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Ice hut shantytown: More than 4,000 ice fishing huts cover Lake Simcoe each winter
Ice hut shantytown: More than 4,000 ice fishing huts cover Lake Simcoe each winter

Ice hut shantytown: More than 4,000 ice fishing huts cover Lake Simcoe each winter

Date1/27/1988
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Original Toronto Star caption: Ice hut shantytown: More than 4;000 ice fishing huts cover Lake Simcoe each winter.
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0006971F
      Ice hut shantytown: More than 4,000 ice fishing huts cover Lake Simcoe each winter
      Ice hut shantytown: More than 4,000 ice fishing huts cover Lake Simcoe each winter
      McConnell, Colin
      1/27/1988
      Winding up the season. Ice fishing huts, by law, must be off lakes by the end of March, so the last of them were being removed from Lake Simcoe near J(...)
      Winding up the season. Ice fishing huts, by law, must be off lakes by the end of March, so the last of them were being removed from Lake Simcoe near J(...)
      Beaty, Keith
      3/31/1975
      Luck and lunch are both cold. Fishing huts still dot the thick ice of Lake Simcoe near Pefferlaw, but Stanley Black of Manilla, near Sunderland, prefe(...)
      Luck and lunch are both cold. Fishing huts still dot the thick ice of Lake Simcoe near Pefferlaw, but Stanley Black of Manilla, near Sunderland, prefe(...)
      Beaty, Keith
      1/28/1976
      On ice: Danny Brunato of Thornhill, left, and Bill Linders of Bill's Fishing Huts at Virginia Beach Marina, peek out of their fishing hut door with a sample of the day's catch
      On ice: Danny Brunato of Thornhill, left, and Bill Linders of Bill's Fishing Huts at Virginia Beach Marina, peek out of their fishing hut door with a sample of the day's catch
      Dunlop, Al
      1/11/1989
      So who needs a hut? Really making tracks, Edward Tiltins of Toronto goes ice fishing by driving his car right out onto the middle of Lake Simcoe and s(...)
      So who needs a hut? Really making tracks, Edward Tiltins of Toronto goes ice fishing by driving his car right out onto the middle of Lake Simcoe and s(...)
      Norris, Dave
      2/13/1974
      The Great Lake Simcoe Ice Fishing Derby started its 11th season Saturday and fish hut operators Terry reddings (left), Murray Tuck (riding the all-ter(...)
      The Great Lake Simcoe Ice Fishing Derby started its 11th season Saturday and fish hut operators Terry reddings (left), Murray Tuck (riding the all-ter(...)
      Dunlop, Al
      1/16/1992
      Star photographer Jeff Goode used a Nikon F3 with 85mm lens exposure 500th at F8 to shoot this strange sportsman on Lake Simcoe who decided to fish outside of his ice hut and brave the winter winds
      Star photographer Jeff Goode used a Nikon F3 with 85mm lens exposure 500th at F8 to shoot this strange sportsman on Lake Simcoe who decided to fish outside of his ice hut and brave the winter winds
      Goode, Jeff
      4/19/1983
      Swapping fish stories? Conservative leader Larry Grossman and son Jamie, 12, kick off the ice fishing season at Jackson's Point in a hut on Lake Simco(...)
      Swapping fish stories? Conservative leader Larry Grossman and son Jamie, 12, kick off the ice fishing season at Jackson's Point in a hut on Lake Simco(...)
      Grossman, Larry
      1/15/1986
      Hard-water habit: Jamie Eillis dips a line in a Lake Simcoe ice hut while Karyn James looks on
      Hard-water habit: Jamie Eillis dips a line in a Lake Simcoe ice hut while Karyn James looks on
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      1/21/1993
      Stephen Ouimette, actor in The History of the Village of the Small Huts, Part V, opening tomorrow at the Theatre Pass Muraille, scored 13 out of 15
      Stephen Ouimette, actor in The History of the Village of the Small Huts, Part V, opening tomorrow at the Theatre Pass Muraille, scored 13 out of 15
      Cimbron, Peter
      6/25/1991
      Ken Heyink (Henk's huts) Jackson's point
      Ken Heyink (Henk's huts) Jackson's point
      Loek, Dick
      2/3/1995
      Typical of the New construction in rural Cuba is this social centre built in village where just 10 years ago there were only a few scattered peasant huts. [Incomplete]
      Typical of the New construction in rural Cuba is this social centre built in village where just 10 years ago there were only a few scattered peasant huts. [Incomplete]
      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      1/11/1969