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Down on the farm: Cutting the family Christmas tree provides fun and exercise for the family, but after it's in the home, it can become a potential safety hazard unless proper precautions are taken
Down on the farm: Cutting the family Christmas tree provides fun and exercise for the family, but after it's in the home, it can become a potential safety hazard unless proper precautions are taken

Down on the farm: Cutting the family Christmas tree provides fun and exercise for the family, but after it's in the home, it can become a potential safety hazard unless proper precautions are taken

Date12/17/1976
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Original Toronto Star caption: Down on the farm: Cutting the family Christmas tree provides fun and exercise for the family; but after it's in the home; it can become a potential safety hazard unless proper precautions are taken.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0018283F
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Holiday Haul: Children drag a Christmas tree from the Horton Tree Farm
Holiday Haul: Children drag a Christmas tree from the Horton Tree Farm
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14 Recommendations for taking better safety precautions in gas pipeline installations came out of the coroner s inquest into the October, 1969, pipeli(...)
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Safety precautions
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It's tough going but Joey Birt, 5, (left) and Michael LeBlanc, 5, at the big end of the Christmas tree and George Christie bringing up the rear manage(...)
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