queen area, picket a Toronto Board of Education meeting la(...)
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      Combs, Erin
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