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- A recruiting sergeant seeks volunteers in Toronto - J. W. Geddes stands in an open touring car outside Toronto City Hall to persuade at least one more "good man…
A recruiting sergeant seeks volunteers in Toronto - J. W. Geddes stands in an open touring car outside Toronto City Hall to persuade at least one more "good man…
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Pin: Toronto City Hall
- Held by
- McCord Stewart Museum via McCord Stewart Museum (via Wikimedia Commons)
- Creator
- William James
- Dates
- 1916 (indexed as 1916)
- Level
- item (source: Image)
- Scope & content
- A recruiting sergeant seeks volunteers in Toronto - J. W. Geddes stands in an open touring car outside Toronto City Hall to persuade at least one more "good man" to leave the crowd and join up "For King and Country". Toronto's mayor Tommy Church (in a straw boater) and Captain Rev. J. D. Morring wait their turn to add the arguments of politics and religion.
- Location
- Toronto City Hall · landmark · confidence 60% · landmark:geonames · found as “toronto city hall”
- Subjects
- 1916 in Toronto; Canada in World War I in 1916; Photographs by William James; Thomas Langton Church; World War I home front in Canada; World War I recruitment in Canada
- Access & use
- Public domain Via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Recruiting_at_city_hall.JPG
- Harvested
- 2026-10-18T17:21:10Z · source datestamp n/a · commons
Digital objects at the source
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