What it says
Extracted pages from the 1959 Might's Greater Toronto city directory naming Gordon Ponceby as manager of Best Buy Motors and listing Gordon F. Ponceby at 65 Citation Drive, North York.
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Ref: Toronto City Directory Pages for Gordon F. Ponceby, 1959
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Toronto City Directory Pages for Gordon F. Ponceby, 1959
Extracted pages from the 1959 Might's Greater Toronto city directory naming Gordon Ponceby as manager of Best Buy Motors and listing Gordon F. Ponceby at 65 Citation Drive, North York.
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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
- 1959
- business name as recorded
- Best Buy Motors
- business role as recorded
- mgr
- business type as recorded
- used cars
- business address as recorded
- 983 Queen e
- residence entry as recorded
- Ponceby Gordon F mgr Best Buy Motors h 65 Citation dr (NY)
- residence as recorded
- 65 Citation dr
- residence place as recorded
- North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Principal Name
- Gordon F. Ponceby
- Principal Name As Recorded
- Gordon F Ponceby
- Directory Year
- 1959
- Business Name As Recorded
- Best Buy Motors
- Business Role As Recorded
- mgr
- Business Type As Recorded
- used cars
- Business Address As Recorded
- 983 Queen e
- Residence Entry As Recorded
- Ponceby Gordon F mgr Best Buy Motors h 65 Citation dr (NY)
- Residence As Recorded
- 65 Citation dr
- Residence Place As Recorded
- North York, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Things to be careful about
- The business-listing page reads "Best Buy Motors Gordon Ponceby mgr used cars 983 Queen e."
- The alphabetical listing reads "Ponceby Gordon F mgr Best Buy Motors h 65 Citation dr (NY)."
- No 1959 street-directory Ponceby hit was found in the public Internet Archive 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, 1959
- archive identifier
- torontocitydirectory1959
- archive url
- https://archive.org/details/torontocitydirectory1959
- source page urls
- https://archive.org/details/torontocitydirectory1959/page/n216/mode/1up
- https://archive.org/details/torontocitydirectory1959/page/n1171/mode/1up
- page image urls
- https://archive.org/download/torontocitydirectory1959/page/n216_w2000.jpg
- https://archive.org/download/torontocitydirectory1959/page/n1171_w2000.jpg
- archive leafs
- n216
- n1171
- extracted page types
- business/classified listing
- alphabetical resident listing
- 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, 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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