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Coldest in 36 Years for Dec. 3. That's how weathermen at Environment Canada described today's deep freeze. And this bush covered with frozen spray on (...)
Coldest in 36 Years for Dec. 3. That's how weathermen at Environment Canada described today's deep freeze. And this bush covered with frozen spray on (...)

Coldest in 36 Years for Dec. 3. That's how weathermen at Environment Canada described today's deep freeze. And this bush covered with frozen spray on (...)

Date12/2/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: Coldest in 36 Years for Dec. 3. That's how weathermen at Environment Canada described today's deep freeze. And this bush covered with frozen spray on Toronto's waterfront shows it. The shapes in the background are birds. There'll be a brief respite tomorrow; then the cold weather returns.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019800F
Jack Frost in action! A fine winter scene at Niagara Falls, with the frozen spray making quaint castles and great weird formations in the foreground, (...)
Jack Frost in action! A fine winter scene at Niagara Falls, with the frozen spray making quaint castles and great weird formations in the foreground, (...)
3/4/1933
Aaahhhh - warmth, Martin Parr and Jennifer Reece find relief from the deep freeze in warm exhaust from ice rink refrigeration vents at Nathan Phillips Square yesterday
Aaahhhh - warmth, Martin Parr and Jennifer Reece find relief from the deep freeze in warm exhaust from ice rink refrigeration vents at Nathan Phillips Square yesterday
12/19/1989
A year ago today Lawrence Ave. E. was covered with snow, biting winds whipped Metro and the mean temperature of 17 degrees made it the coldest day of (...)
A year ago today Lawrence Ave. E. was covered with snow, biting winds whipped Metro and the mean temperature of 17 degrees made it the coldest day of (...)
12/4/1972
Cars parked along lakeshore area in west end were caked with up to 3 inches of frozen spray whipped up by hurricane-force winds yesterday. Ray Russell(...)
Cars parked along lakeshore area in west end were caked with up to 3 inches of frozen spray whipped up by hurricane-force winds yesterday. Ray Russell(...)
1/27/1978
Coldest spot in town. A house is on fire only feet away, but fireman Wallace Gardiner finds it hard to believe as water sprays him in near-zero temper(...)
Coldest spot in town. A house is on fire only feet away, but fireman Wallace Gardiner finds it hard to believe as water sprays him in near-zero temper(...)
1/8/1973
Festooned with ice, The Ned Hanlan ties up in Toronto, Wind-whipped spray freezes on the tug as it moves about the harbor
Festooned with ice, The Ned Hanlan ties up in Toronto, Wind-whipped spray freezes on the tug as it moves about the harbor
11 January 1962
Chilling scene: Water freezes as it sprays from fire hydrant in Toronto yesterday
Chilling scene: Water freezes as it sprays from fire hydrant in Toronto yesterday
1/5/1988
Frozen out: David Myers, his wife Carolyn, and his mother Gladys, seated, inspect condo purchase documents cancelled after the Harbourfront development freeze
Frozen out: David Myers, his wife Carolyn, and his mother Gladys, seated, inspect condo purchase documents cancelled after the Harbourfront development freeze
3/31/1989
Steady customers: That's jockey Don Seymour and this year's Kinghaven Farm 3-year-old star Ever Steady, perhaps dreaming of a Queen's Plate win this summer
Steady customers: That's jockey Don Seymour and this year's Kinghaven Farm 3-year-old star Ever Steady, perhaps dreaming of a Queen's Plate win this summer
3/14/1990
George Beer, 69, shows how today's hard-working commission salesman sets out laden with samples for his day's work. Beer has been working 22 years to form the Ontario Federation of Commission Agents. With 400 members, it has one goal for all: guaranteed commissions for its enterprising members.
George Beer, 69, shows how today's hard-working commission salesman sets out laden with samples for his day's work. Beer has been working 22 years to form the Ontario Federation of Commission Agents. With 400 members, it has one goal for all: guaranteed commissions for its enterprising members.
12/24/1975
Rucky receptacle: That's what Roger and Kathi Elliot of Unionville have nicknamed the garbage containers they're franchising as environment savers and advertising vehicles.
Rucky receptacle: That's what Roger and Kathi Elliot of Unionville have nicknamed the garbage containers they're franchising as environment savers and advertising vehicles.
9/25/1989
A blend of age and modernity, colonial Faneuil Hall and today's skyscrapers, above, is the daily environment in Boston
A blend of age and modernity, colonial Faneuil Hall and today's skyscrapers, above, is the daily environment in Boston
4/16/1985