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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(...)

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(...)

Date2/21/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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 proposed expansion has been attacked, and defended, by many local people.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0012557F
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
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
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
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
Scotty Dunbar, a guard at Canadian Tire's Brampton warehouse, says the company's profit-sharing plan has given him incomparable security for his old age. Dunbar, 49, has used his equity in Canadian Tire shares to pay off his mortgage and start a business that later failed. He still has more than $120,000 left. He hopes to retire in few years.
Scotty Dunbar, a guard at Canadian Tire's Brampton warehouse, says the company's profit-sharing plan has given him incomparable security for his old age. Dunbar, 49, has used his equity in Canadian Tire shares to pay off his mortgage and start a business that later failed. He still has more than $120,000 left. He hopes to retire in few years.
6/18/1975
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
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
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
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
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
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(...)
1/7/1976
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