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Sleds and planes are the best way to get around the barren North
Sleds and planes are the best way to get around the barren North

Sleds and planes are the best way to get around the barren North

Date8/30/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Sleds and planes are the best way to get around the barren North
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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_0105525F
Joe La Flamme, an expert on Canadian sled dogs, has used wolves in harness pulling his sleds
Joe La Flamme, an expert on Canadian sled dogs, has used wolves in harness pulling his sleds
1/13/1940
Flat out on luge run, club instructor Bjorn Iversen demonstrates how to achieve top speed on the racing sleds that can reach 80 m.p.h. on Olympic stan(...)
Flat out on luge run, club instructor Bjorn Iversen demonstrates how to achieve top speed on the racing sleds that can reach 80 m.p.h. on Olympic stan(...)
12/21/1976
The dogs of Fort hope have not inherited the skills of old like pulling sleds
The dogs of Fort hope have not inherited the skills of old like pulling sleds
2/13/1976
Lots of guns were left out like this, and boats are carried on sleds by seal hunters who go out to the floe edge, in Pangnirtung
Lots of guns were left out like this, and boats are carried on sleds by seal hunters who go out to the floe edge, in Pangnirtung
12/20/1977
Two big winners in the best-of-everything stakes are Adnan Khashoggi, top, in one of his private planes, and Malcolm Forbes, owner of Forbes magazine (...)
Two big winners in the best-of-everything stakes are Adnan Khashoggi, top, in one of his private planes, and Malcolm Forbes, owner of Forbes magazine (...)
10/21/1984
Arriving in Toronto for a brief stopover between planes on her way to Winnipeg, Princess Margaret shakes hands with Ontario Lieutenant-Governor W. Ros(...)
Arriving in Toronto for a brief stopover between planes on her way to Winnipeg, Princess Margaret shakes hands with Ontario Lieutenant-Governor W. Ros(...)
9/23/1971
Crown Prince Harald, 5, heir to the throne of Norway, whips the covering off a new elementary training plane at Little Norway. Five of the planes were(...)
Crown Prince Harald, 5, heir to the throne of Norway, whips the covering off a new elementary training plane at Little Norway. Five of the planes were(...)
9/26/1942
Urging huskies to the finish. It's mush mush all the way, as the dog sled teams of Bruce Facini, left, and Anthony Terpstra finish an eight kilometre (...)
Urging huskies to the finish. It's mush mush all the way, as the dog sled teams of Bruce Facini, left, and Anthony Terpstra finish an eight kilometre (...)
1/12/1985
Urging huskies to the finish. it's mush mush all the way, as the dog sled teams of Bruce Facini, left, and Anthony Terpstra finish an eight kilometre (...)
Urging huskies to the finish. it's mush mush all the way, as the dog sled teams of Bruce Facini, left, and Anthony Terpstra finish an eight kilometre (...)
1/12/1985
With a kick Pierre Trudeau helps his dog powered sled get started at Pelly Bay, N
With a kick Pierre Trudeau helps his dog powered sled get started at Pelly Bay, N
3/13/1970
The Davis ditch, the barren site of the Spadina Expressway that Premier William Davis stopped three years ago, was examined today by Davis and North Y(...)
The Davis ditch, the barren site of the Spadina Expressway that Premier William Davis stopped three years ago, was examined today by Davis and North Y(...)
6/11/1974
A quilt for a subway. Believed by its creator to be largest ship in North America, this 30-by-7-foot work, called Barren Ground Caribou, will be hung (...)
A quilt for a subway. Believed by its creator to be largest ship in North America, this 30-by-7-foot work, called Barren Ground Caribou, will be hung (...)
10/19/1977