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Radioactive fill under St. Mary's Separate School in Port Hope will be removed, at a cost of $125,000, according to Peter Roach, director of education(...)
Radioactive fill under St. Mary's Separate School in Port Hope will be removed, at a cost of $125,000, according to Peter Roach, director of education(...)

Radioactive fill under St. Mary's Separate School in Port Hope will be removed, at a cost of $125,000, according to Peter Roach, director of education(...)

Date1/7/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: Radioactive fill under St. Mary's Separate School in Port Hope will be removed; at a cost of $125;000; according to Peter Roach; director of education for the Separate School Board there. He shows a section of the school where the back wall must be taken down so the floor can be removed to get at the landfill. Parents have kept their children from the school since the radiation was discovered.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0012543F
A small bulldozer moves earth from the basement of a small house, next to a woodlot.
Radioactive fill, 12,000 cubic yards of it, is being hauled away from Ivan Lewis' property in Port Hope as a bulldozer replaces it with clean earth. L(...)
18 December 1975
6. Eric Draper in foreground and Gerald Gibson taking readings around house on Yonge St. in Port Hope
6. Eric Draper in foreground and Gerald Gibson taking readings around house on Yonge St. in Port Hope
4/5/1976
Good riddance: John Veldhuis of Port Granby, near Port Hope, would be glad to see nuclear waste go elsewhere
Good riddance: John Veldhuis of Port Granby, near Port Hope, would be glad to see nuclear waste go elsewhere
7/21/1988
Blessing or curse? Eldorado Nuclear plant in Port Hope has given the town polluted air and soil but it has also provided employment. The company's pro(...)
Blessing or curse? Eldorado Nuclear plant in Port Hope has given the town polluted air and soil but it has also provided employment. The company's pro(...)
2/21/1975
1. Stuart Morley is checking the bedroom of Tony Pearson 13 on 57 Young in Port Hope for radiation
1. Stuart Morley is checking the bedroom of Tony Pearson 13 on 57 Young in Port Hope for radiation
4/5/1976
Cows graze near nuclear dump at Port Hope, Eventually Canada will have to move such waste matter - and other nuclear material. Transporting it will po(...)
Cows graze near nuclear dump at Port Hope, Eventually Canada will have to move such waste matter - and other nuclear material. Transporting it will po(...)
7/31/1975
Every house in port hope is being tested for radiation contamination by crews from the federal Atomic Energy Control Board and provincial health minis(...)
Every house in port hope is being tested for radiation contamination by crews from the federal Atomic Energy Control Board and provincial health minis(...)
4/5/1976
High levels of radon gas, which has been linked to cancer, have been found in the Port Hope home of Gail and Charles Bonathan, sitting in their kitche(...)
High levels of radon gas, which has been linked to cancer, have been found in the Port Hope home of Gail and Charles Bonathan, sitting in their kitche(...)
1/30/1976
A technician checks the outside of a truck in Port Hope, Ont
A technician checks the outside of a truck in Port Hope, Ont
6/2/1976
On the way: workers at Chalk River, Canadaïs only controlled nuclear waste dump site, shovel radioactive waste, removed from Port Hope several years ago, down special containers
On the way: workers at Chalk River, Canadaïs only controlled nuclear waste dump site, shovel radioactive waste, removed from Port Hope several years ago, down special containers
7/30/1984
Farmer Bud Elliott (right), whose land borders the nuclear dump used by a refining firm at Port Granby, gets help from David Imlach in setting a fence(...)
Farmer Bud Elliott (right), whose land borders the nuclear dump used by a refining firm at Port Granby, gets help from David Imlach in setting a fence(...)
7/31/1975
Waste search: Site superintendent Peter Graham checks work yesterday on a section of sidewalk in Scarborough being torn up in an effort to locate contaminated soil
Waste search: Site superintendent Peter Graham checks work yesterday on a section of sidewalk in Scarborough being torn up in an effort to locate contaminated soil
9/28/1990