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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 (...)

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 (...)

Date8/7/1971
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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 in 50 American states and in Canada can be purchased from a U.S. publisher. A free list of farms in Ontario is available from the department of tourism.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0023151F
      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(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      8/11/1945
      Christmas Trees start their Long Journeys, Getting read for Christmas, the harvest is under way at Richardson Farms, north of Orono, where 250,000 Scotch pines grow on the 400 acres
      Christmas Trees start their Long Journeys, Getting read for Christmas, the harvest is under way at Richardson Farms, north of Orono, where 250,000 Scotch pines grow on the 400 acres
      Beaty, Keith
      11/11/1974
      Vacation farms offer sunny fun for visitors to Bolton, Acton
      Vacation farms offer sunny fun for visitors to Bolton, Acton
      Mahler, John
      4/27/1982
      Don head farms changes hands. Old Colonial in design, this is the residence of the late J.D. Patterson at Don Head Farms, a 514-acre country estate we(...)
      Don head farms changes hands. Old Colonial in design, this is the residence of the late J.D. Patterson at Don Head Farms, a 514-acre country estate we(...)
      Smith, Strathy
      7/8/1940
      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
      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
      City dwellers
      City dwellers
      McConnell, Colin
      6/22/1983
      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
      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