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Maybe the lights should come down too, The last signs of the holiday season are disappearing around Toronto as city workers like Don Lundrigan collect(...)
Maybe the lights should come down too, The last signs of the holiday season are disappearing around Toronto as city workers like Don Lundrigan collect(...)

Maybe the lights should come down too, The last signs of the holiday season are disappearing around Toronto as city workers like Don Lundrigan collect(...)

Date1/12/1990
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Original Toronto Star caption: Maybe the lights should come down too; The last signs of the holiday season are disappearing around Toronto as city workers like Don Lundrigan collect Christmas trees from curbside and feed them into shredders.
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Farm for rent: Sale and rent signs on farms are as high as an elephant's eye in rural areas around Metro, where cornfields and dairy farms are disappearing under an advancing wave of houses
Farm for rent: Sale and rent signs on farms are as high as an elephant's eye in rural areas around Metro, where cornfields and dairy farms are disappearing under an advancing wave of houses
11/3/1987
Toronto signs pitcher. Lamp lights up Jays' life
Toronto signs pitcher. Lamp lights up Jays' life
1/10/1984
Five of eight signs held by workers during their strike last year at General Motors in Oshawa demand parity in pay with U.S. workers. The strikers wer(...)
Five of eight signs held by workers during their strike last year at General Motors in Oshawa demand parity in pay with U.S. workers. The strikers wer(...)
10/23/1970
The mayor makes 2 new friends. For the ninth year, the City of Toronto last night officially welcomed Yuletide season with Festival of Lights in Natha(...)
The mayor makes 2 new friends. For the ninth year, the City of Toronto last night officially welcomed Yuletide season with Festival of Lights in Natha(...)
11/28/1975
Gearing Up: Andre Kolomper, Toronto local president with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, stacks signs last night as strike deadline approached
Gearing Up: Andre Kolomper, Toronto local president with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers, stacks signs last night as strike deadline approached
8/22/1991
The lights are on: The spirit of Christmas in the city has even made stately old Queen's Park take on the sparkle of lights highlighting its architecture and glowing around the bandstand
The lights are on: The spirit of Christmas in the city has even made stately old Queen's Park take on the sparkle of lights highlighting its architecture and glowing around the bandstand
11/29/1985
Healthy Elm to be felled, A still-healthy elm tree, 60 feet tall and 70 years old, will be chopped down by the city of Toronto because it stands dead (...)
Healthy Elm to be felled, A still-healthy elm tree, 60 feet tall and 70 years old, will be chopped down by the city of Toronto because it stands dead (...)
6/20/1973
Entrance courtyard of the George Hamanns' city house is one of five around which the house was designed
Entrance courtyard of the George Hamanns' city house is one of five around which the house was designed
6/24/1975
Their cupboards are bare and several hundred striking civic workers line up at tables at the City Hall foyer to collect pay cheques for the six days t(...)
Their cupboards are bare and several hundred striking civic workers line up at tables at the City Hall foyer to collect pay cheques for the six days t(...)
4/20/1972
They should help: The Blue Jays' lack of left-handed relief pitching should be partially overcome this season with the addition of Bryan Clark, left, Stan Clarke and maybe John Cerutti
They should help: The Blue Jays' lack of left-handed relief pitching should be partially overcome this season with the addition of Bryan Clark, left, Stan Clarke and maybe John Cerutti
2/24/1984
City 'Lights Up' for Christmas, Passerby pause last night, after a brief lighting-up ceremony in front of City Hall, to gaze at the lights sparkling on a giant spruce tree
City 'Lights Up' for Christmas, Passerby pause last night, after a brief lighting-up ceremony in front of City Hall, to gaze at the lights sparkling on a giant spruce tree
12/2/1968
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