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Sugar mountain, Mike Procio, an employee with Seaway Terminal, stands atop a mountain of unrefined sugar that is being stockpiled on a parking lot bes(...)

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Sugar mountain, Mike Procio, an employee with Seaway Terminal, stands atop a mountain of unrefined sugar that is being stockpiled on a parking lot bes(...)

Date11/20/1987

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Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Weil, Bernard (photographer)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Sugar mountain; Mike Procio; an employee with Seaway Terminal; stands atop a mountain of unrefined sugar that is being stockpiled on a parking lot beside the Redpath Sugar plant on Queen's Quay. With the St. Lawrence Seaway shipping season soon coming to an end; anxious ship captains are trying to unload their cargoes as soon as possible to speed their return out to open sea.

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