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Tree-Mendous: This 4-metre (14-foot) Scotch pine tree requires six hands to transport it
Tree-Mendous: This 4-metre (14-foot) Scotch pine tree requires six hands to transport it

Tree-Mendous: This 4-metre (14-foot) Scotch pine tree requires six hands to transport it

Date12/12/1986
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Original Toronto Star caption: Tree-Mendous: This 4-metre (14-foot) Scotch pine tree requires six hands to transport it.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0018276F
Look way up: Judy Schwartz's North York property boasts this 117-foot (about 36-metre) tall basswood, the tallest of the tall in the tallest tree caterogy of the great North York Tree Hunt
Look way up: Judy Schwartz's North York property boasts this 117-foot (about 36-metre) tall basswood, the tallest of the tall in the tallest tree caterogy of the great North York Tree Hunt
1/17/1990
A tall order: Mike Crosby, owner of Erin Tree Farm in Erin Township, shoulders a Scotch pine Christmas tree and prepares it for shipment. His pay-and-cut farm is on Concession 10, 4 kilometres north of Highway 24.
A tall order: Mike Crosby, owner of Erin Tree Farm in Erin Township, shoulders a Scotch pine Christmas tree and prepares it for shipment. His pay-and-cut farm is on Concession 10, 4 kilometres north of Highway 24.
11/25/1990
Transplanting a tree is a tough job in any circumstance-but it's a lot harder when the tree is a delicate, 40-foot-high Schwedlerei maple from norther(...)
Transplanting a tree is a tough job in any circumstance-but it's a lot harder when the tree is a delicate, 40-foot-high Schwedlerei maple from norther(...)
2/26/1976
Christmas Trees start their Long Journeys, Getting read for Christmas, the harvest is under way at Richardson Farms, north of Orono, where 250,000 Scotch pines grow on the 400 acres
Christmas Trees start their Long Journeys, Getting read for Christmas, the harvest is under way at Richardson Farms, north of Orono, where 250,000 Scotch pines grow on the 400 acres
11/11/1974
Timber!: Tara Gauthier, 5, left, puts blade to trunk as Brian McGee, 4, and Keith Horton of Horton Tree Farm help out during Wexford Public School students' outing to cut their own
Timber!: Tara Gauthier, 5, left, puts blade to trunk as Brian McGee, 4, and Keith Horton of Horton Tree Farm help out during Wexford Public School students' outing to cut their own
11/30/1987
Young foresters: Five-year-old Joseph Piteo, left, has trouble cutting down a Christmas tree despite a helping hand from classmate Philip Perzia
Young foresters: Five-year-old Joseph Piteo, left, has trouble cutting down a Christmas tree despite a helping hand from classmate Philip Perzia
11/28/1986
Starting Small: Vanessa Tyson, 6, gets a hand as she and 800 other school children mark Tree Day yesterday by planting 1,200 trees in Riverdale Park
Starting Small: Vanessa Tyson, 6, gets a hand as she and 800 other school children mark Tree Day yesterday by planting 1,200 trees in Riverdale Park
4/21/1992
Pupils hunt a Christmas Tree. Three of 300 Toronto school children making their annual Christmas tree trek to Drysdale Tree Farm near Ballantree get s(...)
Pupils hunt a Christmas Tree. Three of 300 Toronto school children making their annual Christmas tree trek to Drysdale Tree Farm near Ballantree get s(...)
12/5/1968
Tree-Mendous Effort. Craig McIntosh, 6, (left) a Beaver, and his brother Andrew, 8, a Wolf Club in Scarborough, will plant this seedling Saturday under the Trees for canada project
Tree-Mendous Effort. Craig McIntosh, 6, (left) a Beaver, and his brother Andrew, 8, a Wolf Club in Scarborough, will plant this seedling Saturday under the Trees for canada project
4/22/1990
Octopus Tree, High Park's 225-year-old oak tree was being cut down today, the victim of old age and many lightning strikes
Octopus Tree, High Park's 225-year-old oak tree was being cut down today, the victim of old age and many lightning strikes
11/16/1983
Everybody still on?, A tractor pulls a flatbed full of parents and children on their way to chop down a tree at Horton Tree Farms yesterday
Everybody still on?, A tractor pulls a flatbed full of parents and children on their way to chop down a tree at Horton Tree Farms yesterday
12/16/1984
Horton Tree Farm worker Jamie Hopkins shows young school children how a cut Christmas tree is tied up with a mesh net by machine to make it easier to (...)
Horton Tree Farm worker Jamie Hopkins shows young school children how a cut Christmas tree is tied up with a mesh net by machine to make it easier to (...)
12/17/1976