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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(...)

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(...)

Date7/19/1948
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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; hot week-end weather. Ideal summer weather lured huge crowds to all of Toronto's beaches and sent other thousands driving out into the country for picnics and other country activities.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0113865F
Image shows a number of boats on the lake with the Harbour buildings in the background.
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Thousands of vacationers each summer flock to Crystal Beach on Lake Erie to bask on the warm sand, swim in the cool water, and frolic at the amusement centre
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Picture of crowded beach.
Crowded beach is on the lake side of Centre Island
19 July 1948
Fleeing week-end heat, thousands of Torontonians sought relief on the beaches and in the water
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Cooling Crystal Beach was another much sought-after haven from the heat
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Cooling their heels-Although thousands of Metro residents fled the city for summer's last long weekend, thousands more headed for Metro and its progra(...)
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'Windjammer' breezes into Toronto, Norwegian Training Ship Christian Radich, which was featured in film Wind jammer, sits in Toronto bay with one of 8(...)
'Windjammer' breezes into Toronto, Norwegian Training Ship Christian Radich, which was featured in film Wind jammer, sits in Toronto bay with one of 8(...)
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Favorite winter sport for pedestrians in downtown Toronto is to buck the breezes, snow, ice and salt at the corner of Bay and King Sts. This plucky wo(...)
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