Skip to main content
Digital Archive Toronto Public Library Homepage
A disaster Area is how Jack Moore describes the scene down the Lake Ontario shoreline from his Squires Beach home in Pickering yesterday. [Incomplete]
A disaster Area is how Jack Moore describes the scene down the Lake Ontario shoreline from his Squires Beach home in Pickering yesterday. [Incomplete]

A disaster Area is how Jack Moore describes the scene down the Lake Ontario shoreline from his Squires Beach home in Pickering yesterday. [Incomplete]

Date4/10/1973
Names
(photographer)
FormatPicture
Notes
Original Toronto Star caption: A disaster Area is how Jack Moore describes the scene down the Lake Ontario shoreline from his Squires Beach home in Pickering yesterday. [Incomplete]
Subject
GeographyCity, town, townshipPickering
GeographyRegion or DistrictDurham (Ont. : Regional municipality)
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
Medium
Language
ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0007208F
Surrounded by water following the recent storm and flooding along the Lake Erie shoreline, is this farm in the small community of Erieau, south of Chatham. [Incomplete]
Surrounded by water following the recent storm and flooding along the Lake Erie shoreline, is this farm in the small community of Erieau, south of Chatham. [Incomplete]
4/11/1973
Behind Sandbags: Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hibbard watch Lake Ontario hit the Frenchman's Bay shoreline yesterday as sandbags protect their home
Behind Sandbags: Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hibbard watch Lake Ontario hit the Frenchman's Bay shoreline yesterday as sandbags protect their home
4/9/1973
Peddling along: Steve Brittain and Joe Hill find it's easier to get around the parking lot at Moodie's Motor Inn in the Pickering area in a pedal-boat than in a car
Peddling along: Steve Brittain and Joe Hill find it's easier to get around the parking lot at Moodie's Motor Inn in the Pickering area in a pedal-boat than in a car
2/14/1984
Flood waters in St. Clair Beach forced this resident into hip waders to leave her home with her dog early Saturday morning. [Incomplete]
Flood waters in St. Clair Beach forced this resident into hip waders to leave her home with her dog early Saturday morning. [Incomplete]
3/17/1973
Burlington Firemen worked yesterday evacuating houses along the Beach Strip area, as the homeswere being threatened by 10- to 15-foot-high waves which(...)
Burlington Firemen worked yesterday evacuating houses along the Beach Strip area, as the homeswere being threatened by 10- to 15-foot-high waves which(...)
4/9/1973
Main street -- St. Clair Beach, With his car in a ditch a flood victim makes his way along Riverside Drive, the main street in St. Clair Beach about 15 miles east of Windsor
Main street -- St. Clair Beach, With his car in a ditch a flood victim makes his way along Riverside Drive, the main street in St. Clair Beach about 15 miles east of Windsor
3/17/1973
First municipally owned bridge to be replaced since Friday night's destructive floods has been erected over the Don river on John St., Thornhill. [Incomplete]
First municipally owned bridge to be replaced since Friday night's destructive floods has been erected over the Don river on John St., Thornhill. [Incomplete]
10/21/1954
Fireman James Britton at No. 3 firehall of the Etobicoke fire department at 280 Burnhamthorpe Road, just west of Kipling. [Incomplete]
Fireman James Britton at No. 3 firehall of the Etobicoke fire department at 280 Burnhamthorpe Road, just west of Kipling. [Incomplete]
10/3/1979
Riding to safety in an improvised breeches buoy, Robin Thompson, three, was the first to be rescued by this method in the Long Branch flood. [Incomplete]
Riding to safety in an improvised breeches buoy, Robin Thompson, three, was the first to be rescued by this method in the Long Branch flood. [Incomplete]
3/17/1948
These cottages and Boathouses along the north shore of Lake Erie near Erieau, are among many which were badly damaged as a result of the recent storm. [Incomplete]
These cottages and Boathouses along the north shore of Lake Erie near Erieau, are among many which were badly damaged as a result of the recent storm. [Incomplete]
4/11/1973
Image shows a part of the street under the bridge flooded with a car floating around.
Six feet of icy water covers Summerhill underpass on Yonge St. after 36-inch watermain burst yesterday afternoon. One automobile was trapped, but driver escaped before it was submerged completely. [Incomplete]
1/30/1977
The Rain-swollen credit river engulfs Memorial park in Streetsville, where it swept away four footbridges, on of them where the youths are standing. [Incomplete]
The Rain-swollen credit river engulfs Memorial park in Streetsville, where it swept away four footbridges, on of them where the youths are standing. [Incomplete]
1/27/1973