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Perhaps the biggest white oak tree in southern Ontario is doomed to destruction to make way for the Spadina Expressway, John Rea, who has helped care (...)
Perhaps the biggest white oak tree in southern Ontario is doomed to destruction to make way for the Spadina Expressway, John Rea, who has helped care (...)

Perhaps the biggest white oak tree in southern Ontario is doomed to destruction to make way for the Spadina Expressway, John Rea, who has helped care (...)

Date8/25/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Perhaps the biggest white oak tree in southern Ontario is doomed to destruction to make way for the Spadina Expressway; John Rea; who has helped care for it for 37 years; also loses his house to the road.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0115163F
Circus, elephants, on way to Dufferin Park Race Track, perhaps on Brock Avenue
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1920 circa
Pushing southward into heart of Metro, despite protests by many residents along its proposed route, the Spadina Expressway has now been completed as f(...)
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On way out? Mike Nykoluk has the spectre of five predecessors staring over his shoulder, perhaps in sympathy at his plight, failure to motivate an exp(...)
2/10/1984
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Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Streets and Expressways - Spadina - Aerial View
Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Streets and Expressways - Spadina - Aerial View
2/4/1985
Up in air: That picture of the Spadina expressway interchange with Highway 401 doesn't show the fumes and frayed tempers of rush-hour as cars head downtown
Up in air: That picture of the Spadina expressway interchange with Highway 401 doesn't show the fumes and frayed tempers of rush-hour as cars head downtown
9/9/1981
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Hey, don't be so nosey!. If all this wet, soggy weather has pushed you down in the dumps, perhaps a visit to the Toronto Humane Society will help you (...)
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Down in the dumps: Veteran defenceman Brad Marsh takes a break during yesterday's Leaf practice at the Gardens, perhaps contemplating why coach Tom Watt has used him so infrequently of late
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Perhaps few at a glance can spot the gypsy in this beauty is none other than Gypsy Rose Lee of burlesque of literary fame, too, for she has published a best-selling book
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Paul Brian and Cathy Filanowski are among the Happiest Children is Islington, Brian won Disneyland trip, but he's only three so one of the other two, or perhaps both, will make the journey
Paul Brian and Cathy Filanowski are among the Happiest Children is Islington, Brian won Disneyland trip, but he's only three so one of the other two, or perhaps both, will make the journey
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