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The disappearing backyards, Storm waters on Lake Ontario battering the cliff face have eroded big part of the backyards of houses along the Chesterton(...)
The disappearing backyards, Storm waters on Lake Ontario battering the cliff face have eroded big part of the backyards of houses along the Chesterton(...)

The disappearing backyards, Storm waters on Lake Ontario battering the cliff face have eroded big part of the backyards of houses along the Chesterton(...)

Date7/28/1974
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  • The disappearing backyards; Storm waters on Lake Ontario battering the cliff face have eroded big part of the backyards of houses along the Chesterton Shores; just west of the Pickering boundary with Metro.
  • The disappearing backyards, Storm waters on Lake Ontario battering the cliff face have eroded big part of the backyards of houses along the Chesterton(...)
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Original Toronto Star caption: The disappearing backyards; Storm waters on Lake Ontario battering the cliff face have eroded big part of the backyards of houses along the Chesterton Shores; just west of the Pickering boundary with Metro.
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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_0116668F
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      We're still fighting battles in other people's backyards as well as our own. William Roberts Corra Chairman.
      We're still fighting battles in other people's backyards as well as our own. William Roberts Corra Chairman.
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      First Strike by north york municpal employees, which began yesterday, is resulting in garbage piling up at the rate of 700 tons a day in backyards and(...)
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      A painting of a view of the back of a row of two-story townhouses, with fences dividing their b…
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      Homewood, R.T. (Tom)
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      Irish, Paul
      3/1/1991
      Blowing up a storm in the backyard is this family of pipers, Former Pipe Major Archie Dewar is with son Alex and daughter Frances Lawrie
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      Lennon, Frank
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      More than 100 feet of Harold Griffin's backyard atop the Scarborough Bluffs has cascaded down into Lake Ontario in the 32 years he's lived there. He's(...)
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      Combs, Erin
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      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
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      Dunlop, Al
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      Two girls look down from window opening in wood treehouse.
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      Backyard lake
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      Bezant, Graham
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