Stunning Photos from the 1970s in Toronto Showing Street Scenes and Everyday Life

#1 Looking east to Old City Hall along Queen St. W., Sept. 1975.

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#2 TTC PCC streetcar 4741 (acquired secondhand by Toronto, originally build for Birmingham Alabama) stops at the corner of King & York to pickup westbound passengers in June 1970.

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#3 Toronto from the Cayuga, 1900s

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#4 Does anyone remember turning Yonge Street into a pedestrian mall in the summer in the 1970s

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#5 Store front on Queen Street West near Jameson in about 1972.

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#6 Jack and Jill’s and the Cafe de la Paix, 1970s

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#7 Street Vendor on Yonge Street, 1972.

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#8 View looking north on Yonge St. near Edward St. with Christmas lights up, about 1972.

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#9 TD Centre, Commerce Court, Royal York Hotel, etc., view looking north east from C.N. Tower, Aug. 1976.

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#10 Toronto, view looking northwest from the C.N. Tower, Aug. 1976.

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#11 West Island, Ontario Place. Photo by Ellis Wiley, August 1972.

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#12 Exhibition Park, view looking west from Ontario Place, Aug. 1975.

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#13 An alley behind King Street East off of Church Street, 1970s

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#14 TTC PCC streetcar 4545 heads westbound on St. Clair Ave. East near Our Lady of Perpetual Help Catholic Church on a sunny Summer afternoon in 1972, after coming down Mount Pleasant Ave. from Eglinton loop at the end of the St. Clair route.

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#15 Toronto Skyline, September 1976.

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#16 Drive in Toronto, 1970s

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#17 38-40 Beaconsfield Avenue, 1978

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#18 Highbrook Senior Public School, 1974

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#19 Dad at Nathan Phillips Square, probably mid 1970s

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#20 Dundas St. near Kipling Ave., 1970s

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#21 TTC Lansdowne garage 50, 1970s

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#22 Gray coach bus at st clair stn rear exit. Training bus – Credit Leonard Jacks‎, 1972

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#23 Don Mills & Lawrence looking west early 1970s

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#24 61 Binscarth Road, 1979

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#25 TTC Birchmount garage, 1972

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#26 70 Berkeley Street – 1970

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#27 55-79 Berkeley Street – 1972

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#28 26 Berkeley Street – 1973

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#29 95 Bellevue Avenue, 1979

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#30 87 Bellevue Avenue -1991

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#31 87 Bellevue Avenue, 1979

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#32 TTC GM bus 3718 at Passmore and Midland – Credit Leonard Jacks‎, 1973

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#33 39 Beaty Avenue, 1976

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#34 39-43 Beaconsfield Avenue, 1976

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#35 35-37 Beaconsfield Avenue, 1970

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#36 32-34 Beaconsfield Avenue, 1976

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#37 28-30 Beaconsfield Avenue, 1976

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#38 27-29 Beaconsfield Avenue, 1976

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#39 14 Beaconsfield Avenue, 1976

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#40 19 Beaconsfield Avenue, 1976

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#41 9-11 Beaconsfield Avenue, 1976

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#42 8-10 Beaconsfield Avenue, 1979

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#43 222 Bay Street (Toronto Stock Exchange), 1976

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#44 West side of Yonge between Front & Wellington, 1974

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#45 West side of Yonge between Front & Wellington, 1974

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#46 Bathurst & Lakeshore looking northwest, 1979

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#47 This is what 4 Bancroft looked like after it was moved, 1979

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#48 This is 4 Bancroft Avenue in 1976. This house was cut in half and the main part was saved and moved west to be part of Bancroft Hall.

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#49 124 Baldwin Street, 1976

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#50 110-112 Baldwin Street, 1976

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#51 19-21 Baldwin Street, 1979

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#52 50 Baldwin Street, 1970

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#53 50 Baldwin Street, 1970

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#54 100 Bain Avenue, 1975

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#55 240 Avenue Road, 1973

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#56 Northeast corner of Avenue Road & Davenport, 1976

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#57 The Old Vienna Bookshop – 112 Avenue Road, 1976

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#58 Lillian Weiss Antiques – 110 Avenue Road, 1976

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#59 Pottery Shop – 100 Avenue Road, 1976

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#60 Auberge Gavroche – 90 Avenue Road – Surprisingly this building is still standing, 1976

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#61 The Irish Shop – Gerald Campbell Studios – 84-86 Avenue Road, 1976

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#62 Bobbe Logan Salon – 88 Avenue Road, 1976

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#63 127-129-131-133 Amelia Street – Before Renovations, 1975

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#64 36-40 Amelia Street – After Renovations, 1979

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#65 36-40 Amelia Street – During Renovations, 1979

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#66 36-40 Amelia Street – Before Renovations, 1979

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#67 Looking north on Lisgar Street towards 2-4 Afton Avenue, 1979

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#68 Afton & Lisgar looking northeast, 1979

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#69 Mark Hamill, Carrie Fisher and Harrison Ford signing books at a Toronto book store, 1977

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#70 Admiral Road – 1973

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#71 Admiral Road, 1973

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#72 TTC GM bus 3763 Steeles near Old Kennedy Road – Credit Leonard Jacks‎, 1973

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#73 Summerhill Gardens – Credit Pamela Bolan‎, 1979

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#74 Here we have the CHUM Satellite Station set up in front of the O’Keefe Centre, 1970s

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#75 Ontario Place, 1976

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#76 De Havilland family day, 1970

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#77 Leslie bus at freshmeadow st. Near don mills and steeles, 1973

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#78 TTC mini bus – Credit Leonard Jackes, 1973

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#79 This year marks the 50th anniversary of GO Transit bus operations. Here is a great Ted Wickson shot of General Motors GO Transit 1120 bus from around the mid-1970s.

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#80 Alice Cooper makes his Toronto debut at the Toronto Pop Festival at Varsity stadium 51 years ago, 1970s

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#81 Sam’s Cigar Store sign, 1970s

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#82 A TTC PCC streetcar on the Carlton route (possibly on diversion or detour) heads north on McCaul Street between Dundas and College, 1975

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#83 Fineberg’s Delicatessen at 648 Queen St. West, 1972

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#84 TTC Rosedale bus nb on Glen rd at Highland Avenue, 1973

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#85 King st west of simcoe st. – Credit Leonard Jacks, 1973

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#86 Yonge st below st clair last Saturday, 1973

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#87 TTC Streetcar 4440 Kingston line Southbound on Roncesvalles about to turn east on Queen Street West – 13 July 1970.

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#88 TTC Streetcar 2766 travelling eastbound on Queen Street West, near Bay Street, July 1973.

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#89 CN Tower Construction, 1975

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#90 Queen Street, looking east towards Bay Street. Time lapse photo taken from the bridge connecting Nathan Phillips Square to the Sheraton Hotel, 1974

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#91 Yonge and eglinton looking north, 1973

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#92 Downtown view from the Bulova Tower – C.N.E., 1974

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#93 Rush at Massey Hall, January 10, 1976

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#94 Coal Tower Scene Spadina, Toronto, 1978

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#95 Bob Benns (seen on the ground) managing the last antenna piece lift by Olga the Sikorsky helicopter, 1975

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#96 Paul Mitchell, CANRON, (RIP) getting ready to place the last piece of the CN Tower’s antenna on April 2nd 1975 (before the snow storm came in later in the afternoon).

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#97 March 1975 signing of the CN Tower’s top antenna segment at Harbour front but this time from the ground.

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#98 The top segment of the CN Tower’s antenna and signing it in person, here’s a photo you will not have seen before, 1975

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#99 Toronto Skyline in April 1975. The CN Tower and the BMO building at King and Bay are under construction.

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#100 Old school streetcar on Queen Street between Yonge and Bay, summer of 1975.

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#101 St. Clair West looking east towards Yonge Street, 1978.

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#102 SMITH BROS. PIONEER WAGON AND CARRIAGE WORKS est. 1843 corner of Duke and Parliament St. – Credit Beverley Whitbread

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#103 The Canadian Railway Museum at Harbour front, 1977

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#104 TTC Bay and Queen st., 1973

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#105 The Hong Luck Kung Fu Club, Dundas St., West of Spadina, 1970s

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#106 Gray coach bus 1973

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#107 Toronto, 1973

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#108 Hollywood Theatre, shortly after the exterior was extensively renovated, March 16, 1975.

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#109 Hollywood Theatre on Yonge Street just south of Heath Street, June 2, 1974.

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#110 Brown Derby Tavern, north east corner of Yonge & Dundas Street intersection, June 23, 1971.

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#111 Toronto, 1975

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#112 The Eaton Centre Under Construction, Summer, 1975

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#113 The Eaton Centre Under Construction, 1975

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#114 The Eaton Centre Under Construction, 1975

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#115 The Eaton Centre Under Construction, 1975

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#116 St. Clair Ave. East looking east towards Birchmount Road, 1973

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#117 At the 100th Anniversary of the CNE, 1975

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#118 Greaser Day, Birchmount Park Collegiate, 1975

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#119 Re configuring the CNE Grandstand into CNE Stadium in 1975

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#120 Popcorn Vendor’s Cart, 1977

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#121 Toronto Ice cream vendor, 1977

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#122 Miles For Millions Walkathon, 1975

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#123 Warden below Eglinton, 1973

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#124 Carling-O’Keefe British-built blimp powered by twin Porsche engines, 1970s

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#125 CNE, The Flyer, around 1975

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#126 The CFTO Studios at 401, 1975

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#127 This man would roam and play all these instruments at the same time at the CNE, 1975

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#128 Queen and Spadina 1974.

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#129 Queen Street East, June 1976.

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#130 Police in Toronto with Gary Cormier and Gary Topp, 1979

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#131 Looking west on Front Street from Princess Street, 1970s

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#132 New TTC bus, 1973

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#133 A charter of TTC Peter Witt streetcar 2766, TTC 7528 is a 1972 General Motors Diesel Division T6H 5395 model bus and is doing Ontario Place express duty, 1976

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#134 Burnhamthorpe Road, early 1970s.

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#135 Forest Hill bus on Lonsdale wb at Baker st., 1973

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#136 City Hall Skating Rink, 1970s

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#137 Don Mills & Lawrence Avenue East, 1972

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#138 Moving Campbell House in the 1970s

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#139 Don Mills Bus, 1972

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#140 Voyageur Colonial 1834 is a former Colonial Coach Lines 1962 General Motors PD 4106 model bus with the Eaton’s College Street Store in the background 1970.

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#141 South Building, Erindale Campus U of T, 1970

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#142 TTC Western Flyer model bus on a charter, 1970.

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#143 TTC 3938 was a General Motors New Look bus purchased in 1966. It is seen on the former Keele 41B route, 1970.

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#144 Sportsmen’s Show 1976 Exhibition Place photo taken from Bulova tower

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#145 Sportsmen’s Show 1976 Exhibition Place photo taken from Bulova tower

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#146 This is Eglinton Ave East looking south with Danforth on the left and Brimley on the right in 1974.

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#147 TTC Bathurst hillcrest yard. Ex Nova Scotia trolleys in photo bought for TTC Trolley coach Rebuild program, 1970

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#148 Tabor Park V.S., 1972

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#149 Brampton Transit 7820 at the time a rare 35 foot 1978 Flyer D800B on a private fan charter to the Halton County Radial Railway. ‎

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#150 The Duke of Connaught on fire, 1979

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#151 Yonge night bus northbound at Bloor Street – Credit Leonard Jacks – 1971

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#152 The old Hotel Morrissey also known as The Morrissey Tavern at 817 Yonge Street, Toronto, 1970

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#153 Wrestling at MLG, early 1970s

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#154 Wrestling at MLG, early 1970s

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#155 Fire at the Tam O’Shanter pool complex, 1971

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#156 Fire at the Tam O’Shanter pool complex, 1971

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#157 Fire at the Tam O’Shanter pool complex , 1971

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#158 Queens Quay just west of York Street looking east, 1970s

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#159 C.N.E. – Concord flying by – Credit Olympia Russo‎, 1979

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#160 John McCrae Sr. P.S., 1970

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