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Spare the air: Warnings about Toronto's air quality weren't enough to keep these cars off the Don Valley Parkway last week
Spare the air: Warnings about Toronto's air quality weren't enough to keep these cars off the Don Valley Parkway last week

Spare the air: Warnings about Toronto's air quality weren't enough to keep these cars off the Don Valley Parkway last week

Date6/25/1998
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Original Toronto Star caption: Spare the air: Warnings about Toronto's air quality weren't enough to keep these cars off the Don Valley Parkway last week.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0010925F
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Clearing the air
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River clean-up yields 39 cars, Don Stacey holds twisted metal he found down the side of a steep ravine in the Humber River Valley west of Kleinberg
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