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Bailing out
Bailing out

Bailing out

Date3/8/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Bailing out: Alex Berger finds it's a losing battle trying to stay ahead of a flooding basement with a bucket.The ice-blocked Credit River flooded basements in about 20 Churchville homes.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0007294F
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Halton Hills
Geograhical feature:Credit River (Ont.)
Neighbourhood:Churchville (Halton Hills, Ontario)
Province or state:Ontario
Region or district:Halton (Ont. : Regional municipality)
Jack Phillips Swam Humeer to Safety, I think Road washed out from Under Us volunteer Fireman
Jack Phillips Swam Humeer to Safety, I think Road washed out from Under Us volunteer Fireman
10/16/1954
Town called Hope: One of Port Hope's hundreds of cleanup volunteers mans a bucket to bail mud and slush out of store basements in the town's flood ravaged business district
Town called Hope: One of Port Hope's hundreds of cleanup volunteers mans a bucket to bail mud and slush out of store basements in the town's flood ravaged business district
3/23/1980
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3/22/1980
Some lost everything: Huddled on mattresses at the old residential school in Fort Albany, homeless refugees from the flooded-out Indian village of Kashechewan wonder about their fate
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4/26/1976
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4/26/1976
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6/25/1972
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6/12/1972
Lighting flares: Police Constable Bruce Clark from Central Traffic puts out another flare to steer the southbound Parkway traffic through to the Bayview/Bloor exit
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9/10/1986
Cars piled on top of each other at a washed out bridge near Mt
Cars piled on top of each other at a washed out bridge near Mt
6/25/1972
Picture of two men standing on section of washed out lake boardwalk with houses on left. 
At Toronto Island, a 100 foot stretch of boardwalk is washed out.
15 April 1952
Man standing next to a notice of development for flood plain lands, Humber Valley Conservation Authority
Man standing next to a notice of development for flood plain lands, Humber Valley Conservation Authority
1950
Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto Works Dept
Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto Works Dept
1954