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Amongst the hoo doos, or eroded dolomite shale formations, these amateur hunters are looking for fossilized skeletons and other petrified relics of th(...)
Amongst the hoo doos, or eroded dolomite shale formations, these amateur hunters are looking for fossilized skeletons and other petrified relics of th(...)

Amongst the hoo doos, or eroded dolomite shale formations, these amateur hunters are looking for fossilized skeletons and other petrified relics of th(...)

Date6/29/1946
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Original Toronto Star caption: Amongst the hoo doos; or eroded dolomite shale formations; these amateur hunters are looking for fossilized skeletons and other petrified relics of the ages; millions of years ago; when dinosaurs and other giant lizards roamed the marshes at the edge of the great prehistoric sea that covered Alberta and the prairies. The Royal Ontario Museum; Toronto; has one of the world's best collections of such fossils.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
      Usage Rights Public Domain (Learn More)
      Object NumberTSPA_0002038F
      Sharing their guard duties, a Montreal city policeman, a detective in plain clothes and a uniformed soldier from the Van Doos regiment, wearing a camo(...)
      Sharing their guard duties, a Montreal city policeman, a detective in plain clothes and a uniformed soldier from the Van Doos regiment, wearing a camo(...)
      Bezant, Graham
      10/15/1970
      Renowned Van Doos - Members of the French-speaking Royal 22nd Regiment - stand on guard outside Montreal's city hall today maintaining a shaky peace a(...)
      Renowned Van Doos - Members of the French-speaking Royal 22nd Regiment - stand on guard outside Montreal's city hall today maintaining a shaky peace a(...)
      Ross, Fred
      10/8/1969
      Comrades in arms from Governor-General George Vanier's old regiment -- Quebec's famed fighting Van Doos -- are shown as they arrived in Ottawa yesterd(...)
      Comrades in arms from Governor-General George Vanier's old regiment -- Quebec's famed fighting Van Doos -- are shown as they arrived in Ottawa yesterd(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      3/7/1967
      Quebec city, home of the famed Royal 22nd Regiment, the Van Doos, roared its welcome to its favorite son when he arrived there from Montreal for a civic reception
      Quebec city, home of the famed Royal 22nd Regiment, the Van Doos, roared its welcome to its favorite son when he arrived there from Montreal for a civic reception
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      3/31/1944
      Mobile Canadian Troops and their Hercules - The Plane that gets them in action fast, These Van Doos used the Here for their mission to Cyprus. Now it flies on exercises for NATO
      Mobile Canadian Troops and their Hercules - The Plane that gets them in action fast, These Van Doos used the Here for their mission to Cyprus. Now it flies on exercises for NATO
      Grant, Frank
      3/5/1966
      On the move to montreal soldiers of the Van Doos regiment quick-march to a line of helicopters waiting to airlift them to guard duty in the Montreal a(...)
      On the move to montreal soldiers of the Van Doos regiment quick-march to a line of helicopters waiting to airlift them to guard duty in the Montreal a(...)
      Griffin, Doug
      10/15/1970
      Scientific View: Children, like these studying Royal Ontario Museum skeletons of man and bear should be taught the biblical creation story as well as evolution, some fundamentalists say
      Scientific View: Children, like these studying Royal Ontario Museum skeletons of man and bear should be taught the biblical creation story as well as evolution, some fundamentalists say
      Goode, Jeff
      1/6/1981
      Cliff hope, technician in the ornithological section of the Royal Ontario Museum, shows the big and small of it in skeletons mounted fro research purp(...)
      Cliff hope, technician in the ornithological section of the Royal Ontario Museum, shows the big and small of it in skeletons mounted fro research purp(...)
      Richardson, Gerald
      2/2/1946
      Battle over: Charred skeletons are all that remain of the trees as Harris Lake cottager Cliff Shaw, 63, takes a breather after fighting a fire that threatened about 200 cottages
      Battle over: Charred skeletons are all that remain of the trees as Harris Lake cottager Cliff Shaw, 63, takes a breather after fighting a fire that threatened about 200 cottages
      Gardner, Scott
      7/29/1989
      Anthropology students are hard at work looking for relics of an Indian village which existed an estimated 450 years ago
      Anthropology students are hard at work looking for relics of an Indian village which existed an estimated 450 years ago
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      10/23/1948
      Excavations by Royal Ontario Museum party have uncovered numerous human bones and valuable historical relics
      Excavations by Royal Ontario Museum party have uncovered numerous human bones and valuable historical relics
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      9/11/1946
      Century-old ship Relics brought
      Century-old ship Relics brought
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      7/7/1932