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Clearing the way for the proposed Pickering airport, Tom Gretton rams his bulldozer into an old shed north of Brougham yesterday and goes right up on (...)
Clearing the way for the proposed Pickering airport, Tom Gretton rams his bulldozer into an old shed north of Brougham yesterday and goes right up on (...)

Clearing the way for the proposed Pickering airport, Tom Gretton rams his bulldozer into an old shed north of Brougham yesterday and goes right up on (...)

Date8/20/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: Clearing the way for the proposed Pickering airport, Tom Gretton rams his bulldozer into an old shed north of Brougham yesterday and goes right up on the roof. Vic Priestly, the owner of the firm doing the demolition, says he's neither for nor against planes, he simply has a contract to tear down 14 buildings, most of them barns and sheds. He says people in cars have been following his trucks to dumping areas. An anti-airport group has kept members from pickering.
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    GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
    GeographyProvince stateOntario
    GeographyCountryCanada
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0002861F
      This is a view of the main street of the villlage of Brougham, slated to make way for the proposed Pickering airport
      This is a view of the main street of the villlage of Brougham, slated to make way for the proposed Pickering airport
      Loek, Dick
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      McConnell, Colin
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      Goode, Jeff
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      Philp, Barry
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      Beaty, Keith
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      Erickson, Ray
      5/15/1973
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      Manufacturers Life Insurance
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      Lennon, Frank
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      Young boys from the Beth Tzedec nursery school listen to Rabbi Benjamin Friedberg explain the purpose of the shofar, or ram's horn, sounded to mark th(...)
      Friedberg, Rabbi Benjamin
      9/30/1976
      The battering rams
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      Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
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