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Weightlifting in the Brunswick Avenue Y.M.-Y.W.H.A. exercise room, ca. 1950. Ontario Jewish Archives, fonds 61:6:15.

Conditions were often cramped for ‘Y’ members, as this photograph clearly shows. Capacity could easily reach several hundred, particularly on Sundays, which was the busiest day of the week for the ‘Y’. This photograph was later used in campaign material for the new building campaign.

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