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A New Life for Chris in Toronto
Chris found lodgings at a boarding house at 210 Cottingham Street, near his new workplace, about a kilometre due north of Yonge and Bloor Streets. The house was filled with mostly young women who were retail and office workers.

In early 1955, Chris's supervisor at Atlas, Gordon McEwan, left to open his own shop in a laneway near Palmerston Avenue and Bloor Street, and Chris and Erik went to work for him. In March, the two friends moved into a boarding house at 65 London Street, close to McEwen's new shop.

65 London Street, Chris’s second home in Toronto, 1955.
65 London Street, Chris's second home in Toronto, 1955.
(CMC, Christian Bennedsen Collection, P35-7.E1-65.001,
E2007-00189)

Chris worked long hours, installing furnaces all over the city, from the smallest row houses to the grandest Forest Hill mansions.

Listen to an interview in which Chris recounts a service call to the Robert Young Eaton residence in Forest Hill.
(CMC, Christian Bennedsen Collection)

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