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These fishermen are setting their nets in Georgian Bay on the tug David Marwick, home port rocky Tobermory
These fishermen are setting their nets in Georgian Bay on the tug David Marwick, home port rocky Tobermory

These fishermen are setting their nets in Georgian Bay on the tug David Marwick, home port rocky Tobermory

Date11/1/1941
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Original Toronto Star caption: These fishermen are setting their nets in Georgian Bay on the tug David Marwick, home port rocky Tobermory. They are after lake trout and will set 15 boxes of nets, three to the box. As he pays out the nets, the fisher on the rail spins it to uncoil it.
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    ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
    CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
    Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
    Object NumberTSPA_0108417F
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    Reels of drying nets are a common sight in picturesque Tobermory at the extreme end of the Bruce peninsula where Georgian Bay merges into Lake Huron. (...)
    Nott, Herbert
    11/1/1941
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    Fishermen tend to their nets on the Algarve coast in Portugal, one of Europe's great bargains
    Spremo, Boris
    6/4/1988
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    Portuguese fishermen carry nets through the village of Nazare, 1954
    Gigli, Ormond, 1925-
    1954
    At the wheel of he Merri Gale, Jack Vary, right, puts out into Lake Erie from Port Stanley, Ontario, to take up the nets for perch and smelt. With him(...)
    At the wheel of he Merri Gale, Jack Vary, right, puts out into Lake Erie from Port Stanley, Ontario, to take up the nets for perch and smelt. With him(...)
    Deryk, Hans
    5/25/1978
    Greek seaman Konstantinos Boulis, 23, with his wife, Frances, and baby son, Christo, is fighting to stay in Canada, where he nets $500 a week as a par(...)
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    Spremo, Boris
    3/31/1972
    Winding the Fishing nets at Wards Island
    Winding the Fishing nets at Wards Island
    Toronto Star (Firm)
    8/8/1912
    Police raid nets complete hooch still
    Police raid nets complete hooch still
    Toronto Star (Firm)
    6/16/1930
    Luck or skill? Team Canada goalie Rogie Vachon figures he's still in the nets because of the luck of the draw, but obviously his teammates figure ther(...)
    Luck or skill? Team Canada goalie Rogie Vachon figures he's still in the nets because of the luck of the draw, but obviously his teammates figure ther(...)
    Bezant, Graham
    9/12/1976
    Bunny Larocque: Ken Dryden's former understudy is having a good year as one of four goalies minding Canadiens' nets
    Bunny Larocque: Ken Dryden's former understudy is having a good year as one of four goalies minding Canadiens' nets
    Laroque, Michel (Bunny)
    12/5/1979
    No flaws remain in much-used gill nets when Albert Leslie, Sr
    No flaws remain in much-used gill nets when Albert Leslie, Sr
    Nott, Herbert
    11/1/1941
    Off duty the soldiers mix with the villagers and learn such things as mending fish nets, right
    Off duty the soldiers mix with the villagers and learn such things as mending fish nets, right
    Malak
    3/28/1942
    Gilles Gratton, making one of his patented brilliant stops, will likely be in nets for Toronto Toros in opener of WHA semi-final series at Gardens tonight
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    Gratton, Gilles
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