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Boom time or gloom time, Elliot Lake, unlike many mining towns, is a planned, peaceful, and clean place near a lake with a backdrop of wooded hills
Boom time or gloom time, Elliot Lake, unlike many mining towns, is a planned, peaceful, and clean place near a lake with a backdrop of wooded hills

Boom time or gloom time, Elliot Lake, unlike many mining towns, is a planned, peaceful, and clean place near a lake with a backdrop of wooded hills

Date8/18/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: Boom time or gloom time, Elliot Lake, unlike many mining towns, is a planned, peaceful, and clean place near a lake with a backdrop of wooded hills
Subject
    GeographyCity, town, townshipElliot Lake
    GeographyRegion or DistrictAlgoma (Ont. : District)
    GeographyProvince stateOntario
    GeographyCountryCanada
    Medium
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTS-2-125-GO-056
      Disabled by lung cancer, Gus Frobel, a former uranium miner in Elliot Lake, stands at the entrance to the town near an old jumbo mining driller. Frobb(...)
      Disabled by lung cancer, Gus Frobel, a former uranium miner in Elliot Lake, stands at the entrance to the town near an old jumbo mining driller. Frobb(...)
      Griffin, Doug
      1/15/1975
      Two mining companies are trying to evict 300 residents from this Elliot Lake trailer park and turn it into a gravel pit
      Two mining companies are trying to evict 300 residents from this Elliot Lake trailer park and turn it into a gravel pit
      Belyea, W.
      6/20/1983
      The traveller's and sportsman's guide to the principal cities, towns & villages near the hunting & fishing grounds of the great northern lakes in Canada & Manitoba: being a description of the journey from Liverpool to the river "St. Lawrence", lakes "Ontario", "Simcoe", "Muskoka", "Chouchiching" [sic] the "Georgian Bay", lakes "Huron", "Superior", "Winnipeg", "Manitoba", and their connecting rivers, giving the best route to the game and fish sporting localities, how to go, cost of journey, outfit, what to take for camping, distances, &c.
      The traveller's and sportsman's guide to the principal cities, towns & villages near the hunting & fishing grounds of the great northern lakes in Canada & Manitoba: being a description of the journey from Liverpool to the river "St. Lawrence", lakes "Ontario", "Simcoe", "Muskoka", "Chouchiching" [sic] the "Georgian Bay", lakes "Huron", "Superior", "Winnipeg", "Manitoba", and their connecting rivers, giving the best route to the game and fish sporting localities, how to go, cost of journey, outfit, what to take for camping, distances, &c.
      Liverpool printing & stationery co., ltd.
      1880
      Town's all tied up. Toronto artist Harold Town, 62, is swamped with some of the 100,000 bows to be used on a backdrop he designed for the National Bal(...)
      Town's all tied up. Toronto artist Harold Town, 62, is swamped with some of the 100,000 bows to be used on a backdrop he designed for the National Bal(...)
      Faught, Ken
      2/4/1987
      At mid-day stop in Richmond Hill yesterday, NDP Leader Stephen Lewis was questioned by several Grade 3 and 4 students from the town's Walter Scott Public School who were visiting party's offices at same time
      At mid-day stop in Richmond Hill yesterday, NDP Leader Stephen Lewis was questioned by several Grade 3 and 4 students from the town's Walter Scott Public School who were visiting party's offices at same time
      Lennon, Frank
      6/8/1977
      Taking time out for a little relaxation from rehearsals, conductor Andre Kostelanetz yesterday enjoyed shirtsleeved comfort of a snunny afternoon on the hills surrounding the Forum at Ontario Place
      Taking time out for a little relaxation from rehearsals, conductor Andre Kostelanetz yesterday enjoyed shirtsleeved comfort of a snunny afternoon on the hills surrounding the Forum at Ontario Place
      Barkley, Harold
      7/15/1974
      The hills of connemara loom above this quiet stream where a visitor wets his line and hopes for, if not a trophy, at least his dinner. Such peaceful g(...)
      The hills of connemara loom above this quiet stream where a visitor wets his line and hopes for, if not a trophy, at least his dinner. Such peaceful g(...)
      Bryant, George
      7/12/1975
      Peaceful travel is one of the many reasons citizens along the 44 miles of the GO train system are using it with increasing frequency. Time to read the(...)
      Peaceful travel is one of the many reasons citizens along the 44 miles of the GO train system are using it with increasing frequency. Time to read the(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      5/14/1970
      Elliot Lake, a town of 8,000 mid-way between Sudbury and Sault Ste
      Elliot Lake, a town of 8,000 mid-way between Sudbury and Sault Ste
      Goode, Jeff
      2/18/1968
      Nakina residents, young and old, gather outside the town's CN station to show they are against the planned move of 50 railway families to Hornepayne
      Nakina residents, young and old, gather outside the town's CN station to show they are against the planned move of 50 railway families to Hornepayne
      Canadian National Railways
      2/27/1983
      Cobalt mayor Bruce Lonsdale won election four months ago by attacking planned cuts in the town's volunteer fire force
      Cobalt mayor Bruce Lonsdale won election four months ago by attacking planned cuts in the town's volunteer fire force
      Goode, Jeff
      5/25/1977
      Defying gravity, Pastor Deleon, who skateboards for Welches Wild Ones, gets an upside-down view of Richmond Hill's skateboard park at Bond Lake Arena.(...)
      Defying gravity, Pastor Deleon, who skateboards for Welches Wild Ones, gets an upside-down view of Richmond Hill's skateboard park at Bond Lake Arena.(...)
      Dunlop, Al
      8/29/1990