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Backyard lake
Backyard lake

Backyard lake

Date3/19/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Backyard lake: Elaine Fritz; left; and neighbor Irene Noseworthy take out the boat Fritz uses to navigate their street; Victor Drive; in Stouffville where spring flooding is an annual ordeal Residents say man-made hills around a nearby gravel pit are caus Stouffville (Ont.)
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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_0007299F
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Whitchurch-Stouffville
Province or state:Ontario
Region or district:York (Ont. : Regional municipality)
On the shore of Lake Erie, Eva Malolepszy and Nora Srokosz fill and stack sandbags outside their home in Harich Township as the already-high lake threatens houses
On the shore of Lake Erie, Eva Malolepszy and Nora Srokosz fill and stack sandbags outside their home in Harich Township as the already-high lake threatens houses
3/16/1973
A farmer wades across a field covered by a lake of floodwater south of Winnipeg
A farmer wades across a field covered by a lake of floodwater south of Winnipeg
4/25/1979
Residents leave for higher ground, More than 85 familys on one street alone had to fle their homes in the wake fo flood waters from Lake St. Clair
Residents leave for higher ground, More than 85 familys on one street alone had to fle their homes in the wake fo flood waters from Lake St. Clair
3/17/1973
Residents leave for higher ground, More than 85 familys on one street alone had to flee their homes in the wake of flood waters from Lake St. Clair
Residents leave for higher ground, More than 85 familys on one street alone had to flee their homes in the wake of flood waters from Lake St. Clair
3/17/1973
Weekend floods along Lake St. Clair force Jeff Cada and his family from their home, in St. Clair Beach. [Incomplete]
Weekend floods along Lake St. Clair force Jeff Cada and his family from their home, in St. Clair Beach. [Incomplete]
3/17/1973
Taken 15 minutes after this railway dyke collapsed at Hatzic Lake in B
Taken 15 minutes after this railway dyke collapsed at Hatzic Lake in B
6/5/1948
New great lake
New great lake
9/11/1986
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Don Valley waterway: A solitary Metro police car was the only vehicle on the road this morning as the Don Valley turned into one big lake after a record-setting rainfall overnight
8/27/1986
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]
4/10/1973
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
A house in Wheatley, Ont, sits surrounded by water from Lake Erie yesterday, with boats tied at the door
A house in Wheatley, Ont, sits surrounded by water from Lake Erie yesterday, with boats tied at the door
4/10/1973
A truck plows through floodwaters on a road near Leamington, one of the areas worst hit by flooding from heavy rain and water blown ashore from Lake E(...)
A truck plows through floodwaters on a road near Leamington, one of the areas worst hit by flooding from heavy rain and water blown ashore from Lake E(...)
11/15/1972