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Huge pumpkin a Halloween fantasy
Huge pumpkin a Halloween fantasy

Huge pumpkin a Halloween fantasy

Date10/25/1987
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Original Toronto Star caption: Huge pumpkin a Halloween fantasy. Alison March; 6; shopping for her Halloween pumpkin at Greenview Fruit Market on Danforth Ave.; couldn't resist climbing on to the biggest one she's ever seen. Grown at Holland Marsh; it weighs 107 kilograms (235 pounds). Proceeds of the market's pumpkin sales go to the Canadian Cancer Society.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0007743F
Halloween is a heavy task, Erica Famularo, 20 months, is finding that getting ready for Halloweeen can be a heavy burden as she selects her pumpkin at the Burnhamthorpe Fruit Market in Mississauga
Halloween is a heavy task, Erica Famularo, 20 months, is finding that getting ready for Halloweeen can be a heavy burden as she selects her pumpkin at the Burnhamthorpe Fruit Market in Mississauga
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10/5/1989
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A Halloween hat for Katie, What can you do with a pumpkin
A Halloween hat for Katie, What can you do with a pumpkin
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Mom, I've found the perfect jack-o-lantern!, Seven-month-old Haley Smith of Brampton is plunk in the middle of a pile of pumpkins for sale at 8827 Mississauga Rd.
10/13/1987
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Two-year-old Rachel Regina hugs one of the eighty 250-pound pumpkins you can buy for $100 at the Greenview Fruit Market on Danforth Ave. Proceeds go t(...)
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Antionette Amodeo checks out the more than 1,000 pumpkins on display at Islington Nursery on Islington Ave.
Antionette Amodeo checks out the more than 1,000 pumpkins on display at Islington Nursery on Islington Ave.
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Sea of pumpkins heading for metro
Sea of pumpkins heading for metro
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