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Winter's knockout blow slams metro to a standstill, A white-shrouded city glazed with ice, its traffic hopelessly snarled and many of its power and te(...)
Winter's knockout blow slams metro to a standstill, A white-shrouded city glazed with ice, its traffic hopelessly snarled and many of its power and te(...)

Winter's knockout blow slams metro to a standstill, A white-shrouded city glazed with ice, its traffic hopelessly snarled and many of its power and te(...)

Date1/15/1968
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Original Toronto Star caption: Winter's knockout blow slams metro to a standstill; A white-shrouded city glazed with ice; its traffic hopelessly snarled and many of its power and telephone lines down; began fighting its way out from under one of the nastiest winter blizzards to snarl Metro Toronto in many years.
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Winter's knockout blow slams metro to a standstill, A White-shrouded city glazed with ice, its traffic hopelessly snarled and many of its power and te(...)
Winter's knockout blow slams metro to a standstill, A White-shrouded city glazed with ice, its traffic hopelessly snarled and many of its power and te(...)
1/13/1968
Winter's lovely, but has its drawbacks as revealed in this air view of Niagara Falls where the long ice bridge below the cataracts stretches from Hors(...)
Winter's lovely, but has its drawbacks as revealed in this air view of Niagara Falls where the long ice bridge below the cataracts stretches from Hors(...)
2/12/1947
Coming 'round the tower: As the Goodyear blimp floated over Metro yesterday on its promotional tour, thousands of citizens craned their necks and traffic was brought to a standstill
Coming 'round the tower: As the Goodyear blimp floated over Metro yesterday on its promotional tour, thousands of citizens craned their necks and traffic was brought to a standstill
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Here's the flip side: Winter has its serene, beautiful side, too, as this photo of a sunbathed street in Metro after a heavy snowfall shows
Here's the flip side: Winter has its serene, beautiful side, too, as this photo of a sunbathed street in Metro after a heavy snowfall shows
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Take out the shovel, it's Hockey time, When the snow's too deep to play hockey, it's time to take out the shovel and clear the ice so the game can res(...)
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12/29/1983
The Door slams on student protest, Their way blocked by campus policemen guarding the locked doors of University of Toronto's central administration, (...)
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So long. Christ Evert slams a forehand during her last Toronto appearance a 6-4, 7-5 loss to Anne Minter last night in Player's Challenge tennis action
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Strangled in winter's grip, Toronto downtown intersection of King and Bay stands empty except for gently falling snow yesterday while city snowplows f(...)
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12/28/1968
Special drive in the O'Keefe Centre last night, actress Shelley Winters tells 3,000 purchasers that they were making not just an investment of faith in state of Israel and its struggle
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New deal for Robert Winters. It's out of Bay Street and on to Ottawa
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Winter takes its march break, Janie Bennett, left, and Leslie Gash prepare for a picnic at Beaches Park as others also enjoy yesterday's near-record h(...)
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