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Elvis Presley performs at Maple Leaf Gardens in 1957 during his first visit to Canada. 23,000 screaming fans watched the concert.

This silhouette of former Prime Minister John Diefenbaker working on his memoires in the Barbados, earned Boris Spremo a National Newspaper Award.

Toronto Star photographer Fred Ross captured this shot of John Lennon and Yoko Ono as they spent a night at the King Edward Sheraton Hotel in Toronto.

Marshall McLuhan reads in his office at St. Michael's College, University of Toronto. The world-renowned Canadian communications theorist is famous for his dictum “the medium is the message.”

Mother Teresa, founder of the Missionaries of Charity, was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979. That same year Toronto Star photographer Bob Olsen won the Mongolian Press Association Award of Merit for this portrait of Mother Teresa praying in…

Award-winning Toronto Star photographer Dick Darrell captured Oscar Peterson entertaining at the Town Tavern in Toronto. Peterson is considered one of the greatest jazz pianists of all time.