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Erosion has bitten deeply into the Scarboro Bluffs, causing thousands of tons of clay to tumble down the slope to the receding beach lines. Pictured h(...)
Erosion has bitten deeply into the Scarboro Bluffs, causing thousands of tons of clay to tumble down the slope to the receding beach lines. Pictured h(...)

Erosion has bitten deeply into the Scarboro Bluffs, causing thousands of tons of clay to tumble down the slope to the receding beach lines. Pictured h(...)

Date5/1/1946
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Original Toronto Star caption: Erosion has bitten deeply into the Scarboro Bluffs, causing thousands of tons of clay to tumble down the slope to the receding beach lines. Pictured here is what was once a road. It is now blocked off to vehicles and visitors must walk, not ride, to bluff's edge
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0107961F
When the earth shook and the face of the American falls gave way sending thousands of tons of rock crashing down through the heavy mist into the Niaga(...)
When the earth shook and the face of the American falls gave way sending thousands of tons of rock crashing down through the heavy mist into the Niaga(...)
9/21/1946
Homes should not have been permitted along top of Scarborough bluffs, reader says in letter below, since erosion is so unpredictable. He suggests a st(...)
Homes should not have been permitted along top of Scarborough bluffs, reader says in letter below, since erosion is so unpredictable. He suggests a st(...)
6/22/1976
After sliding 150 feet down icy Scarboro Bluffs to go and get aid for two 13-year-old girl friends trapped on the cliffs, Christine Sherrington nurses(...)
After sliding 150 feet down icy Scarboro Bluffs to go and get aid for two 13-year-old girl friends trapped on the cliffs, Christine Sherrington nurses(...)
3/9/1972
Collecting Tin cans is a waste of time until we use hundreds of abandoned cars which will provide thousands of tons of scrap metal, according to Jack (...)
Collecting Tin cans is a waste of time until we use hundreds of abandoned cars which will provide thousands of tons of scrap metal, according to Jack (...)
6/11/1976
Tons of tomes up for sale. Deborah Schlow lugs a load of books to Trinity College's Friends of the Library annual book sale. thousands of books at bar(...)
Tons of tomes up for sale. Deborah Schlow lugs a load of books to Trinity College's Friends of the Library annual book sale. thousands of books at bar(...)
10/19/1988
Four survivors of the cave-in disaster at Beattie Gold Mines when four men died under tons of clay, D
Four survivors of the cave-in disaster at Beattie Gold Mines when four men died under tons of clay, D
7/22/1946
Scarboro Bluffs subdivision plan of subdivision, part of lot 26, con. B., in the Township of Scarboro
Scarboro Bluffs subdivision plan of subdivision, part of lot 26, con. B., in the Township of Scarboro
Approximately 1912
More than 100 feet of Harold Griffin's backyard atop the Scarborough Bluffs has cascaded down into Lake Ontario in the 32 years he's lived there. He's(...)
More than 100 feet of Harold Griffin's backyard atop the Scarborough Bluffs has cascaded down into Lake Ontario in the 32 years he's lived there. He's(...)
11/4/1974
Crowded beach is on the lake side of Centre Island, a popular spot as Toronto's thousands sought cooling breezes and water as they enjoyed the line, h(...)
Crowded beach is on the lake side of Centre Island, a popular spot as Toronto's thousands sought cooling breezes and water as they enjoyed the line, h(...)
7/19/1948
Black and white shot of an air plane flying across a field from the perspective of the wings.
Scarboro Bluffs looking west, Toronto, Ont. From an aeroplane
1919
Scarboro Bluffs near Toronto
Scarboro Bluffs near Toronto
1910
Colorized photograph of a cliff taken from the beach.
Scarboro' Bluffs, Toronto, Canada
Approximately 1925