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Long night: Pickets at CP Rail's Agincourt yard warm themselves around a barrel fire last night as they prepare for a long strike by 48,000 CN and CP rail workers across the country
Long night: Pickets at CP Rail's Agincourt yard warm themselves around a barrel fire last night as they prepare for a long strike by 48,000 CN and CP rail workers across the country

Long night: Pickets at CP Rail's Agincourt yard warm themselves around a barrel fire last night as they prepare for a long strike by 48,000 CN and CP rail workers across the country

Date8/23/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Long night: Pickets at CP Rail's Agincourt yard warm themselves around a barrel fire last night as they prepare for a long strike by 48;000 CN and CP rail workers across the country.
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Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
12/5/1973
Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
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