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80 Acres of Glistening Clay lie below workmen repairing the sluice gates on the Kelso Conservation Area dam
80 Acres of Glistening Clay lie below workmen repairing the sluice gates on the Kelso Conservation Area dam

80 Acres of Glistening Clay lie below workmen repairing the sluice gates on the Kelso Conservation Area dam

Date10/7/1975
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Original Toronto Star caption: 80 Acres of Glistening Clay lie below workmen repairing the sluice gates on the Kelso Conservation Area dam. It took two weeks to drain about 500 million gallons of water and empty Glen Eden Lake. Lake was created when dam was built 13 years ago. In about two weeks; gates of Hilton Falls Dam; high in the niagara escarpment; will be opened to fill lake to its normal level for winter.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0005161F
      Half a village farmhouses and part of a railroad line will vanish beneath 70 feet of water when the sluice gates of this Grand river dam at Fergus, On(...)
      Half a village farmhouses and part of a railroad line will vanish beneath 70 feet of water when the sluice gates of this Grand river dam at Fergus, On(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      3/22/1941
      Small boys skate on a big lake, Youngsters play an informal hockey game on the ice of Kelso Lake, in the Kelso Conservation Area near Milton, yesterda(...)
      Small boys skate on a big lake, Youngsters play an informal hockey game on the ice of Kelso Lake, in the Kelso Conservation Area near Milton, yesterda(...)
      Brennan, Pat
      12/29/1971
      Construction at Kelso Conservation Area in Milton, Ont.
      Construction at Kelso Conservation Area in Milton, Ont.
      Flavelle, Dana
      8/10/1981
      Caleb Moffat, 5, of Milton, beams with his first catch yesterday in a trout derby at Milton's Kelso Conservation Area
      Caleb Moffat, 5, of Milton, beams with his first catch yesterday in a trout derby at Milton's Kelso Conservation Area
      Stawicki, Andrew
      5/14/1988
      Racing the winter storms, Fred Hilton hurries to complete the roof of a log cabin at Kelso Conservation area
      Racing the winter storms, Fred Hilton hurries to complete the roof of a log cabin at Kelso Conservation area
      Brennan, Pat
      11/18/1971
      Workmen, real and stone: The eight huge figures outside the Electrical Building, just inside the Princes' Gates at the Canadian National Exhibition
      Workmen, real and stone: The eight huge figures outside the Electrical Building, just inside the Princes' Gates at the Canadian National Exhibition
      Canadian National Exhibition (Toronto, Ont.)
      5/16/1972
      Visitors to Algonquin Park can rent canoes and travel throughout the 1,862,402 acres of the park, but campers, who make up 80 per cent of the park's users, are restricted to a 60-mile arc on its southern border.
      Visitors to Algonquin Park can rent canoes and travel throughout the 1,862,402 acres of the park, but campers, who make up 80 per cent of the park's users, are restricted to a 60-mile arc on its southern border.
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      9/10/1969
      Vancouver's magnificent Stanley Park, nearly 1,000 acres spread along the waterfront, offers everything from birds (below) to bike trails (above) and (...)
      Vancouver's magnificent Stanley Park, nearly 1,000 acres spread along the waterfront, offers everything from birds (below) to bike trails (above) and (...)
      Spremo, Boris
      3/20/1982
      Vancouver's magnificent Stanley Park, nearly 1,000 acres spread along the waterfront, offers everything from birds (below) to bike trails (above) and (...)
      Vancouver's magnificent Stanley Park, nearly 1,000 acres spread along the waterfront, offers everything from birds (below) to bike trails (above) and (...)
      Spremo, Boris
      3/20/1982
      Vancouver's magnificent Stanley Park, nearly 1,000 acres spread along the waterfront, offers everything from birds (below)
      Vancouver's magnificent Stanley Park, nearly 1,000 acres spread along the waterfront, offers everything from birds (below)
      Spremo, Boris
      3/20/1982
      In Nathan Phillips square, the 11 1/2-acres in front of City Hall, former Toronto Mayor Nathan Phillips looks over area before his 79th birthday yesterday
      In Nathan Phillips square, the 11 1/2-acres in front of City Hall, former Toronto Mayor Nathan Phillips looks over area before his 79th birthday yesterday
      Goode, Jeff
      11/5/1971
      Waves Threaten Oakville Lakeshore Homes yesterday as winds of up to 40 miles an hour threw 10-foot waves hundreds of feet inland. Ten acres of area pa(...)
      Waves Threaten Oakville Lakeshore Homes yesterday as winds of up to 40 miles an hour threw 10-foot waves hundreds of feet inland. Ten acres of area pa(...)
      Brennan, Pat
      4/9/1973