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Dying Beacon: Just as family farms are consolidating into huge, corporate ventures, the wheat pool's trademark elevators are making way for concrete super elevators
Dying Beacon: Just as family farms are consolidating into huge, corporate ventures, the wheat pool's trademark elevators are making way for concrete super elevators

Dying Beacon: Just as family farms are consolidating into huge, corporate ventures, the wheat pool's trademark elevators are making way for concrete super elevators

Date8/17/1992
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  • Dying Beacon: Just as family farms are consolidating into huge, corporate ventures, the wheat pool's trademark elevators are making way for concrete super elevators
  • Dying Beacon: Just as family farms are consolidating into huge; corporate ventures; the wheat pool's trademark elevators are making way for concrete super elevators.
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Original Toronto Star caption: Dying Beacon: Just as family farms are consolidating into huge; corporate ventures; the wheat pool's trademark elevators are making way for concrete super elevators.
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    ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
    CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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    Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
    Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0105870F
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    Wheat farmer Joseph Rennick glumly stalks snow-covered railway track running alongside elevators bursting with grain that no one wants to buy. After 3(...)
    Wheat farmer Joseph Rennick glumly stalks snow-covered railway track running alongside elevators bursting with grain that no one wants to buy. After 3(...)
    Ross, Fred
    1/16/1970
    Image shows a few grain elevators by the lake.
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    Toronto Star (Firm)
    n.d.
    Grand Trunk Elevators, Depot Harbour, Georgian Bay ''On Grand Trunk Railway
    Grand Trunk Elevators, Depot Harbour, Georgian Bay ''On Grand Trunk Railway
    Unknown
    1910
    Elevators stopped in Pigott building and other offices
    Elevators stopped in Pigott building and other offices
    Toronto Star (Firm)
    1/3/1947
    Seven Seamen Accused of desertion under Canada Shipping Act, when they walked off four ships at the Kingston elevators when the Seamen's Union called (...)
    Seven Seamen Accused of desertion under Canada Shipping Act, when they walked off four ships at the Kingston elevators when the Seamen's Union called (...)
    Toronto Star (Firm)
    5/28/1946
    Demolition of grain elevators and seven-storey storehouse in Midland, Ont.
    Demolition of grain elevators and seven-storey storehouse in Midland, Ont.
    Harrison, Mark
    2/29/1992
    CN Tower hard to miss. But the wrecker's ball fell - again and again - yesterday on Monarch Mills' waterfront grain elevators. A little camera tricker(...)
    CN Tower hard to miss. But the wrecker's ball fell - again and again - yesterday on Monarch Mills' waterfront grain elevators. A little camera tricker(...)
    Monarch Maple Leaf Mills
    8/16/1983
    Firemen reach for the sky yesterday to battle a fire atop the Maple Leaf Mills giant waterfront grain elevators
    Firemen reach for the sky yesterday to battle a fire atop the Maple Leaf Mills giant waterfront grain elevators
    Griffin, Doug
    5/10/1972
    C.P.R. Elevators, Fort William, Ontario
    C.P.R. Elevators, Fort William, Ontario
    Valentine & Sons
    1910
    Elevators, Fort William, Ontario
    Elevators, Fort William, Ontario
    Valentine & Sons
    1910
    A colorized photograph of a hotel lobby with an elevator and stairwell.
    Main entrance, elevators and main stairway, King Edward Hotel, Toronto, Canada
    Unknown
    Approximately 1910
    On the move, Evelyn Muncaster is proud of her own business ventures, including promoting pop singer Pamela Cannon, inset above, and her husband's - De(...)
    On the move, Evelyn Muncaster is proud of her own business ventures, including promoting pop singer Pamela Cannon, inset above, and her husband's - De(...)
    Muncaster, Evelyn
    10/28/1981