What it says
Extracted pages from the 1955 Might's Greater Toronto city directory naming Gordon F. Ponceby in a Metropolitan Motors listing and a street-directory entry.
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Ref: Toronto City Directory Pages for Gordon F. Ponceby, 1955
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Toronto City Directory Pages for Gordon F. Ponceby, 1955
Extracted pages from the 1955 Might's Greater Toronto city directory naming Gordon F. Ponceby in a Metropolitan Motors listing and a street-directory entry.
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What it says
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- principal name
- Gordon F. Ponceby
- principal name as recorded
- Gordon F Ponceby
- directory year
- 1955
- business name as recorded
- Metropolitan Motors Ltd
- business role as recorded
- sec-treas
- business president as recorded
- S E Coon
- business type as recorded
- motor sales
- business address as recorded
- 895 Millwood rd (Leas)
- residence name as recorded
- Ponceby Gordon
- residence as recorded
- 287 Airdrie rd
- residence place as recorded
- Leaside, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- telephone as recorded
- HU 1-0660
- Principal Name
- Gordon F. Ponceby
- Principal Name As Recorded
- Gordon F Ponceby
- Directory Year
- 1955
- Business Name As Recorded
- Metropolitan Motors Ltd
- Business Role As Recorded
- sec-treas
- Business President As Recorded
- S E Coon
- Business Type As Recorded
- motor sales
- Business Address As Recorded
- 895 Millwood rd (Leas)
- Residence Name As Recorded
- Ponceby Gordon
- Residence As Recorded
- 287 Airdrie rd
- Residence Place As Recorded
- Leaside, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Telephone As Recorded
- HU 1-0660
Artifact inspection
Record file
Reading notes
Things to be careful about
- The business-listing page reads "Metropolitan Motors Ltd S E Coon pres, Gordon F Ponceby sec-treas motor sales 895 Millwood rd (Leas)."
- The street-directory page under Airdrie Rd lists "287 Ponceby Gordon HU 1-0660."
- This is the first Toronto directory hit found in the 1955-1960 public directory pass; no separate alphabetical Ponceby resident entry was found in the 1955 OCR text.
Place
Where this record belongs
- city
- Toronto
- province
- Ontario
- country
- Canada
- place
- Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Details
Record details
- repository
- Toronto Public Library / Internet Archive
- title
- Might's Greater Toronto city directory, 1955
- archive identifier
- torontocitydirectory1955
- archive url
- https://archive.org/details/torontocitydirectory1955
- source page urls
- https://archive.org/details/torontocitydirectory1955/page/n1036/mode/1up
- https://archive.org/details/torontocitydirectory1955/page/n1627/mode/1up
- page image urls
- https://archive.org/download/torontocitydirectory1955/page/n1036_w2000.jpg
- https://archive.org/download/torontocitydirectory1955/page/n1627_w2000.jpg
- archive leafs
- n1036
- n1627
- extracted page types
- business/classified listing
- street directory
- pages
- 2
- accessed
- 24 April 2026
Notes
Research notes
- No citation block
- Toronto Public Library / Internet Archive URLs and access details are captured in document_details rather than in a stripped repository citation page.
- Accepted by the user on 4 June 2026 for Gordon F. Ponceby's Toronto/Leaside residence, telephone, employment, business-role, and business-address facts only.
- The related residence event remains proposed; do not update canonical person relationships from this approval alone.
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