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      A teen-aged Bobby (far left) smokes his first cigar with friends in Cabri, Saskatchewan
      Bobby and Grace on their wedding day
      A young Bobby in one of his first bandleader photos
      Leading the Bobby Gimby Orchestra on the S.S. Brant
      Bobby (far right) leads his 15-piece orchestra in the early 1940s
      The Happy Gang cast, ca. 1955 (from top, l to r): Jimmy Namaro, Lloyd Edwards, Barry Woods, Blaine Mathe, Joe Niosi, Bert Niosi, Bobby Gimby, Les Foster, Kaye Stokes, Eddie Allen, George Temple
      Bobby (top row, 4th from left) and wife Grace and daughter Lynn (bottom row, 2nd and 3rd from left) in a sponsorpship photo for The Happy Gang show
      Bobby leads children through the streets in 1967.
      With Lloyd Bradshaw, chorus master of the Canadian Opera Company and co-founder of the Canadian Children's Opera Chorus
      A 1940s promo shot
      An early co-write with Johnny Wayne, "When Liberace Winks at Me" was featured in HBO's Liberace biopic "Behind the Candelabra"
      On stage, 1950s
      The original "Canada" sheet music, which broke all records for sheet-music sales in Canada
      1950s (Mario Geo, The Toronto Star)
      The scene on Parliament Hill, Ottawa at Canada's Centennial Celebration, July 1, 1967
      Bobby is presented with the award for the largest-selling recording in Canadian history by Sec. of State Judy LaMarsh
      With kids at Expo 67
      With Prime MInister Lester B. Pearson in 1967 (Warrender, Ottawa)
      With a budding trumpeter, Montreal (Graetz - Montreal)
      Leading the Bobby Gimby Orchestra at the Manoir Richelieu, Quebec (Jules Blouin)
      Recording "Have a Happy Moment" (Roy Nicholls)
      With kids in the Yukon (Lynn Gimby-Bougerol)
      Queen Elizabeth II recieving the Canada record from centennial commissioner John Fisher (Dominion Wide - Ottawa)
      Bobby performs with kids in the mid-1970s
      In Hamilton, for CHML
      Leading the Parade for Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau up Bay Street to City Hall, performing "Let's Get Together" (Leo Harrison, Toronto Telegram)
      For the largest sale of a recording in Canadian history, Secretary of State Judy LaMarsh presents Bobby with a gold record
      Receiving Broadcaster of the Year Award from R.P. McGowan of the Central Broadcasters Association
      With January JOnes, 1964 (Mario Geo/Toronto Star)
      With kids in Windsor, ON (Windsor Star)
      Performing with kids in Hamilton, Ontario
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