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Traffic Halted for six hours on this Winnipeg street while a large house was moved from its foundation and shifted to another site a block away. At 11(...)
Traffic Halted for six hours on this Winnipeg street while a large house was moved from its foundation and shifted to another site a block away. At 11(...)

Traffic Halted for six hours on this Winnipeg street while a large house was moved from its foundation and shifted to another site a block away. At 11(...)

Date6/27/1946
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Original Toronto Star caption: Traffic Halted for six hours on this Winnipeg street while a large house was moved from its foundation and shifted to another site a block away. At 11 a.m. the house was lifted from its original foundation and at 5 p.m. it was situated on a new lot. The move helped solve another Winipeg housing problem
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0008525F
Eleven Families occupying two blocks of houses in the Montreal suburb of Verdun are staying right in the premises as the buildings are moved to anothe(...)
Eleven Families occupying two blocks of houses in the Montreal suburb of Verdun are staying right in the premises as the buildings are moved to anothe(...)
7/8/1946
Looking north on Yonge Street from south of Cummer Avenue and Drewry Avenue at large house on the southeast corner of Yonge and Cummer
Looking north on Yonge Street from south of Cummer Avenue and Drewry Avenue at large house on the southeast corner of Yonge and Cummer
11/1/1958
House, Finch Avenue W., north side, showing house after having been moved from Eglinton Avenue E
House, Finch Avenue W., north side, showing house after having been moved from Eglinton Avenue E
1958-04
Extra-Wide Load, The 120-year-old Raymer farmhouse stops for a red light on Highway 48 in Markham yesterday while being moved to a new location
Extra-Wide Load, The 120-year-old Raymer farmhouse stops for a red light on Highway 48 in Markham yesterday while being moved to a new location
7/3/1991
Now open 24 hours a day, six days a week, as well as Sundays, the A&P food store at Five Points Mall in Oshawa soon will have to change its hours. Osh(...)
Now open 24 hours a day, six days a week, as well as Sundays, the A&P food store at Five Points Mall in Oshawa soon will have to change its hours. Osh(...)
10/20/1975
1861 House Moved out of Industry's way
1861 House Moved out of Industry's way
11/20/1975
Karen Kain, a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, is busy and interested renovating an old Cabbagetown house she and her sister moved(...)
Karen Kain, a principal dancer with the National Ballet of Canada, is busy and interested renovating an old Cabbagetown house she and her sister moved(...)
2/27/1976
It's like a grand safari when the Diggins move. The 11 members of the Diggins family moved into town this k and caused quite a ripple in diplomatic circles. John R. who is the newly appointed deputy of teh Consul-General of the United States in Toronto, his wife Gisela and their nine children took over four apartments with six bedrooms, three kitchens, 10 closets and one full time maid. [Incomplete]
It's like a grand safari when the Diggins move. The 11 members of the Diggins family moved into town this k and caused quite a ripple in diplomatic circles. John R. who is the newly appointed deputy of teh Consul-General of the United States in Toronto, his wife Gisela and their nine children took over four apartments with six bedrooms, three kitchens, 10 closets and one full time maid. [Incomplete]
5/30/1966
Newtonbrook Village development. View is looking east from Yonge Street, south of Cummer Avenue ...
Newtonbrook Village development. View is looking east from Yonge Street, south of Cummer Avenue at future site of Averill Crescent and Mullet Road. Toronto, Ontario
11/1/1958
Safe site: House where J. S. Woodsworth, founder of the CCF (now NDP), was born, has been moved from its original location nearby to Broadacres Park in Etobicoke
Safe site: House where J. S. Woodsworth, founder of the CCF (now NDP), was born, has been moved from its original location nearby to Broadacres Park in Etobicoke
11/30/1980
Leave Toronto street site O, The Canada Permanent Mortgage Corp, has moved to-day from its old building on Toronto St
Leave Toronto street site O, The Canada Permanent Mortgage Corp, has moved to-day from its old building on Toronto St
4/1/1930
An Automatic One-Way Street. A three-bedroom bungalow owned by Don Prat is inched across Oshawa yesterday, its width making an instant one-way street (...)
An Automatic One-Way Street. A three-bedroom bungalow owned by Don Prat is inched across Oshawa yesterday, its width making an instant one-way street (...)
3/11/1976