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Unable to comprehend the full impact of the disaster that has struck her family and hundreds of others in Cobalt, three-year-old Janice Moore sits pat(...)
Unable to comprehend the full impact of the disaster that has struck her family and hundreds of others in Cobalt, three-year-old Janice Moore sits pat(...)

Unable to comprehend the full impact of the disaster that has struck her family and hundreds of others in Cobalt, three-year-old Janice Moore sits pat(...)

Date5/26/1977
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Original Toronto Star caption: Unable to comprehend the full impact of the disaster that has struck her family and hundreds of others in Cobalt; three-year-old Janice Moore sits patiently in the ashes of her home waiting for her parents. She has found her toy horse that survived the fire that swept the northern Ontario town Monday and draws comfort from it. But little is recognizable to her; aside from that last toy.
GeographyCity, town, townshipCobalt
GeographyRegion or DistrictTimiskaming (Ont. : District)
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
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Photographs
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0000526F
Highrise Evacuated. A policeman carries a boy from a highrise in St. James Town after rain shorted the electrical system and started a fire yesterday. Hundreds were evacuated
Highrise Evacuated. A policeman carries a boy from a highrise in St. James Town after rain shorted the electrical system and started a fire yesterday. Hundreds were evacuated
12/27/1988
A charred trucks sits surrounded by smouldering tires
A charred trucks sits surrounded by smouldering tires
2/13/1990
A dead bird is crumpled at the bottom of a cage as firemen check the ruins of Roy Ivor s Erindale home after it was struck by fire yesterday. Ivor kep(...)
A dead bird is crumpled at the bottom of a cage as firemen check the ruins of Roy Ivor s Erindale home after it was struck by fire yesterday. Ivor kep(...)
12/29/1970
Fire toll: Paramedics rush one of the occupants of a burning apartment building to hospital last night after flames and smoke struck the 26-storey facility housing elderly and disabled people
Fire toll: Paramedics rush one of the occupants of a burning apartment building to hospital last night after flames and smoke struck the 26-storey facility housing elderly and disabled people
3/8/1992
Injured fireman Bernie Baione, struck by flying debris, gets help from an ambulance attendant at the scene of a devastating fire that ripped through t(...)
Injured fireman Bernie Baione, struck by flying debris, gets help from an ambulance attendant at the scene of a devastating fire that ripped through t(...)
5/9/1977
69 horses die in worst-ever Canadian racetrack disaster
69 horses die in worst-ever Canadian racetrack disaster
4/2/1992
Near-disaster
Near-disaster
2/27/1984
Devastated by a $4 Million fire, the town of Cobalt is already taking the first steps toward re-building
Devastated by a $4 Million fire, the town of Cobalt is already taking the first steps toward re-building
5/24/1977
Neat picket pence stands unmarked by the fire in Cobalt yesterday that left the home it guarded and dozens more a pile of smouldering ashes. A residen(...)
Neat picket pence stands unmarked by the fire in Cobalt yesterday that left the home it guarded and dozens more a pile of smouldering ashes. A residen(...)
5/24/1977
'I remember all the good times,' Margaret Shepherd said as she returned to Cobalt to view the ashes of the house in which she was born
'I remember all the good times,' Margaret Shepherd said as she returned to Cobalt to view the ashes of the house in which she was born
5/26/1977
Heart of Cobalt lies in ruins after fire yesterday destroyed up to 150 buildings, leaving about 400 people homeless
Heart of Cobalt lies in ruins after fire yesterday destroyed up to 150 buildings, leaving about 400 people homeless
5/23/1977
Money was already begun pouring in to aid Cobalt residents, including a $7,000 cheque from a Canadian Legion convention in London, Ont. Local mines ha(...)
Money was already begun pouring in to aid Cobalt residents, including a $7,000 cheque from a Canadian Legion convention in London, Ont. Local mines ha(...)
5/25/1977