Detail
Object Type: photograph
Creator: TUROFSKY
Date: 1948
Medium: gelatin silver print with editing marks
Dimensions: approximately: 8 x 10 inches; 20.32 x 25.4 cm
Accession Number: NYT.2016.0460.0005
Inscriptions:
Recto, [no inscription]; Verso, handwritten: 13-859-L [boxed and struck through]; handwritten: 14-485-L-25-C [circled]; handwritten: Mag. Px 25 / 2 cols.; stamped: R[E]TURN TO TIMES / [DATE RECEIVED] / JUL 19 1948 / [IN PICT]URE FI[L]ES / [PHOT]O LIB[R]ARY; printed: [newsprint adhered with paste] Britons for Canada / The 'Ontario Plan' of immigration by air / helped to solve two population problems. / By CHARLES J. LAZARUS / TORONTO. / SOME weeks ago, a waiter / at a London hotel left / his job at noon on Satur- / day and a few hours later / boarded the transatlantic plane / at Prestwick, Scotland. Just / over twenty-four hours later, / he landed at Malton Airport / near Toronto, Ontario, was / checked in by immigration / and customs officials, and ap- / plied that same day--Sunday / --for a waiter's job at a To- / ronto hotel. He started to / work on Monday morning. / The immigration of this / young man without so much / as an hour's loss of work is an / indication of how a practical, / streamlined immigration pol- / icy, such as that of the Prov- / ince of Ontario, can work. / The Ontario project [loss] / Let us see why Ontario [loss]; stamped: Photo by / TUROFSKY / TORONTO; printed: [newsprint adhered with paste] Dana Porter, Ontario Cabinet member, welcomes British arrivals.; handwritten: Mag [circled]; stamped and handwritten: JUL 18 1948; stamped: N [obscured] TIMES / MAGAZINE / SIZE 3 3/4 x 2 7/8; handwritten: P-25
