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It's in the bag
It's in the bag

It's in the bag

Date8/8/1984
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Original Toronto Star caption: It's in the bag: Ivy Earle; left; says good riddance to bad rubbish as Colleen Turney loads her garbage into a station wagon. Students are making money hauling trash during the Etobicoke strike.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0016555F
Scuttled service: Marine police officers John Winter, left, and George Dee recover a bag of mail about 100 metres (300 feet) off Cherry Beach yesterday
Scuttled service: Marine police officers John Winter, left, and George Dee recover a bag of mail about 100 metres (300 feet) off Cherry Beach yesterday
10/25/1991
Mountain of garbage greats Michael Furiano, a security guard hired by the city to patrol a pile of garbage bags at Shuter and Seaton Sts. Furiano repr(...)
Mountain of garbage greats Michael Furiano, a security guard hired by the city to patrol a pile of garbage bags at Shuter and Seaton Sts. Furiano repr(...)
4/13/1972
The spring civic strike at City Hall, when the garbage bags were piled high in High Park and throughout the city, was one of many across the country
The spring civic strike at City Hall, when the garbage bags were piled high in High Park and throughout the city, was one of many across the country
4/25/1972
Toronto parcels piling up. Hundreds of bags of mail and parcel post pile up in courtyard of Toronto post office's city delivery building. At top left,(...)
Toronto parcels piling up. Hundreds of bags of mail and parcel post pile up in courtyard of Toronto post office's city delivery building. At top left,(...)
8/30/1966
Jay Cleary, 8, drags a garbage bag to a temporary dump at a tennis court in Etobicoke - ignoring a giant message to Mayor Dennis Flynn
Jay Cleary, 8, drags a garbage bag to a temporary dump at a tennis court in Etobicoke - ignoring a giant message to Mayor Dennis Flynn
8/13/1984
Rain pelts down on museum strikers, Pickets march in the rain outside the Royal Ontario Museum, hit yesterday by its second strike this week when 229 (...)
Rain pelts down on museum strikers, Pickets march in the rain outside the Royal Ontario Museum, hit yesterday by its second strike this week when 229 (...)
9/26/1985
2,000,000 a day for mail mountain, As Toronto's first postal strike in 41 years enters its second day, undelivered mail is piling up at post offices a(...)
2,000,000 a day for mail mountain, As Toronto's first postal strike in 41 years enters its second day, undelivered mail is piling up at post offices a(...)
7/24/1965
'Doris, it's about that birthday card I mailed'
'Doris, it's about that birthday card I mailed'
10/19/1978
Postal strike: The Trudeau cabinet is using the dispute to show Canadians that the government is serious in its fight against inflation, says Star labor reporter John Deverell
Postal strike: The Trudeau cabinet is using the dispute to show Canadians that the government is serious in its fight against inflation, says Star labor reporter John Deverell
7/2/1981
Determined Strikers, Public service employees walk the picket line yesterday at Terminal 3 at Pearson International Airport. Today the strike enters its eighty day
Determined Strikers, Public service employees walk the picket line yesterday at Terminal 3 at Pearson International Airport. Today the strike enters its eighty day
9/15/1991
Only Evidence of the strike against CP Air, by nearly 100 Toronto members of International Association of Machinists, as it entered its fourth week, w(...)
Only Evidence of the strike against CP Air, by nearly 100 Toronto members of International Association of Machinists, as it entered its fourth week, w(...)
8/15/1973
Toronto western hospital strikers walk picket line today outside the institution just before its executive director Boyd McAulay announced that dismis(...)
Toronto western hospital strikers walk picket line today outside the institution just before its executive director Boyd McAulay announced that dismis(...)
7/27/1972