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Hong Kong Harbor is a lively, bustling place full of sails and color and animation, with the world's best tourist city sprawling over the waterside hi(...)
Hong Kong Harbor is a lively, bustling place full of sails and color and animation, with the world's best tourist city sprawling over the waterside hi(...)

Hong Kong Harbor is a lively, bustling place full of sails and color and animation, with the world's best tourist city sprawling over the waterside hi(...)

Date4/1/1972
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Original Toronto Star caption: Hong Kong Harbor is a lively; bustling place full of sails and color and animation; with the world's best tourist city sprawling over the waterside hills as a backdrop. Hong Kong has everything a tourist might want - at a bargain.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0117463F
Top: Hong Kong's floating towns, where people live and die at sea, is a feature of the world's most spectacular city and its harbor
Top: Hong Kong's floating towns, where people live and die at sea, is a feature of the world's most spectacular city and its harbor
12/28/1974
Hong Kong Harbor, with its fancy ferries and tour boats and its exotic, though not so fancy, junks, is a big draw for tourists, whose numbers increase(...)
Hong Kong Harbor, with its fancy ferries and tour boats and its exotic, though not so fancy, junks, is a big draw for tourists, whose numbers increase(...)
4/1/1972
Hong Kong streets are a fascination in themselves, bustling, alive, bright with signs and stalls and stores and sometimes you'll find some strange mix(...)
Hong Kong streets are a fascination in themselves, bustling, alive, bright with signs and stalls and stores and sometimes you'll find some strange mix(...)
3/26/1976
The Norwegian Windjammer Christian Radich towers over Arthur Langley, 25, as he sails tiny windsurfer in Toronto Harbor
The Norwegian Windjammer Christian Radich towers over Arthur Langley, 25, as he sails tiny windsurfer in Toronto Harbor
8/31/1976
Hong Kong Harbor is one of the busiest in the world, with ships coming and going constantly
Hong Kong Harbor is one of the busiest in the world, with ships coming and going constantly
4/1/1972
Reminder of the days of sail, Into Toronto harbor sails 60-foot brigantine St
Reminder of the days of sail, Into Toronto harbor sails 60-foot brigantine St
8/30/1962
In contrast to Hong Kong's busy harbor, visitors can escape to the New Territories, which separates Hong Kong from China
In contrast to Hong Kong's busy harbor, visitors can escape to the New Territories, which separates Hong Kong from China
5/30/1987
Barrelling over a trusting friend, World champion skating jumper Yvon Jolien sails over Guy Boudreault at Harbourfront's Winterfest '87 yesterday. The(...)
Barrelling over a trusting friend, World champion skating jumper Yvon Jolien sails over Guy Boudreault at Harbourfront's Winterfest '87 yesterday. The(...)
1/24/1987
Lake Ontario beauty sails past, Under full sail, the 60-foot brigantine Playfair passes Toronto Island's Western Gap with 25 students aboard. The twin(...)
Lake Ontario beauty sails past, Under full sail, the 60-foot brigantine Playfair passes Toronto Island's Western Gap with 25 students aboard. The twin(...)
6/10/1975
Construction on new Ferry Dock sails on smoothly, Pushing out into the waters of Toronto Harbor at the foot of Yonge St
Construction on new Ferry Dock sails on smoothly, Pushing out into the waters of Toronto Harbor at the foot of Yonge St
8/23/1971
A mirror on Lake Ontario, Small sailboats ran out of wind off Bronte Harbor, and their sails idly slapping from side to side cast long, wavy reflectio(...)
A mirror on Lake Ontario, Small sailboats ran out of wind off Bronte Harbor, and their sails idly slapping from side to side cast long, wavy reflectio(...)
6/14/1977
Mobile Home, The royal yacht Britannia sails into Toronto harbor this morning to await the Prince and Princess of Wales and their two sons who arrive in Toronto on wednesday
Mobile Home, The royal yacht Britannia sails into Toronto harbor this morning to await the Prince and Princess of Wales and their two sons who arrive in Toronto on wednesday
10/22/1991