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King of the jungle: Joseph Papineau, 62, recollects his home for the past 20 years has been the freight yards just north of the CN Tower
King of the jungle: Joseph Papineau, 62, recollects his home for the past 20 years has been the freight yards just north of the CN Tower

King of the jungle: Joseph Papineau, 62, recollects his home for the past 20 years has been the freight yards just north of the CN Tower

Date2/21/1974
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  • King of the jungle: Joseph Papineau, 62, recollects his home for the past 20 years has been the freight yards just north of the CN Tower
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
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Beaty, Keith
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Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
Bull, Ron
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Survival instructor Bill Garrard cuts a feather stick - an easy way to start a fire - during a demonstration of wilderness survival techniques in the Terra Cotta Conservation Area. Three fires 50 yards apart in a triangle is the standrad signal to alert a
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Dexter, Brian
1/22/1978
Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
Looking over Toronto's railway yards, Sanford Duplassie, 25, left White River in June when CP Rail laid off workers. There's a future here, he says. Only one of his friends has remained in the north. There's nothing there for the younger person. There's no industry. There's nothing. Over half the town is made up of pnsioners. His father is one of them. Sanford's 11 brothers and sisters are scattered across North America, from Texas to British Columbia.
Bull, Ron
12/5/1973
Tallest export?, Malachy Grant, left, designer of Toronto's CN Tower, and Edward Baldwin, architect, display their entry in an international design competition for a tower for tiny oil-rich Abu Dhabi
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Spremo, Boris
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Eldon Dolphin, CN Tower general manager.
Eldon Dolphin, CN Tower general manager.
Spremo, Boris
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Up he goes: Steve Silva, who once weighed 400 pounds and couldn't climb stairs, plans to scale the CN Tower 7 1/2 times on Sept
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Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
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Controller Fred Rodgers was back in front of his radar screen at Pearson airport yesterday, days after he helped persuade a suicidal pilot, not to crash his light plane into the CN Tower or a downtown hospital
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Calleja, Frank
4/18/1989
Two for sale: John Regan is the 22-year-old behind the Park and Sell lot across from the CN Tower on Front St
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Loek, Dick
6/4/1981
Ned Baldwin CN Tower architect
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Lautens, Richard
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The CN tower Lures UFOs into Ontraio, according to Henry McKay of Agincourt, a UFO investigator
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Bull, Ron
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Speaking from experience: In replying to suggestion that freight trains should have reflective material to make them visible at night, retired railway engineer Herbert Stitt points out that, in more than half the accidents in which he was involved, a car struck the train in daylight
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Cooper, David
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