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Ice Yachting can truthfully be described as an exciting sport since you skim along at some 70 miles an hour just inches above the surface. Once a dyin(...)
Ice Yachting can truthfully be described as an exciting sport since you skim along at some 70 miles an hour just inches above the surface. Once a dyin(...)

Ice Yachting can truthfully be described as an exciting sport since you skim along at some 70 miles an hour just inches above the surface. Once a dyin(...)

Date2/14/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: Ice Yachting can truthfully be described as an exciting sport since you skim along at some 70 miles an hour just inches above the surface. Once a dying art; it has been revived and you can see yachts in action at nearby Hamilton.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019966F
60-Mph hovecraft skims Toronto Harbor, With Toronto's skyline rising in the background, a 60-mile-an-hour hovercraft skims over the surface of Toronto(...)
60-Mph hovecraft skims Toronto Harbor, With Toronto's skyline rising in the background, a 60-mile-an-hour hovercraft skims over the surface of Toronto(...)
1/31/1972
Colorized photograph of a sailboat in the water in front of a large city.
Yachting, Toronto, Canada
Approximately 1908
Image shows a number of yachts on the lake.
Yachting Toronto Bay
1907
Colorized photograph of many large boats on open water.
Yachting on St. Mary's River, Sault Ste. Marie, Ont.
Approximately 1908
Scooting across the ice of dundas marsh in Hamilton at speeds of up to 60 m
Scooting across the ice of dundas marsh in Hamilton at speeds of up to 60 m
1/29/1972
Starboard and port : the ''Nettie'' along shore
Starboard and port : the ''Nettie'' along shore
1876
Image shows a ship on the lake.
Length 170' Beam 42'; Length of Ladder 80' - length of Spuds 70'; Engine horse power 1750; Diameter of Impellor - 8-feet; Diameter of suction 24-inches; Diameter of discharge 24-inches; Swing 200-feet.
3/27/1930
One of the 50 bulldozers at work to mile clay on top of the dikes, which were a few inches to a foot above the water
One of the 50 bulldozers at work to mile clay on top of the dikes, which were a few inches to a foot above the water
4/22/1974
An event five feet tall, Harry (Bob) Voulgaris, a restaurant owner (right), is fitted for a sports jacket in a new clothing shop restricted to men no taller than five-feet-five inches. Shop owner Lou Brown, left, says short men, generally pay too much for clothes, suffer humiliation in some stores.
An event five feet tall, Harry (Bob) Voulgaris, a restaurant owner (right), is fitted for a sports jacket in a new clothing shop restricted to men no taller than five-feet-five inches. Shop owner Lou Brown, left, says short men, generally pay too much for clothes, suffer humiliation in some stores.
12/29/1977
Angling through the ice. Ice fishing has finally started near Keswick, where the ice on Lake Simcoe is eight inches thick. K. Matys of Toronto takes h(...)
Angling through the ice. Ice fishing has finally started near Keswick, where the ice on Lake Simcoe is eight inches thick. K. Matys of Toronto takes h(...)
1/21/1975
Wheeling Over The Ice, The ice is 15 inches thick in Hamilton harbor, usually enough to keep the harbor police on shore
Wheeling Over The Ice, The ice is 15 inches thick in Hamilton harbor, usually enough to keep the harbor police on shore
2/1/1970
Image shows a tugboat breaking ice for a ship.
Breaking ice six inches thick, the tugboat Bagotville grinds through Toronto harbor as it tows the Goderich to a winter berth at Pier 35. Another tug (...)
1/17/1977