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House for sale--for $1.25 million. A house with eight time the floor area of the average house, set on 200 acres in the Uxbridge Hills, is for sale - (...)
House for sale--for $1.25 million. A house with eight time the floor area of the average house, set on 200 acres in the Uxbridge Hills, is for sale - (...)

House for sale--for $1.25 million. A house with eight time the floor area of the average house, set on 200 acres in the Uxbridge Hills, is for sale - (...)

Date1/27/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: House for sale--for $1.25 million. A house with eight time the floor area of the average house, set on 200 acres in the Uxbridge Hills, is for sale - at an asking price of $1.25 million. It wa built three years ago by retaired fruit farmer Bruce Stephens and his wife, Gwen, who find it too big now that their children are grown. They sit (below) in the kitchen-recreation room. The property holds a heated horse barn with 32 stalls, five paddocks, an indoor riding arena, outdoor pool and a guest house.
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Veteran Merchandiser Chuck Drury is heading an ambitious expansion in the catalogue showroom business by Shop-Rite, a division of Hudson's Bay Co. Sho-Rite will open 30 sales rooms next month, several in the Toronto area. More units under banners of Woolco, Cardinal and Consumers Distributing will push sales over $200 million.
Veteran Merchandiser Chuck Drury is heading an ambitious expansion in the catalogue showroom business by Shop-Rite, a division of Hudson's Bay Co. Sho-Rite will open 30 sales rooms next month, several in the Toronto area. More units under banners of Woolco, Cardinal and Consumers Distributing will push sales over $200 million.
8/29/1973
Acres of land for sale
Acres of land for sale
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Ready to burn: Paul Bunyan Munsterman displays part of the five acres of firewood he has for sale
Ready to burn: Paul Bunyan Munsterman displays part of the five acres of firewood he has for sale
9/18/1986
Brent Chambers: The vice-president of Northwestern is the inspiration behind the plan to build a $17.4-million emergency-ambulatory centre, and an eight-storey, 200-unit apartment building worth $20-$25 million on the hospital's 22-acre site at Keele St. and Eglinton Ave.
Brent Chambers: The vice-president of Northwestern is the inspiration behind the plan to build a $17.4-million emergency-ambulatory centre, and an eight-storey, 200-unit apartment building worth $20-$25 million on the hospital's 22-acre site at Keele St. and Eglinton Ave.
2/15/1989
Vanier - inmates walk freely about grounds between cottages - on their way to supper with one of the cottages that house inmates behind. - 96 acres of land
Vanier - inmates walk freely about grounds between cottages - on their way to supper with one of the cottages that house inmates behind. - 96 acres of land
3/15/1995
The donors: Patricia and Fred Benson, of Campbellville, donated this century-old stone house and 43 hectares (107 acres) of rolling farmland to the Mennonite relief committee after watching a television program in November about the famine and drought in Ethiopia.
The donors: Patricia and Fred Benson, of Campbellville, donated this century-old stone house and 43 hectares (107 acres) of rolling farmland to the Mennonite relief committee after watching a television program in November about the famine and drought in Ethiopia.
1/15/1985
The donors: Patricia and Fred Benson, of Campbellville, donated this century-old stone house and 43 hectares (107 acres) of rolling farmland to the Mennonite relief committee after watching a televison program in November about the famine and drought in Ethiopia.
The donors: Patricia and Fred Benson, of Campbellville, donated this century-old stone house and 43 hectares (107 acres) of rolling farmland to the Mennonite relief committee after watching a televison program in November about the famine and drought in Ethiopia.
12/16/1984
Plan of 200 acres in the township of Crowland in Upper Canada The property of the Honble D
Plan of 200 acres in the township of Crowland in Upper Canada The property of the Honble D
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Plan of 200 acres in the township of Charlotteville in Upper Canada the property of Mrs
Plan of 200 acres in the township of Charlotteville in Upper Canada the property of Mrs
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Farm for rent: Sale and rent signs on farms are as high as an elephant's eye in rural areas around Metro, where cornfields and dairy farms are disappearing under an advancing wave of houses
Farm for rent: Sale and rent signs on farms are as high as an elephant's eye in rural areas around Metro, where cornfields and dairy farms are disappearing under an advancing wave of houses
11/3/1987
The Belcourt family, Patricia, Marc, and children Lisa, 3, and Stephen, 7-stand outside their house in West Hill which they sold for $54,000, only to find 10 days later it had been resold for $63,000. Belcourt has asked the Supreme Court of Ontario to cancel the first sale and refund the $2,700 real estate commission. They have been offered the $9,000 and the commission out of court.
The Belcourt family, Patricia, Marc, and children Lisa, 3, and Stephen, 7-stand outside their house in West Hill which they sold for $54,000, only to find 10 days later it had been resold for $63,000. Belcourt has asked the Supreme Court of Ontario to cancel the first sale and refund the $2,700 real estate commission. They have been offered the $9,000 and the commission out of court.
7/17/1973
Treasure Trove: Sales agent Joanne Haliman and quarry chief Beven Ratcliffe stand in the Adair Marble Quarry, as a worker fits marble blocks on to a house in Torono's luxury Castle Hill development
Treasure Trove: Sales agent Joanne Haliman and quarry chief Beven Ratcliffe stand in the Adair Marble Quarry, as a worker fits marble blocks on to a house in Torono's luxury Castle Hill development
6/25/1990