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  • Subject: Accidents
Just testing. Fire and ambulance crews attend to victims yesterday after a mock plane crash at the Toronto Island Airport. In the simulated disaster, (...)
Just testing. Fire and ambulance crews attend to victims yesterday after a mock plane crash at the Toronto Island Airport. In the simulated disaster, (...)
6/22/1991
Danger warnings like these on transformers do nothing about the problems of disposal or storage of PCBs
Danger warnings like these on transformers do nothing about the problems of disposal or storage of PCBs
11/1/1979
Practice makes perfect. Terence Chau, right, has only 15 minutes to help patient Annmarie West during a fake air disaster staged during the St. John A(...)
Practice makes perfect. Terence Chau, right, has only 15 minutes to help patient Annmarie West during a fake air disaster staged during the St. John A(...)
2/25/1990
Star role
Star role
4/1/1987
Too many cords plugged into one outlet mean a fire
Too many cords plugged into one outlet mean a fire
1/1/1962
A Scarborough family also found early in October that a smoke detect works even in its They were awaken fire by a detect a shelf in the To take [Incomplete]
A Scarborough family also found early in October that a smoke detect works even in its They were awaken fire by a detect a shelf in the To take [Incomplete]
n.d.
Helpful helmet: The Emergency Fire Hood provides protection from smoke and flames
Helpful helmet: The Emergency Fire Hood provides protection from smoke and flames
2/7/1983
Our March tests also included
Our March tests also included
12/7/1978
Practising for an emergency. Miri Feguson, 9, left, and her 7-year-old sister, Kyla, practise how to escape if their Mississauga home caught fire yest(...)
Practising for an emergency. Miri Feguson, 9, left, and her 7-year-old sister, Kyla, practise how to escape if their Mississauga home caught fire yest(...)
10/6/1998
Tweed, Ontario arena collapse in 1951
Tweed, Ontario arena collapse in 1951
12/31/1951
Death car plunged off the open Burlington bridge last night into 26 feet of water in the canal
Death car plunged off the open Burlington bridge last night into 26 feet of water in the canal
5/12/1948
I will see you again in Spence Bay or in Heaven, 14-year-old David Kootook wrote to his parents in Eskimo a few days after the light plane taking him (...)
I will see you again in Spence Bay or in Heaven, 14-year-old David Kootook wrote to his parents in Eskimo a few days after the light plane taking him (...)
3/1/1973
Hartwell, Martin
Hartwell, Martin
n.d.
Not allowed to examine witnesses at inquest into death of three persons when a mercy flight crashed, Toronto lawyer James Karswick (left), withdrew as(...)
Not allowed to examine witnesses at inquest into death of three persons when a mercy flight crashed, Toronto lawyer James Karswick (left), withdrew as(...)
2/27/1973
Hartwell, Martin
Hartwell, Martin
3/1/1973
Dangerous sports : a tale addressed to children, warning them against wanton, careless, or mischievous exposure to situations, from which alarming injuries so often proceed
Dangerous sports : a tale addressed to children, warning them against wanton, careless, or mischievous exposure to situations, from which alarming injuries so often proceed
1803
Dangerous sports : a tale addressed to children, warning them against wanton, careless, or mischievous exposure to situations, from which alarming injuries so often proceed
Dangerous sports : a tale addressed to children, warning them against wanton, careless, or mischievous exposure to situations, from which alarming injuries so often proceed
1800
They lost a father: Mrs. Elsie May and four of her seven children sit sadly in their Stayner home after learning that Douglas May, 44, had lost his li(...)
They lost a father: Mrs. Elsie May and four of her seven children sit sadly in their Stayner home after learning that Douglas May, 44, had lost his li(...)
5/29/1969
Three CNR cars derailed last night in Weston and 14 persons were injured -- one when a fence post pierced her abdomen
Three CNR cars derailed last night in Weston and 14 persons were injured -- one when a fence post pierced her abdomen
1/7/1970
Head-on crash of two CNR freight trains killed at least two men early today at Pefferlaw, 30 miles northeast of Newmarket. Three men were injured, one(...)
Head-on crash of two CNR freight trains killed at least two men early today at Pefferlaw, 30 miles northeast of Newmarket. Three men were injured, one(...)
3/16/1968
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