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It's tough going but Joey Birt, 5, (left) and Michael LeBlanc, 5, at the big end of the Christmas tree and George Christie bringing up the rear manage(...)
It's tough going but Joey Birt, 5, (left) and Michael LeBlanc, 5, at the big end of the Christmas tree and George Christie bringing up the rear manage(...)

It's tough going but Joey Birt, 5, (left) and Michael LeBlanc, 5, at the big end of the Christmas tree and George Christie bringing up the rear manage(...)

Date12/4/1969
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Original Toronto Star caption: It's tough going but Joey Birt; 5; (left) and Michael LeBlanc; 5; at the big end of the Christmas tree and George Christie bringing up the rear managed to get the tree out of the bush. They stumbled a couple of times but didn't stop.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0018395F
Proud lumberjack: Billy Dunlop, 5, found just the Christmas tree for his family at the Bose Tress Farm, one of several serve-yourself farms in the Metro area
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On the way: For 3 1/2-year-old Caleb (left) and 1 1/2-year-old Cody Cooper, picking up the Christmas tree is the first important step toward Christmas morning
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Choosing a christmas tree for Albion Gardens Junior Public School in Etobicoke is a big job, and the 40 senior kindergarten pupils examined all the tr(...)
Choosing a christmas tree for Albion Gardens Junior Public School in Etobicoke is a big job, and the 40 senior kindergarten pupils examined all the tr(...)
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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(...)
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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 (...)
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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(...)
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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
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Timber!: Tara Gauthier, 5, left, puts blade to trunk as Brian McGee, 4, and Keith Horton of Horton Tree Farm help out during Wexford Public School students' outing to cut their own
Timber!: Tara Gauthier, 5, left, puts blade to trunk as Brian McGee, 4, and Keith Horton of Horton Tree Farm help out during Wexford Public School students' outing to cut their own
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A tree for tomorrow, Metro worker Jody Rosenblatt shows, from left, 8-year-old Andrew and Stephen Yuie, 5, Marie Macinally and Joe Holmes how to plant(...)
A tree for tomorrow, Metro worker Jody Rosenblatt shows, from left, 8-year-old Andrew and Stephen Yuie, 5, Marie Macinally and Joe Holmes how to plant(...)
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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
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Trucking trees: Christmas tree farmers begin unloading a batch of trees for Metro's Christmas celebrants
Trucking trees: Christmas tree farmers begin unloading a batch of trees for Metro's Christmas celebrants
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