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Waiting for Love, Sun, and sound, which is what a heavy advertising campaign has told them to expect, thousands of young people - mostly from the U.S.(...)
Waiting for Love, Sun, and sound, which is what a heavy advertising campaign has told them to expect, thousands of young people - mostly from the U.S.(...)

Waiting for Love, Sun, and sound, which is what a heavy advertising campaign has told them to expect, thousands of young people - mostly from the U.S.(...)

Date8/7/1970
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Original Toronto Star caption: Waiting for Love; Sun; and sound; which is what a heavy advertising campaign has told them to expect; thousands of young people - mostly from the U.S. - sprawl on the grass at Mosport; 40 miles northeast of Toronto; before today's opening of Strawberry Fields festival. A bid by provincial officials for an injunction against the festival was refused yesterday by the Supreme Court of Ontario.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0103095F
Waiting for a festival at Mosport, which may or may not get started, a group of young people stand beside their tent near a U.S. flag that is flown up(...)
Waiting for a festival at Mosport, which may or may not get started, a group of young people stand beside their tent near a U.S. flag that is flown up(...)
8/5/1970
This is the poster that has been drawing thousands of young people from the U
This is the poster that has been drawing thousands of young people from the U
8/6/1970
Enjoying the sun fully, young people attending the Mosport Strawberry Fields rock festival bask in one of the wooded glens on the 500-acre property. E(...)
Enjoying the sun fully, young people attending the Mosport Strawberry Fields rock festival bask in one of the wooded glens on the 500-acre property. E(...)
8/9/1970
Transients from the U.S. abused drug laws without fear
Transients from the U.S. abused drug laws without fear
8/10/1970
Through the mists of mosport a young couple walk past cars and trailers as the sun rises today over the site of the Strawberry Fields festival. Behind(...)
Through the mists of mosport a young couple walk past cars and trailers as the sun rises today over the site of the Strawberry Fields festival. Behind(...)
8/7/1970
People, people everywhere, and most of them were having a great time out at Mosport Park on the weekend
People, people everywhere, and most of them were having a great time out at Mosport Park on the weekend
8/28/1978
Unidentified but obviously happy fans of bluegrass music don't seem to mind the mud that was churned up Saturday after Friday's heavy rain at the Wate(...)
Unidentified but obviously happy fans of bluegrass music don't seem to mind the mud that was churned up Saturday after Friday's heavy rain at the Wate(...)
7/17/1977
The sound of massed music. It was called the Sound Orgy of the Year and there was certainly lots of it resounding through Coliseum Arena of Exhibition(...)
The sound of massed music. It was called the Sound Orgy of the Year and there was certainly lots of it resounding through Coliseum Arena of Exhibition(...)
1/19/1972
Promised a place for the night, these rock concert fans, most of them from the United States, camped last night in parking lot at Queen's Quay and Yon(...)
Promised a place for the night, these rock concert fans, most of them from the United States, camped last night in parking lot at Queen's Quay and Yon(...)
7/12/1974
The sounds of the West Indies reverberated through the corridors of the Royal York Hotel Saturday night, and the color of those sunny isles was captur(...)
The sounds of the West Indies reverberated through the corridors of the Royal York Hotel Saturday night, and the color of those sunny isles was captur(...)
8/4/1974
A Disenchanted rock fan, 11-month-old Chris Blakely obviously doesn't dig the sound at the Mosport rock festival as he rides in a papoose sling on the(...)
A Disenchanted rock fan, 11-month-old Chris Blakely obviously doesn't dig the sound at the Mosport rock festival as he rides in a papoose sling on the(...)
8/8/1970
Music moved the crowds, whether to the sounds of an impromptu chairtop whistler or to the beat of a more professional band
Music moved the crowds, whether to the sounds of an impromptu chairtop whistler or to the beat of a more professional band
8/4/1986