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Huge waterfront crane. This huge crane is being assembled at the new Torport container distribution centre on Toronto's waterfront. Built in Dusseldor(...)
Huge waterfront crane. This huge crane is being assembled at the new Torport container distribution centre on Toronto's waterfront. Built in Dusseldor(...)

Huge waterfront crane. This huge crane is being assembled at the new Torport container distribution centre on Toronto's waterfront. Built in Dusseldor(...)

Date5/31/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: Huge waterfront crane. This huge crane is being assembled at the new Torport container distribution centre on Toronto's waterfront. Built in Dusseldorf; Germany; it has a reach of 82 feet and can lift containers up to 26 tons. It is only one of its kind in world.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0005172F
Container day in toronto. Yesterday was container day in Toronto featuring the opening of the new marine container distribution centre, Torport, on Ch(...)
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Image shows a few people watching a container crane in operation.
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Weaving a cobweb dome at Ontario place, Workmen hang high in the lattice work of geodesic aluminum dome they are building to roof the theatre at Ontario Place on Toronto's waterfront
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2011
High wire heroics. Firefighters use a construction crane to lower an injured worker to safety yesterday from a stage being built at Harbourfront. The (...)
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