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Doomed tree
Doomed tree

Doomed tree

Date2/12/1985
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Original Toronto Star caption: Doomed tree: City council agreed this poplar tree in front of a home on Silver Birch Ave. in the Beaches should be cut down.
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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_0017782F
Pupils hunt a Christmas Tree. Three of 300 Toronto school children making their annual Christmas tree trek to Drysdale Tree Farm near Ballantree get s(...)
Pupils hunt a Christmas Tree. Three of 300 Toronto school children making their annual Christmas tree trek to Drysdale Tree Farm near Ballantree get s(...)
12/5/1968
Tree-Mendous: This 4-metre (14-foot) Scotch pine tree requires six hands to transport it
Tree-Mendous: This 4-metre (14-foot) Scotch pine tree requires six hands to transport it
12/12/1986
Everybody still on?, A tractor pulls a flatbed full of parents and children on their way to chop down a tree at Horton Tree Farms yesterday
Everybody still on?, A tractor pulls a flatbed full of parents and children on their way to chop down a tree at Horton Tree Farms yesterday
12/16/1984
Horton Tree Farm worker Jamie Hopkins shows young school children how a cut Christmas tree is tied up with a mesh net by machine to make it easier to (...)
Horton Tree Farm worker Jamie Hopkins shows young school children how a cut Christmas tree is tied up with a mesh net by machine to make it easier to (...)
12/17/1976
Octopus Tree, High Park's 225-year-old oak tree was being cut down today, the victim of old age and many lightning strikes
Octopus Tree, High Park's 225-year-old oak tree was being cut down today, the victim of old age and many lightning strikes
11/16/1983
Transplanting a tree is a tough job in any circumstance-but it's a lot harder when the tree is a delicate, 40-foot-high Schwedlerei maple from norther(...)
Transplanting a tree is a tough job in any circumstance-but it's a lot harder when the tree is a delicate, 40-foot-high Schwedlerei maple from norther(...)
2/26/1976
Look way up: Judy Schwartz's North York property boasts this 117-foot (about 36-metre) tall basswood, the tallest of the tall in the tallest tree caterogy of the great North York Tree Hunt
Look way up: Judy Schwartz's North York property boasts this 117-foot (about 36-metre) tall basswood, the tallest of the tall in the tallest tree caterogy of the great North York Tree Hunt
1/17/1990
They saw a tree: Bob Murcott of Rolling Meadows Farm near Brooklin shows children how to cut down a Christmas tree
They saw a tree: Bob Murcott of Rolling Meadows Farm near Brooklin shows children how to cut down a Christmas tree
11/21/1990
Happiness is a tree of your very own, The bite of frosty air and crunch of snow underfoot as he hauls his own Christmas tree out of the bush north of (...)
Happiness is a tree of your very own, The bite of frosty air and crunch of snow underfoot as he hauls his own Christmas tree out of the bush north of (...)
12/6/1967
Real christmas tradition: Grade 1 students from Rene Gordon Public School hoist their prize Christmas tree after cutting it at Horton Tree Farm
Real christmas tradition: Grade 1 students from Rene Gordon Public School hoist their prize Christmas tree after cutting it at Horton Tree Farm
11/29/1991
Holiday Haul: Children drag a Christmas tree from the Horton Tree Farm
Holiday Haul: Children drag a Christmas tree from the Horton Tree Farm
12/5/1991
Book cover: decorated with wreath around title
Transformation of a beech tree, or, The history of a favourite black chair : related by itself
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