Digital Archive

A busy day on Toronto hydro poles, More action, still, when Hydro sells the poles

Order Reproduction

A busy day on Toronto hydro poles, More action, still, when Hydro sells the poles

Date4/2/1969

Names

Innell, Reg, 1926-2018 (photographer)

Toronto Star (Firm) (publisher)

Format

Picture

Notes

Original Toronto Star caption: A busy day on Toronto hydro poles; More action; still; when Hydro sells the poles

Subject

Medium

Photographs

Language

ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives

CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive

Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)

Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)

Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0008839F

Country:Canada

City, town or township:Toronto

Province or state:Ontario

Discover More

Lineman spares that tree, Ontario Hydro lineman Bernie Dore installs a line on new main feeder poles, eight feet taller than the old ones (right), going through Georgetown

Lineman spares that tree, Ontario Hydro lineman Bernie Dore installs a line on new main feeder poles, eight feet taller than the old ones (right), going through Georgetown

7/26/1973

Maze of Hydro poles mars the view of Sunmount Cres

Maze of Hydro poles mars the view of Sunmount Cres

11/16/1964

Lorne Perkins, 76. Totem poles from hydro poles

Lorne Perkins, 76. Totem poles from hydro poles

11/3/1976

The final step before the lights go on again is taken by Frank sackfield up a hydro pole

The final step before the lights go on again is taken by Frank sackfield up a hydro pole

1/15/1960

Another Hydro Pole goes up, Our studies show there's lots of power

Another Hydro Pole goes up, Our studies show there's lots of power

12/17/1973

Violent storm topples hydro poles

Violent storm topples hydro poles

8/8/1983

Ruck still smoulders after a blast at a Hydro sub-station blacked out downtown Toronto yesterday for 43 minutes

Ruck still smoulders after a blast at a Hydro sub-station blacked out downtown Toronto yesterday for 43 minutes

7/31/1969

View? what view?, The good news about working as a Toronto Hydro Lineman like Steve Ruscitti is the great vistas of Toronto neighborhoods from the raised bucket he works in all day

View? what view?, The good news about working as a Toronto Hydro Lineman like Steve Ruscitti is the great vistas of Toronto neighborhoods from the raised bucket he works in all day

11/16/1989

Going up: Reader says question of whether nurses or Hydro linemen should be paid more depends on whether you are sick or in need of electricity

Going up: Reader says question of whether nurses or Hydro linemen should be paid more depends on whether you are sick or in need of electricity

4/2/1969

Losing power: Hydro's setbacks were launched when it asked for a 13-per-cent price hike for 1983

Losing power: Hydro's setbacks were launched when it asked for a 13-per-cent price hike for 1983

9/6/1973

Everything was backwards when Roy Teal, system supervisor at the Ontario Hydro control centre at Richview substation near Malton, examined instruments(...)

Everything was backwards when Roy Teal, system supervisor at the Ontario Hydro control centre at Richview substation near Malton, examined instruments(...)

11/10/1965

Image shows an aerial view of a Transformer Station.

Hydro Transformer Station, Millwood Road, east side, between Village Station Road and Overlea Boulevard, Toronto, Ontario

1938-02