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Image shows an aerial view of the Harbour.

The land in question is called Marine Terminal 27 at the foot of Yonge St

10/16/1985

Image shows a few people working on board.

Getting set in the Harbor. Getting ready for the shipping season, the Toronto Harbor Commissioners' tug the Kenneth A. sets out the channel markers. C(...)

3/27/1974

Image shows a cargo ship deck loaded with buses, cars and other goods.

That's mixed cargo. Docked in Toronto, the Federal Schedule unloads her cargo-World War II aircraft for Chicago, double decker buses for Detroit, Germ(...)

6/9/1974

Image shows a few huge ships at the Harbour.

Spring's coming. With the St. Lawrence Seaway expected to open by March 31, Toronto Harbor is getting ready for the new season. Hugh Fallu (right) wel(...)

3/3/1981

Image shows a big anchor lying by the lake with a ship in the background.

Soon in use will be this huge anchor; lying idle now at the mouth of the Don river. Freighter in background also spent the winter snugly in the protected waters of the river.

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Image shows a tugboat with the Harbour buildings in the background.

New tug for Toronto. Toronto harbor commissioners yesterday went for a short trip aboard their new $200,000 tug, the William Rest. Here the ship, equi(...)

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Image shows one lady and two gentlemen holding a silk hat.

Topper. That describes both silk hat and Capt. Ernie Taylor; right; of Midland Prince; who received it as skipper of first cargo ship to dock at Toronto this season. Harbormaster Harold Snelgrove presents hat as Arlene Meadows watches.

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Image shows two gentlemen. One of them is trying on a hat.

The hat is his. Capt. E. A. Davies of the Imperial Collingwood tries on 133-year-old hat presented to him by Harbor Master H. J. Snelgrove for bringin(...)

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Image shows two gentlemen on the ship.

Lake season opens. Capt. Raymond Boudreault of the Oil Transport gets the traditional top hat from the Harbor Commission's Capt. John Mann as the firs(...)

3/26/1965

Image shows a long pipe on the ground going along the water.

Vast reclamation job. A section of this pipe is shown in (2), where it runs along the Consolidated Coal Company's dock. Most of the 7,500 feet of pipe(...)

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Image shows some boats at the Harbour.

A scene at the foot of Bay street, Toronto, Ontario

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Image shows a few boats on the lake with the Harbor in the background.

Toronto Bay, 1905

1930

Image shows a pump dredge boat on the lake.

Pump dredge Cyclone one of the eargest in the world property of the Toronto Harbour Commission

n.d.

Image shows a workboat in action.

Cyclone in action

3/1/1936

Image shows a gentleman walking on the snow covered lake. There is a sign that reads: Danger. I ...

It's thin ice, but L.A.C. Joe Cleary, one of Toronto Island's 600 residents, goes ahead anyway. Here he is starting off across the bay

2/6/1945

Image shows the front of two ships.

These lake carriers; wintered in Toronto harbor; will soon be plying the seaway. Officials see a good start but fear effects of a week economy.

1/2/1991

Image shows a few mountains of coal.

Mountain of coal sketch along the toronto turning basin

9/17/1932

Image shows a ship on the lake.

Length 170' Beam 42'; Length of Ladder 80' - length of Spuds 70'; Engine horse power 1750; Diameter of Impellor - 8-feet; Diameter of suction 24-inches; Diameter of discharge 24-inches; Swing 200-feet.

3/27/1930

Image shows a tugboat and a workboat on the lake.

Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Harbour - Miscellaneous - 1930 - 1959

10/31/1929

Image shows a bus being loaded on a big ship.

Next stop; Lima. Toronto dock workers load one of 25 buses decommissioned by the Toronto Transit Commission on to a freighter at Pier 51 near Cherry St. and Unwin Ave. yesterday. The buses; taken out of service after 18 years; and two city garbage trucks are bound for Lima; Peru.

4/30/1991