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Workmen uncover human remains on bloor St

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Workmen uncover human remains on bloor St

Date5/20/1929

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Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

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Original Toronto Star caption: Workmen uncover human remains on bloor St. While excavating at 38 Bloor St. W. yesterday afternoon workmen unearthed the remains of a human being. Old residents in the vicinity declare that the premises upon which the bones were found was at one time a potter's field and that about 50 years ago; following a cholera epidemic; many bodies were hastily interred at that spot. The photograph here shows the hole from which the remains were taken. In the absence of identification the bones were re-interred.

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