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Extracted pages from the 1957 Might's Greater Toronto city directory naming Gordon F. Ponceby and listing his Beechwood Avenue residence.
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Ref: Toronto City Directory Pages for Gordon F. Ponceby, 1957
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Toronto City Directory Pages for Gordon F. Ponceby, 1957
Extracted pages from the 1957 Might's Greater Toronto city directory naming Gordon F. Ponceby and listing his Beechwood Avenue residence.
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- principal name
- Gordon F. Ponceby
- principal name as recorded
- Gordon F Ponceby
- directory year
- 1957
- residence entry as recorded
- Ponceby Gordon F h 137 Beechwood av (Nth Y)
- residence as recorded
- 137 Beechwood av
- residence place as recorded
- North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- telephone as recorded
- HI 4-9740
- Principal Name
- Gordon F. Ponceby
- Principal Name As Recorded
- Gordon F Ponceby
- Directory Year
- 1957
- Residence Entry As Recorded
- Ponceby Gordon F h 137 Beechwood av (Nth Y)
- Residence As Recorded
- 137 Beechwood av
- Residence Place As Recorded
- North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Telephone As Recorded
- HI 4-9740
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Things to be careful about
- The alphabetical listing reads "Ponceby Gordon F h 137 Beechwood av (Nth Y)."
- The street-directory page lists "137 Ponceby Gordon F HI 4-9740."
- An OCR hit for "Jas ponce" on a separate page was rejected as unrelated and was not included in the page packet.
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, 1957
- archive identifier
- torontocitydirectory1957
- archive url
- https://archive.org/details/torontocitydirectory1957
- source page urls
- https://archive.org/details/torontocitydirectory1957/page/n1282/mode/1up
- https://archive.org/details/torontocitydirectory1957/page/n1802/mode/1up
- page image urls
- https://archive.org/download/torontocitydirectory1957/page/n1282_w2000.jpg
- https://archive.org/download/torontocitydirectory1957/page/n1802_w2000.jpg
- archive leafs
- n1282
- n1802
- extracted page types
- alphabetical resident 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/North York residence and telephone facts only.
- The related residence event remains proposed; do not update canonical person relationships from this approval alone.
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