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A ship docks at Toronto, above, a rare happening these days as dock workers find their work days shrinking as the market closes and machinery takes ov(...)
A ship docks at Toronto, above, a rare happening these days as dock workers find their work days shrinking as the market closes and machinery takes ov(...)

A ship docks at Toronto, above, a rare happening these days as dock workers find their work days shrinking as the market closes and machinery takes ov(...)

Date10/18/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: A ship docks at Toronto; above; a rare happening these days as dock workers find their work days shrinking as the market closes and machinery takes over a lot of the tasks. Just 20 years ago; a ship would have been unloaded piece by piece; today; cranes can handle 20 times the load.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0112799F
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