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Gas crater

Gas crater

Date5/6/1980
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Original Toronto Star caption: Gas crater: Firemen; police and workmen checked a hole 15 feet deep by 20 feet across created by escaping natural gas from a ruptured main yesterday. Two Etobicoke streets in the Kipling Ave.-Dundas and Bloor Sts. W. area were evacuated after a backhoe da
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      ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
      CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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      Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
      Object NumberTSPA_0008193F
      Gas crater: Firemen, police and workmen check hole 15 feet deep by 20 feet across created by escaping gas from a ruptured main today
      Gas crater: Firemen, police and workmen check hole 15 feet deep by 20 feet across created by escaping gas from a ruptured main today
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      5/6/1980
      Steel man in gas is A. R. (Ted) McMurrich, a vice-president of Stelco and new president of the Canadian Gas Association. The connection: Natural gas f(...)
      Steel man in gas is A. R. (Ted) McMurrich, a vice-president of Stelco and new president of the Canadian Gas Association. The connection: Natural gas f(...)
      Loek, Dick
      5/18/1972
      Jewel gas stoves and gas appliances for cooking and heating for manufactured or natural gas
      Jewel gas stoves and gas appliances for cooking and heating for manufactured or natural gas
      Burrow, Stewart & Milne Co.
      1916?
      Cover has embossed text in varied font-type, coloured in tones of silver, framed by embossed do…
      Jewel gas stoves and gas appliances for cooking and heating for manufactured or natural gas: catalogue no. 74
      Burrow, Stewart & Milne Co.
      Approximately 1916
      Image shows a crater in the street and some workers around it.
      Huge Crater on Bathurst St., caused by flooding when a 36-inch water main broke last night, is pumped clear of water by city workmen today. The crater(...)
      Barkley, Harold
      9/23/1970
      The gas grievance and remedy, a brief history of the progress of gas manufacture in Toronto
      The gas grievance and remedy, a brief history of the progress of gas manufacture in Toronto
      Consumers' Gas Company
      1860
      Wearing Gas Masks rushed from Montreal in face of tear gas threat by C
      Wearing Gas Masks rushed from Montreal in face of tear gas threat by C
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      6/18/1948
      Members of the cadet corps at St. Andrew's College wore gas masks and marched through clouds of make-believe poison gas for their annual inspection in May 1942, Aurora, Ontario
      Members of the cadet corps at St. Andrew's College wore gas masks and marched through clouds of make-believe poison gas for their annual inspection in May 1942, Aurora, Ontario
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      1942-05
      High-tech gas bar: Esso is testing an automated system of selling gas at one Metro station with a credit-card machine that operates like a bank cash dispenser
      High-tech gas bar: Esso is testing an automated system of selling gas at one Metro station with a credit-card machine that operates like a bank cash dispenser
      Griffin, Doug
      1/31/1985
      'Powdered suspect': Gas-masked police lead away hostage-taking suspect covered in tear-gas powder
      'Powdered suspect': Gas-masked police lead away hostage-taking suspect covered in tear-gas powder
      Cooper, David
      6/5/1986
      Island gas mains washed out. Many Island residents were handicapped yesterday when a gas main was broken by waves of a southeast gale which pounded th(...)
      Island gas mains washed out. Many Island residents were handicapped yesterday when a gas main was broken by waves of a southeast gale which pounded th(...)
      James, H.
      9/22/1928
      Gas attack: Wearing a mask to protect himself from flumes, a policeman prepares to fire a tear gas shell into a Scarborough variety store today
      Gas attack: Wearing a mask to protect himself from flumes, a policeman prepares to fire a tear gas shell into a Scarborough variety store today
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      11/28/1991