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 country were stirred by his courage. Tragically, his run ended in Thunder Bay, Ontario after…
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…