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Flying from the heat, three boys dive together from the 25-foot-high Erindale Dam for a cooling dip in the five feet of water in the Credit River belo(...)
Flying from the heat, three boys dive together from the 25-foot-high Erindale Dam for a cooling dip in the five feet of water in the Credit River belo(...)

Flying from the heat, three boys dive together from the 25-foot-high Erindale Dam for a cooling dip in the five feet of water in the Credit River belo(...)

Date8/9/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: Flying from the heat; three boys dive together from the 25-foot-high Erindale Dam for a cooling dip in the five feet of water in the Credit River below. Tomorrow will again be hot; but not quite as bad; with a high about 80.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0017622F
      Flying from the heat, three boys dive together from the 25-foot-high Erindale Dam for a cooling dip in the feet of water in the Credit River below. To(...)
      Flying from the heat, three boys dive together from the 25-foot-high Erindale Dam for a cooling dip in the feet of water in the Credit River below. To(...)
      Norris, Dave
      8/9/1971
      Punt being paddled by three boys was carried over the falls at this dam on the Credit river at Georgetown, throwing all three into the deep, fast-flowing water of river
      Punt being paddled by three boys was carried over the falls at this dam on the Credit river at Georgetown, throwing all three into the deep, fast-flowing water of river
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      4/28/1947
      Mosquitoes breed at unused dam, The water in the abandoned Erindale dam, TOP, dropped eight feet this spring when frost took out a large V-shaped piec(...)
      Mosquitoes breed at unused dam, The water in the abandoned Erindale dam, TOP, dropped eight feet this spring when frost took out a large V-shaped piec(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      7/11/1941
      Boy on Toboggan (left) is airborne after he hit a three-foot depression in the snow that blankets a hill 100 feet high made from fill in Central Park,(...)
      Boy on Toboggan (left) is airborne after he hit a three-foot depression in the snow that blankets a hill 100 feet high made from fill in Central Park,(...)
      Norris, Dave
      1/1/1974
      Boy on Toboggan (left) is airborne after he hit a three-foot depression in the snow that blankets a hill 100 feet high made from fill in Centrel Park,(...)
      Boy on Toboggan (left) is airborne after he hit a three-foot depression in the snow that blankets a hill 100 feet high made from fill in Centrel Park,(...)
      Norris, Dave
      1/1/1974
      Half a village farmhouses and part of a railroad line will vanish beneath 70 feet of water when the sluice gates of this Grand river dam at Fergus, On(...)
      Half a village farmhouses and part of a railroad line will vanish beneath 70 feet of water when the sluice gates of this Grand river dam at Fergus, On(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      3/22/1941
      Flood waters released through the Shand dam into the Grand river at the rate of 18,276 cubic feet per second today led to the worst flood since 1929 a(...)
      Flood waters released through the Shand dam into the Grand river at the rate of 18,276 cubic feet per second today led to the worst flood since 1929 a(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      4/12/1947
      Trying to escape the heat yesterday as the temperature hit a balmy (if you're a polar bear) high of 30 degrees, two bears interrupt their dip in the i(...)
      Trying to escape the heat yesterday as the temperature hit a balmy (if you're a polar bear) high of 30 degrees, two bears interrupt their dip in the i(...)
      Feeny, Edwin
      1/18/1971
      Conner Barnett, 14, left, Alex Loubert, 12, and Martin Kuryllo, 13, plunge into summer yesterday as they go for a cooling dip. They jumped off the bridge linking Algonquin and Ward's islands
      Conner Barnett, 14, left, Alex Loubert, 12, and Martin Kuryllo, 13, plunge into summer yesterday as they go for a cooling dip. They jumped off the bridge linking Algonquin and Ward's islands
      Bock, Tony
      8 June 1997
      Cooling Off: Matthew Yetman, 2 1/2, and his dad Steve, in matching Mohawk haircuts, take a dip in the pool at Believue Square Park yesterday during an anti-drug concert
      Cooling Off: Matthew Yetman, 2 1/2, and his dad Steve, in matching Mohawk haircuts, take a dip in the pool at Believue Square Park yesterday during an anti-drug concert
      Andrew, Cindy
      7/29/1989
      Cooling Crystal Beach was another much sought-after haven from the heat
      Cooling Crystal Beach was another much sought-after haven from the heat
      Cole, Eric
      7/4/1949
      Rural creek? Guess again. Benjamin Billena of Toronto perches on a rock in the Credit River, in Erindale Park on very urban Dundas St. W. He's after o(...)
      Rural creek? Guess again. Benjamin Billena of Toronto perches on a rock in the Credit River, in Erindale Park on very urban Dundas St. W. He's after o(...)
      Calleja, Frank
      9/10/1991