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Title: Red Cross and Telegram Staff preparing to send off Red Cross supplies
Description: "L to R. John Agnew, purchasing agent, and Roy Davey, of Ont. Red Cross with John Bassett Jr, publisher, and B.T. Richardson, editor of Telegram."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 25 December 1956
Identifier: CRS0080
Identifier (PID): yul:1127742

Title: President of the University of Toronto is photographed with some of the children of Oxford University faculty members
Description: "Right, Dr. H. J. Cody, president of the University of Toronto, is photographed with some of the 16 children of Oxford University faculty members who have come to the homes of U. of T. staff members."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 4 July 1940
Identifier: CRS0035
Identifier (PID): yul:1127574

Title: English boy passes time on the train by viewing magazine
Description: "One of the young English boys passes time on the train by calmly viewing magazine pictures of the war-bombing whose dangers sent him to Canada."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 4 July 1940
Identifier: CRS0021
Identifier (PID): yul:1127573

Title: Tony Psaila gives his mother a huge hug on her arrival at Toronto International Airport last night
Description: "Tony Psaila of Etobicoke gives his mother a huge hug on her arrival at Toronto International Airport last night. It was fifteen years since they had last seen each other. Mrs. Psaila was one of a group of 136 relatives of earlier immigrants from the George Cross island. They are here under a joint government plan to help ease overcrowding on the tiny Mediterranean isle. Welcoming Mrs. Psaila also is her daughter, Doris, who came over from Malta only recently."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 10 October 1964
Identifier: CRS0025
Identifier (PID): yul:1127572

Title: Refugees from Holland and Belgium arrive in London this morning after being bombed
Description: "Refugees from Holland and Belgium arrive in London this morning after being bombed. Associated Press photo shows: an elderly woman refugee being assisted along the platform at a London terminus this morning, May 17, when a train-load of refugees arrived. The ship in which a number of them travelled was bombed and machine-gunned by Nazi planes during their journey."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 4 June 1940
Identifier: CRS0048
Identifier (PID): yul:1127571

Title: America's gift to London children
Description: "America's gift to London children. Mrs. Abernathy, an American lady, has sent seven pairs of shoes and socks to seven little Londoners, innocent victims of German bombers. With each pair she sent a message saying: "God bess the little feet that wear these". Doreen Nicholls in Sun bonnet, made steady progress. Roy Keeble decided it was time to tackle the laces, Violet Patricia Wright, continued with her socks and Kenneth Agas was still a slow starter."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 4 January 1944
Identifier: CRS0095
Identifier (PID): yul:1127570

Title: War guests of the International Business Machine Co., Ltd., of Canada
Description: "These war guests are members of a party of 28 children, mothers and guardians who arrived here last night as guests of the International Business Machine Co., Ltd., of Canada. Through the offer of Thomas J. Watson, president of the International Business Machine Corporation of New York, the group, consisting of the families of representatives of the International Time Recording Co. of Great Britain, a subsidiary of the U.S. firm, was brought to Canada for the duration of the war at the expense of the company. Upper left, Margaret Lemond, aged 10, of London: upper centre, Mrs. E. M. Kelk, of Birmingham, and her two daughters, Panela, aged 13 (left), and Betty, aged nine; upper right, Joan Pathie, aged five, of Exeter; lower left, five boys ranging in age from three to six years; lower right, Godfrey Spencer, aged eight (left), and Anthony Spencer, aged six. The two brothers, from Cheswick, near London, travelled with their aunt, Mrs. G. A. Butler, while their mother and father remained in England."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 6 July 1940
Identifier: CRS0092
Identifier (PID): yul:1127569

Title: Little miss being pacified by her brother
Description: "It was heart-breaking for this little miss, being pacified by her brother, to leave her home overseas, but she was too young to realize she was being sent to this side of the Atlantic for safety. One of the hungreds of children being sent from the British Isles, she is Dilys Winn, aged nine months, who was born in Dublin, with her brother Roddy, aged two years. They were en route to this side of the Atlantic with their mother. Their father is in the British army."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 3 July 1940
Identifier: CRS0097
Identifier (PID): yul:1127568

Title: Children of Oxford University dons arrive in Connecticut
Description: "These smiling, waving children, sons and daughters of Oxford University dons, are part of the first group of refugees to be moved out as a unit from bomb-threatened England. They're shown stepping down from a train July 24 at New Haven, Conn., after a trip from Montreal. They came across under the auspices of Yale University and Swarthmore College."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 16 July 1940
Identifier: CRS0099
Identifier (PID): yul:1127567

Title: Torpedoed--and still smiling
Description: "These British children, nearing a British port Sept. 1, were among 320 youngsters bound for Canada when their refugee ship was torpedoed. The British gave no indication of when or where the unidentified vessel was hit, but said it remained afloat. As they took to life-boats, the British said, they sang "Oh Johnnie, Oh Johnnie" and "Roll Out the Barrel." The only casualty among 875 persons aboard, including a crew of 275, was the vessel's purser."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 10 September 1940
Identifier: CRS0101
Identifier (PID): yul:1127566

Title: At England's first national evacuation camp for children
Description: "England--Children pictured in one of the girls' dormitories at Britain's first national evacuation camp for children evacuated from London. The camp is situated in an isolated spot. Sheltered by a wood from possible detection by enemy bombers."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 7 December 1939
Identifier: CRS0105
Identifier (PID): yul:1127565

Title: U-Boat torpedoes "seavacuee" children but all are safe
Description: "A total of 320 British children on their way to Canada, were torpedoed by a U-Boat. They did not panic, but walked quietly to the boats with life-jackets and overcoats over their pyjamas, and everyone was saved. Associated Press Photo Shows: despite their ordeal the children came ashore laughing and these little Britons thought it great fun to be blankey belles."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 9 October 1940
Identifier: CRS0103
Identifier (PID): yul:1127564

Title: Evacuation of London children
Description: "London--London authorities are continuing the evacuation of children from the city limits to get them away from the indiscriminate shelling by the Nazi robot bombs. Recently hundreds left for safer areas in the midlands and north England. Carrying parcels, little evacuees bound for the country walk toward their train."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 12 July 1944
Identifier: CRS0107
Identifier (PID): yul:1127563

Title: War guest visiting Ellis Island
Description: "Nine-year-old Michael Storrie, of Bedford, England, gazes with interest at his surroundings as he passes New York's Ellis Island. He's a war guest."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 11 February 1941
Identifier: CRS0109
Identifier (PID): yul:1127562

Title: Little tot sees New York skyscrapers
Description: ""Oh," was all this little tot could say when she stepped off a ship at Jersey City and saw for the first time the great skyscrapers of New York across the river. She came across the Atlantic with her mother, en route to San Francisco."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 12 February 1941
Identifier: CRS0111
Identifier (PID): yul:1127561

Title: So this is New York
Description: "A young English war guest stoops for his first view."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 30 July 1940
Identifier: CRS0113
Identifier (PID): yul:1127560

Title: Refugees from Poland
Description: "Jewish refugees from Poland wait at the railway station at Nachod, Czechoslovakia, on the frontier between that country and Poland. From Nachod they will be taken to Bratislava and from there proceed to Unrra camps in the United States zone of Austria. At a reception centre at Nachod, Polish jews crossing the frontier receive supplementary food and medical attention from the American Joint Distribution Committee."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 6 August 1946
Identifier: CRS0115
Identifier (PID): yul:1127558

Title: A new chance for homeless refugees
Description: "A North African Port--Some of a large group of refugees, left homeless by the German advance through Europe, check out at a North African port before boarding a ship, which will take them to Palestine. There, they will be given the opportunity to establish themselves as agricultural settlers."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 12 January 1944
Identifier: CRS0119
Identifier (PID): yul:1127557

Title: Reversing the influx of Jews from European countries to Palestine
Description: "Reversing the influx of Jews from European countries to Palestine, nearly 400 Polish and Austrian refugees of up to nine years ago are returning to their homelands from Palestine, to which they had fled to escape the Nazis. Here a group is shown, in a British army truck, on their way from Jerusalem as their home-going journey starts."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 10 March 1947
Identifier: CRS0123
Identifier (PID): yul:1127555

Title: A young refugee sleeps
Description: "This boy, a refugee from his war-torn homeland, slumbers along a highway while his mother, (partly hidden by tree) watches for the return of German bombing planes which drove them from their home in the war zone."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 27 May 1940
Identifier: CRS0125
Identifier (PID): yul:1127554

Title: No music in their hearts
Description: "This boy, according to British caption, is shown carrying his accordion and leading his sister as they arrived in London May 17 with a train load of other refugees from Belgium and Holland."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 27 May 1940
Identifier: CRS0127
Identifier (PID): yul:1127553

Title: Children of War
Description: "A French Marine is shown above as he helped one youngster eat at Dunkerque, the French censor said. The children were abandoned in the flight by civilians from Flanders. After receiving nourishment the children were evacuated, but the censor did not say where."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 13 June 1940
Identifier: CRS0129
Identifier (PID): yul:1127552

Title: Refugees flee through war-scarred Louvain
Description: "The British caption on this picture said it shows the evacuation of a wounded man on a stretcher on which he is being wheeled through Louvain, the little Belgian town which was the site of bitter fighting shortly after this picture was made. Note damaged building in the background."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 27 May 1940
Identifier: CRS0131
Identifier (PID): yul:1127551

Title: Refugees Held Aboard Ship
Description: "These European Refugees, denied entry to the United States at New York and to Mexico at Vera Cruz, lined the rail of the Portuguese steamer Quanza and talked to relatives on the pier when the ship stopped to refuel at Norfolk, VA., Sept. 11. One passenger, a German, was captured by an army guard after diving overboard in Hampton Roads."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 12 September 1940
Identifier: CRS0133
Identifier (PID): yul:1127550

Title: Red Cross supplies being loaded on plane
Description: "Scene as cartons flow up endless belt of boarding ramp."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 371
Date: 25 December 1956
Identifier: CRS0082
Identifier (PID): yul:1127549

Title: TCA workers load parcels into aircraft which will means so much to thousands of refugee children
Description: "Inside the aircraft, TCA workers load the parcels which will means so much to thousands of refugee children. Cartons -- 280 of them -- contain more than 5,000 bags filled with toys, games, notebooks, kerchieves, candy, and nuts."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 21 December 1956
Identifier: CRS0078
Identifier (PID): yul:1127547

Title: Ann Ryan writing a letter home
Description: Eleven-year-old Ann Ryan, one of twelve English school children whose temporary new Canadian home is a large house on Dunvegan road, turned over to them by Mr. and Mrs. Geoffrey Beatty, had just begun a letter home when The Telegram photographer happened along. Ann said she didn't mind if his camera looked over her pig-tailed shoulder, and this is what it saw.
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 12 July 1940
Identifier: CRS0090
Identifier (PID): yul:1127546

Title: Austrian couple and their son with Toronto host
Description: "Top -- Mr. and Mrs Eliaz Kamerling of Vienna and their son, Heinz, with (back to camera) their Toronto host, B. Forer."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 9 August 1944
Identifier: CRS0076
Identifier (PID): yul:1127545

Title: French couple and their daughters
Description: "Below -- Mr. and Mrs. G. Elefant, French couple, and their daughters, Madelene, 5, and Alice, 2."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 9 August 1944
Identifier: CRS0074
Identifier (PID): yul:1127544

Title: Reay, Mrs. Buckingham and Ian
Description: "Wife of an English Presbyterian minister, Mrs. William Buckingham, of Worthing, Sussex, and her two sons, ten-year-old Reay and Ian, seve, stayed over in Toronto to-day as guests of United Church of Canada officials. They are en route to Moose Jaw, where they will live "for the duration" with Mrs. Buckingham's uncle, T. D. Mackay. "We are very glad to be away from air raids," Mrs. Buckingham said. "It wasn't so bad in Sussex, although we went through several, but my boy Reay was at school on the Isle of Wight and it was terrible there, due to the German plans trying to bomb Portsmouth." "We're looking forward to Canada," Reay interjected in precise English accents. "It's our first visit to Moose Jaw. Of course we've been East." "To Eastern Canada?" "Oh, no!" the little boy answered. "Malaya, you know, in the East." "Did Ian go to Malaya, too?" "He was born there," Reay said, "so he really couldn't go, if you know what I mean." Their father, they said, was in the Reserve."
Type: photoprint
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001/371
Date: 9 July 1940
Identifier: CRS0072
Identifier (PID): yul:1127543