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. . .In Smokestack Debate, Voting in favor of a 450-foot chimney in the College and University area to serve a huge hospital complex are, from left, C(...)
. . .In Smokestack Debate, Voting in favor of a 450-foot chimney in the College and University area to serve a huge hospital complex are, from left, C(...)

. . .In Smokestack Debate, Voting in favor of a 450-foot chimney in the College and University area to serve a huge hospital complex are, from left, C(...)

Date4/26/1968
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Original Toronto Star caption: . . .In Smokestack Debate; Voting in favor of a 450-foot chimney in the College and University area to serve a huge hospital complex are; from left; Controllers Allan Lamport; June Marks and Margaret Campbell.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0111228F
Soaring Smokestack superimposed here shows how the proposed 700-foot chimney Toronto Hydro wants to build at a cost of $1,000,000 at its Pearl St. ste(...)
Soaring Smokestack superimposed here shows how the proposed 700-foot chimney Toronto Hydro wants to build at a cost of $1,000,000 at its Pearl St. ste(...)
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6/7/1973
Greenpeacers up a stack. Climbers Steve Loper (left) of Chicago and Kenn Hollis of Toronto today scaled the 250-foot smokestack at Metro's Highland Cr(...)
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6/5/1986
Tall tale: Greenpeacers take their acid-rain protest to the top - of a huge smokestack at the Lakeview coal-fired generating station
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11/23/1967
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7/12/1971
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8/9/1988
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8/3/1972
Giving up smoking. A wrecker's ball weighing 1,500 pounds (680 kilograms) made short work yesterday of a 180-foot (60-metre) brick smokestack at the s(...)
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Don't Take a Chance: Huge flag hung by students on a downtown Brampton building exhorts residents not to risk voting No in Monday's constitutional referendum
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