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Canadaïs smallest incorporated town, Bala has about 370 year-round residents but summer population is quoted as between 5,000 and 15,000
Canadaïs smallest incorporated town, Bala has about 370 year-round residents but summer population is quoted as between 5,000 and 15,000

Canadaïs smallest incorporated town, Bala has about 370 year-round residents but summer population is quoted as between 5,000 and 15,000

Date2/28/1950
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Original Toronto Star caption: Most stores are closed for the winter. This is the main street. Bala People's Building committee is sponsoring drive for funds to erect a community centre to replace the town hall destroyed by fire in 1942.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
Call Number / Accession NumberTS-2-124-GO-073
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Muskoka Lakes (Ont. : Township)
Neighbourhood:Bala (Muskoka Lakes, Ontario)
Province or state:Ontario
Region or district:Muskoka (Ont. : District municipality)
Reactivated à The NRX reactor at Canadaïs atomic plant at Chalk River, Ontario, has been reactivated, a little more than a year after it broke down
Reactivated à The NRX reactor at Canadaïs atomic plant at Chalk River, Ontario, has been reactivated, a little more than a year after it broke down
1954-02
The town of Beeton is buzzing with plans these days as it prepares to honor its founder, David Allan Jones, Canadaïs first commercial beekeeper
The town of Beeton is buzzing with plans these days as it prepares to honor its founder, David Allan Jones, Canadaïs first commercial beekeeper
5/29/1957
Atomic program started here à Canadaïs first nuclear reaction took place 20 years ago in this ZEEP reactor at Chalk River
Atomic program started here à Canadaïs first nuclear reaction took place 20 years ago in this ZEEP reactor at Chalk River
1965-09
On the way: workers at Chalk River, Canadaïs only controlled nuclear waste dump site, shovel radioactive waste, removed from Port Hope several years ago, down special containers
On the way: workers at Chalk River, Canadaïs only controlled nuclear waste dump site, shovel radioactive waste, removed from Port Hope several years ago, down special containers
7/30/1984
MYSTERY OF POWER à Here is the first photograph ever made public of Canadaïs celebrated Chalk River Atomic Pile
MYSTERY OF POWER à Here is the first photograph ever made public of Canadaïs celebrated Chalk River Atomic Pile
1950-09
Workers of Canadaïs National Research Council $20,000,000 atomic energy plant at Chalk River, Ontario, Canada, walk to their jobs at the plant where new avenues in the realm of physical, chemical and biological research have been opened.
Workers of Canadaïs National Research Council $20,000,000 atomic energy plant at Chalk River, Ontario, Canada, walk to their jobs at the plant where new avenues in the realm of physical, chemical and biological research have been opened.
1948-01
Protective clothing à Plastic suits and respirators are used to protect workers at Canadaïs Chalk River, Ontario, atomic plant from deadly radioactivity
Protective clothing à Plastic suits and respirators are used to protect workers at Canadaïs Chalk River, Ontario, atomic plant from deadly radioactivity
1954-03
Norfolk War Memorial. Beautiful Carillon Tower which stands in town of Simcoe, Ontario. Norfolk, in area and population one of the smallest counties o(...)
Norfolk War Memorial. Beautiful Carillon Tower which stands in town of Simcoe, Ontario. Norfolk, in area and population one of the smallest counties o(...)
6/20/1925
Parting gift: Retiring postman Bob Cooper holds a miniature mailbox filled with money given to him by residents on his route in the Keele St. Eglinton Ave. area on the weekend. About 75 neighbors turned out for the retirement party for Cooper, who has a delivered their mail for 32 years.
Parting gift: Retiring postman Bob Cooper holds a miniature mailbox filled with money given to him by residents on his route in the Keele St. Eglinton Ave. area on the weekend. About 75 neighbors turned out for the retirement party for Cooper, who has a delivered their mail for 32 years.
4/11/1987
O Canada, with the roar of jet engines incorporated into the tape, was played last night at a meeting of 2,000 residents of Stouffville who oppose the(...)
O Canada, with the roar of jet engines incorporated into the tape, was played last night at a meeting of 2,000 residents of Stouffville who oppose the(...)
2/13/1974
Hollcopter flight instructor Peter Crry pilots a Robinson R22 overr the Toronto waterfront. Curry, who has logged a lengthey 10,000 flying homourse in his career, has been beachig at toronto Island Airport of about years. Total cost to earna private helicopter licence is about $15,000 triple the cost in other aircraft.
Hollcopter flight instructor Peter Crry pilots a Robinson R22 overr the Toronto waterfront. Curry, who has logged a lengthey 10,000 flying homourse in his career, has been beachig at toronto Island Airport of about years. Total cost to earna private helicopter licence is about $15,000 triple the cost in other aircraft.
8/21/1990
V. C. Dale, a streetville resident, stands in one of the town's residential sections. The propsed two-tier regionals system in Peel county does not take account of the population growth for the next 25 years in a way which will accomodate the various life style required by the inhabitants, he says in an accompanying letter, below.
V. C. Dale, a streetville resident, stands in one of the town's residential sections. The propsed two-tier regionals system in Peel county does not take account of the population growth for the next 25 years in a way which will accomodate the various life style required by the inhabitants, he says in an accompanying letter, below.
4/27/1973