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This is plain looting of a farm cache of potatoes by city dwellers who have pushed their small carts out into the country to see what they can discove(...)
This is plain looting of a farm cache of potatoes by city dwellers who have pushed their small carts out into the country to see what they can discove(...)

This is plain looting of a farm cache of potatoes by city dwellers who have pushed their small carts out into the country to see what they can discove(...)

Date8/11/1945
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Original Toronto Star caption: This is plain looting of a farm cache of potatoes by city dwellers who have pushed their small carts out into the country to see what they can discover. Many of the farms have been abandoned by farmers.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0019431F
      Farm vacations are growing in popularity in North American as city dwellers try to give their children a taste of country living. A list of 400 farms (...)
      Farm vacations are growing in popularity in North American as city dwellers try to give their children a taste of country living. A list of 400 farms (...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      8/7/1971
      Can transportation policy affect the city dweller's mode of travel? Yes, according to a report by the Bureau of Municipal Research discussed in today'(...)
      Can transportation policy affect the city dweller's mode of travel? Yes, according to a report by the Bureau of Municipal Research discussed in today'(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      1/21/1971
      Carts for rent: Travellers using Pearson airport's Terminal 3 have to pay to use luggage carts but the $1 fee is refunded when the carts are returned
      Carts for rent: Travellers using Pearson airport's Terminal 3 have to pay to use luggage carts but the $1 fee is refunded when the carts are returned
      Stawicki, Andrew
      12/5/1988
      On the right track: Renowed architect Ralph Erskine of Sweden says Toronto's downtown and waterfront areas will undergo an exciting transformation by the year 2001. Where railways now divide city dwellers from the lake. Erskine sees gardens, housing, shops and theatres springing up over the next 20 years - adding new life to the city. But he wants that Metro's highrise suburbs could become ghettos.
      On the right track: Renowed architect Ralph Erskine of Sweden says Toronto's downtown and waterfront areas will undergo an exciting transformation by the year 2001. Where railways now divide city dwellers from the lake. Erskine sees gardens, housing, shops and theatres springing up over the next 20 years - adding new life to the city. But he wants that Metro's highrise suburbs could become ghettos.
      Goode, Jeff
      11/4/1981
      Muffin the cat revived. Fire gutted a third-floor apartment on Dundas St. W. near Keele St. today and also drove out nearby apartment dwellers. No one(...)
      Muffin the cat revived. Fire gutted a third-floor apartment on Dundas St. W. near Keele St. today and also drove out nearby apartment dwellers. No one(...)
      McConnell, Colin
      1/31/1984
      The water carriers: The power failure that blacked out North York for up to 25 hours during the weekend also left some apartment dwellers high and dry
      The water carriers: The power failure that blacked out North York for up to 25 hours during the weekend also left some apartment dwellers high and dry
      McConnell, Colin
      7/17/1977
      Photograph of children playing in from of the Flemingdon Park Community Centre (black and white…
      Changing faces: children running out of the Flemingdon Park Community Centre reflect the changing ethnic makeup--and the new generation--of suburban dwellers
      Stawicki, Andrew
      1984
      City dwellers
      City dwellers
      McConnell, Colin
      6/22/1983
      Tent city dwellers voted today not to move from the University of Toronto campus to the site of the old Mercer reformatory until they get enough money(...)
      Tent city dwellers voted today not to move from the University of Toronto campus to the site of the old Mercer reformatory until they get enough money(...)
      Ross, Fred
      7/16/1971
      Time to relax: A stroll along the boardwalk in the Toronto Beaches is an obvious pleasure for city dwellers
      Time to relax: A stroll along the boardwalk in the Toronto Beaches is an obvious pleasure for city dwellers
      Stawicki, Andrew
      5/14/1989
      City dwellers inhale about 23 ounces of pollution every year, Transport Minister Paul Hellyer told a Park Plaza meeting last night. Here, with dust fr(...)
      City dwellers inhale about 23 ounces of pollution every year, Transport Minister Paul Hellyer told a Park Plaza meeting last night. Here, with dust fr(...)
      Geo, Mario
      4/1/1968
      Picture of crowded beach.
      Toronto Island beaches packed with city dwellers escaping heat
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      24 July 1961