Toronto families
John Herbert Mason Family
Photographer unknown
ca. 1900
John Herbert Mason was one of the founding members of the Canada Permanent Building and Savings Society, one of Canada's first mortgage companies.
His family lived in a mansion on the south-east corner of Sherbourne Street and Wellesley Street East.
Family outing
Charles A. Williams, 1897-1962
1915
The group pictured on an outing to the Theatorium on Lakeshore Boulevard is believed to be the family of photographer, Charles A. Williams.
Melamed family
Photographer unknown
ca. 1920
Morris Melamed, proprietor of the Ontario Dry Goods & Dresses Co., stands in front of his Spadina Street shop with his two daughters.
Mother cycles with daughter
Dick Darrell/Toronto Star
June 5, 1972
Gelatin silver print
Family prefers cycling to driving
Graham Bezant/Toronto Star
July 14, 1972
Gelatin silver print
Kerry Burrows rides to the market with her daughter in 1972.
That same year, the Bacon family enjoys a bike ride near their home on Collier Street.
Family strolling in Little Italy
Doug Griffin/Toronto Star
April 19, 1969
Gelatin silver print
Giovanni Bonomo, who came to Canada from Sicily, strolls by shops in Little Italy with his wife Maria and three of their five children, in 1969.
Wood family
Norman James/Toronto Star
February 13, 1970
Gelatin silver print
Andrew Wood, a construction worker from London, Ontario, stands with five of his seven children in the kitchen of their home in the north end of Toronto.
The family was on the Ontario Housing Corporations' waiting list for subsidized housing for over a year.
Lewis family
Ron Bull/Toronto Star
May 27, 1971
Gelatin silver print
The Lewis family sits with two puppies on the porch of their Weston family home in 1971.
Father and son
Bob Olsen/Toronto Star
September 2, 1970
Gelatin silver print
Father and daughter
Boris Spremo/Toronto Star
August 4, 1977
Gelatin silver print
Father and daughters
Mike Slaughter/Toronto Star
April 2, 1988
Gelatin silver print
In 1977, Toronto brain surgeon
Dr. Harley Smyth holds his 2-year-old daughter Anna who was born with
Down Syndrome.
In 1988, Louverture Remy takes his 9-year-old quadruplet daughters,
Laura, Linda, Lisa and Layla, for a walk.
Johnny Ciavillani and his son Mario
enjoy the sights on St. Clair Avenue,
near Dufferin Street, in 1970.
Saved from a fire
Dave Norris/Toronto Star
May 9, 1972
Gelatin silver print
Eight-year-old Laurie Atkinson, smiling at right, woke her family when a fire broke out in their Dovercourt Road apartment building in 1972.
Family plays chess
Boris Spremo/Toronto Star
June 10, 1975
Gelatin silver print
In 1975, Nhi Gould, wife of CTV vice-president Tom Gould, is reunited with her two sisters and their families who fled the repressive Communist regime in Vietnam.