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Work on regent park housing project, first big Canadian slum-clearing project, already was under way when final go-ahead on the $10,000,000 job was re(...)
Work on regent park housing project, first big Canadian slum-clearing project, already was under way when final go-ahead on the $10,000,000 job was re(...)

Work on regent park housing project, first big Canadian slum-clearing project, already was under way when final go-ahead on the $10,000,000 job was re(...)

Date7/22/1948
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Original Toronto Star caption: Work on regent park housing project; first big Canadian slum-clearing project; already was under way when final go-ahead on the $10;000;000 job was received from Ottawa yesterday. Ottawa is to contribute approximately $1;125;000. At top is architect's visualization; prepared by J. E. Hoare; Jr.; of how area will appear; below; as it is now [Incomplete]
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object NumberTSPA_0108835F
      Massive public housing projects in big cities, like Toronto's Regent Park (above) were criticized
      Massive public housing projects in big cities, like Toronto's Regent Park (above) were criticized
      Bezant, Graham
      11/20/1968
      Regent park youth corps, a group of serious-minded young people who live in the Regent Park South Housing project, hold round table discussion on how (...)
      Regent park youth corps, a group of serious-minded young people who live in the Regent Park South Housing project, hold round table discussion on how (...)
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      12/30/1968
      Sad-faced child stares out through broken window in one of 732 housing units in Toronto's run-down Regent Park South housing project
      Sad-faced child stares out through broken window in one of 732 housing units in Toronto's run-down Regent Park South housing project
      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
      11/20/1968
      Second in voting to Mrs. Campbell was another woman, June Marks, She, too, is interested in housing, slum clearance and urban renewal projects. Many o(...)
      Second in voting to Mrs. Campbell was another woman, June Marks, She, too, is interested in housing, slum clearance and urban renewal projects. Many o(...)
      Marks, June
      12/6/1966
      Midsummer harvest: Four-year-old Bryan Walsh is plenty proud of the head of cabbage his mom helped grow in the tiny garden plot tended by single mothers in Regent Park housing project
      Midsummer harvest: Four-year-old Bryan Walsh is plenty proud of the head of cabbage his mom helped grow in the tiny garden plot tended by single mothers in Regent Park housing project
      Stawicki, Andrew
      8/13/1987
      Regent Park (north) housing project
      Regent Park (north) housing project
      Housing Authority of Toronto
      4/9/1951
      Housing projects such as Crombie Park, shown under construction, could produce thousands of new jobs for the hard-hit building trades where unemployme(...)
      Housing projects such as Crombie Park, shown under construction, could produce thousands of new jobs for the hard-hit building trades where unemployme(...)
      Beaty, Keith
      n.d.
      Ray Bremner is tough. But he has a tough job -- to clear up the mess drowning the city's non-profit housing project. 'I'm going to leave a first-class project and it's going to survive.'
      Ray Bremner is tough. But he has a tough job -- to clear up the mess drowning the city's non-profit housing project. 'I'm going to leave a first-class project and it's going to survive.'
      Bremner, Raymond
      9/24/1980
      Man, there's a long way to go. A steel rigger pauses to wipe his brow on the big Commerce Court project, now seven storeys above street with 50 more t(...)
      Man, there's a long way to go. A steel rigger pauses to wipe his brow on the big Commerce Court project, now seven storeys above street with 50 more t(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      6/11/1970
      Regent Park south redevelopment project Toronto
      Regent Park south redevelopment project Toronto
      Toronto (Ont.). Joint Advisory Committee on Regent Park South
      1/31/1955
      Husky Oil Ltd. has given the official word that it will go ahead with the biggest energy project in Canada in the past 5 1/2 years. The $3.2 billion p(...)
      Husky Oil Ltd. has given the official word that it will go ahead with the biggest energy project in Canada in the past 5 1/2 years. The $3.2 billion p(...)
      Chrétien, Jean, 1934-
      6/6/1984
      It's no fun being stuck in a high-rise apartment in Regent Park housing development with no place to romp outside or go for a swim during a hot Toronto summer
      It's no fun being stuck in a high-rise apartment in Regent Park housing development with no place to romp outside or go for a swim during a hot Toronto summer
      Darrell, Dick
      6/2/1970