Human Interest

Sicilian grandmother with her grandson
Andrew Stawicki/Toronto Star
[June] 1994

This photo of a grandson hugging his delighted grandmother in Sicily won Toronto Star photographer Andrew Stawicki a National Newspaper Award. 

Elderly woman
Peter Power/Toronto Star
November 1996

Toronto Star photographer Peter Power won a National Newspaper Award for this double exposure photo.

The photo was used to illustrate a story about the emotional abuse of elderly people who are abandoned at hospital emergency departments by their families.

Birth
Keith Beaty/Toronto Star
January 7, 1986

Keith Beaty’s image of a mother laughing joyously after giving birth to her son at Women’s College Hospital was photographed for a Toronto Star feature story, A Day In The Life of Toronto. It won a National Newspaper Award for a feature photo. 

Dionne Quintuplets
Associated Press
May 29, 1934

In Corbeil, Ontario, twenty-four year old, Olivia Dionne, rests beside her new-born quintuplets – the first known to survive infancy.

The Toronto Star acquired exclusive rights to photos of the Dionne Quintuplets in Canada. The Star’s Fred Davis was hired as the Dionne quintuplets’ official photographer, a position he held for 5 years. 

Dionne Quintuplets, age 3
Fred Davis (b. ca. 1896 – 1963)
May 28, 1937

The Dionne quintuplets, Emilie, left, Yvonne, Cecile, Annette and Marie pose for the camera on third birthday.

Their lives were covered extensively in the press.

Looking for Daddy
Reg Innell/Toronto Star
1967

A two year old girl looks for her father as she wanders amongst the rows of seated police graduates at the Metropolitan Police College graduation ceremony.

This endearing photo won Toronto Star photographer Reg Innell a National Newspaper Award.

Police Funeral in Moncton, New Brunswick
Don Dutton/Toronto Star
December 18, 1974

A grief-stricken boy watches the casket of his father, murdered police Corporal Aurele Bourgeois, as pallbearers proceed down a Moncton street in 1974. 

Using a camera with a telephoto lens, Don Dutton shot this National Newspaper Award winning photo from the flat roof of a store across the street from the funeral.

Beatles fans held back by Toronto police
Ted Dinsmore (1922 – 2001) /Toronto Star
[1965]

Star photographer and reporter Ted Dinsmore caught Toronto police straining to hold back fans from entering the Beatles’ hotel.

Terry Fox
Boris Spremo/Toronto Star
July 30, 1980

Terry Fox began his Marathon of Hope run across Canada in St. John’s, Newfoundland to raise awareness and money for cancer research. Canadians across the land were stirred by his courage.

While his run ended in Thunder Bay, Ontario after it was discovered that cancer had spread to his lungs, the Terry Fox Run continues to be held annually across Canada and around the world raising funds for cancer research.