Hidden faces of Toronto
An unnamed patient stares out the window of 999 Queen Street, now known as the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH).
“'It gets lonely, sometimes just playing with the cat', says an unemployed ex-convict as he stares bleakly out his window,” reads the Toronto Star caption printed with this photo.
It accompanied a story on the John Howard Society, which helps released prisoners to re-integrate into society.
A man with his cat panhandles on Yonge Street in 1991.
This image accompanied a 1978 Toronto Star story about Canadian women facing difficult life decisions.
Young protesters huddle under a blanket as part of a “sleep-in” and “starve-in” at City Hall in August, 1967.
The demonstration was part of a campaign to have Yorkville Avenue closed to traffic.
A couple of Leaf fans apparently did not want to be seen in Maple Leaf Gardens.
The Leafs had won only four of 26 games to date in the 1984/1985 season.