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Revealed? Reader's memories of early Toronto offer an intriguing theory about origin of hidden tunnels, discovered when workers were digging out gasoline tanks at King and Jarvis Sts
Revealed? Reader's memories of early Toronto offer an intriguing theory about origin of hidden tunnels, discovered when workers were digging out gasoline tanks at King and Jarvis Sts

Revealed? Reader's memories of early Toronto offer an intriguing theory about origin of hidden tunnels, discovered when workers were digging out gasoline tanks at King and Jarvis Sts

Date5/10/1982
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  • Revealed? Reader's memories of early Toronto offer an intriguing theory about origin of hidden tunnels; discovered when workers were digging out gasoline tanks at King and Jarvis Sts.
  • Revealed? Reader's memories of early Toronto offer an intriguing theory about origin of hidden tunnels, discovered when workers were digging out gasoline tanks at King and Jarvis Sts
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Original Toronto Star caption: Revealed? Reader's memories of early Toronto offer an intriguing theory about origin of hidden tunnels, discovered when workers were digging out gasoline tanks at King and Jarvis Sts.
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      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0017777F
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      Tanks dominate skyline, Gasoline and oil storage tanks, some complete, others in course of construction, have already been erected on the site of the (...)
      Tanks dominate skyline, Gasoline and oil storage tanks, some complete, others in course of construction, have already been erected on the site of the (...)
      British American Oil
      11/1/1941
      Trunk-mounted propane tanks in Gordon Champion's car produces a dual-fuel system-propane and gasoline
      Trunk-mounted propane tanks in Gordon Champion's car produces a dual-fuel system-propane and gasoline
      Ross, Fred
      3/10/1970
      Experts believe the gasoline tanks of the wrecked plane, seem here, exploded when it crashed into a huge granite boulder. A.T.C.A. official said there(...)
      Experts believe the gasoline tanks of the wrecked plane, seem here, exploded when it crashed into a huge granite boulder. A.T.C.A. official said there(...)
      Graetz Bros.
      4/29/1947
      Now it's gasoline by the litre, The first metric service station in Canada is the one at Jarvis and Isabella Sts
      Now it's gasoline by the litre, The first metric service station in Canada is the one at Jarvis and Isabella Sts
      Spremo, Boris
      4/9/1975
      Memories of Christmas past are discussed by Charlie Webb, left, and Major Austin Millar of the Salvation Army at the Harbor Light Centre on Jarvis St.(...)
      Memories of Christmas past are discussed by Charlie Webb, left, and Major Austin Millar of the Salvation Army at the Harbor Light Centre on Jarvis St.(...)
      Ross, Fred
      12/20/1972
      No more secrets: When Ray Found, 71, of Ajax heard Pickering Beach School might be demolished, he revealed that two straps, now 60 years old, were hidden under floorboards
      No more secrets: When Ray Found, 71, of Ajax heard Pickering Beach School might be demolished, he revealed that two straps, now 60 years old, were hidden under floorboards
      Russell, Jim
      4/19/1983
      'We need think of the lake being above our heads,' says Bill Lawson, above, mine captain in the salt tunnels that lie 1,800 feet under Lake Huron
      'We need think of the lake being above our heads,' says Bill Lawson, above, mine captain in the salt tunnels that lie 1,800 feet under Lake Huron
      Bull, Ron
      n.d.
      New workplace: Mary Mastromatteo and Crawford Noble, employees of Central ARC Industries, stack paper into shrinking tunnels at their new workplace in Scarborough
      New workplace: Mary Mastromatteo and Crawford Noble, employees of Central ARC Industries, stack paper into shrinking tunnels at their new workplace in Scarborough
      Irish, Paul
      5/21/1987
      With pneumatic spades roaring, miners chisel out the twin 1,960-foot-long tunnels for the Spadina rapid transit line at rate of 12 feet a day. Schedul(...)
      With pneumatic spades roaring, miners chisel out the twin 1,960-foot-long tunnels for the Spadina rapid transit line at rate of 12 feet a day. Schedul(...)
      Loek, Dick
      7/11/1975
      Othello Tunnels Near Hope
      Othello Tunnels Near Hope
      Mahler, John
      2/3/1992
      Othello Tunnels Near Hope
      Othello Tunnels Near Hope
      Mahler, John
      2/3/1992
      Adding the finishing touch to the Covenanter tank she helped to make, this young war worker is seen chalking up a bit of inspiration on the tank's gun and mounting
      Adding the finishing touch to the Covenanter tank she helped to make, this young war worker is seen chalking up a bit of inspiration on the tank's gun and mounting
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      11/28/1942