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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 (...)

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 (...)

Date6/20/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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 in the middle of an urban renewal site in the Trefann Court area; Council's parks committee decided yesterday.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0018320F
Among her souvenirs: While the aged tree was being chopped down, Gertrude Wilhell claimed a piece as a souvenir
Among her souvenirs: While the aged tree was being chopped down, Gertrude Wilhell claimed a piece as a souvenir
11/18/1983
Elm Tree on the Royal Road (near Marysville?), New Brunswick
Elm Tree on the Royal Road (near Marysville?), New Brunswick
1836
Stumping the hustings. Taking the politician's traditional chore of stumping the hustings quite literally, Roy Clifton, the New Democratic Party candidate in York Centre, stands on the stump of a dead elm in front of his campaign headquarters in Richmond Hill.
Stumping the hustings. Taking the politician's traditional chore of stumping the hustings quite literally, Roy Clifton, the New Democratic Party candidate in York Centre, stands on the stump of a dead elm in front of his campaign headquarters in Richmond Hill.
9/28/1971
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
Trees - Elm
Trees - Elm
5/28/1976
If malaise strikes: This victim of Dutch Elm disease is a stark warning against out-of-date planting techniques
If malaise strikes: This victim of Dutch Elm disease is a stark warning against out-of-date planting techniques
4/9/1973
Fight lost to save 100-year-old maple, A bid to save a 100-year-old tree in downtown Toronto from being cut down to make way for an office development has failed
Fight lost to save 100-year-old maple, A bid to save a 100-year-old tree in downtown Toronto from being cut down to make way for an office development has failed
7/6/1972
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
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
Young foresters: Five-year-old Joseph Piteo, left, has trouble cutting down a Christmas tree despite a helping hand from classmate Philip Perzia
Young foresters: Five-year-old Joseph Piteo, left, has trouble cutting down a Christmas tree despite a helping hand from classmate Philip Perzia
11/28/1986
Elm Tree, a home run by Jess Pennelli, used to charge $11 a day per patient for down to earth accommodation where nursing patients must mix with the mentally ill
Elm Tree, a home run by Jess Pennelli, used to charge $11 a day per patient for down to earth accommodation where nursing patients must mix with the mentally ill
8/2/1972
Helping disabled: Jordan Max, acting chairman of the March of Dimes' Accessible Housing Coalition, stands in front of an apartment building at 25 Elm St
Helping disabled: Jordan Max, acting chairman of the March of Dimes' Accessible Housing Coalition, stands in front of an apartment building at 25 Elm St
6/8/1989