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Image shows a smaller boat "William Rest" with a big ship "Chicago Tribune" in the background.
Cold work. William Rest keeps chugging away, breaking up ice to keep channel free for Islands ferry - but not much else, is moving in Toronto harbor t(...)
Image shows a smaller boat "William Rest" with a big ship "Chicago Tribune" in the background.

Cold work. William Rest keeps chugging away, breaking up ice to keep channel free for Islands ferry - but not much else, is moving in Toronto harbor t(...)

Date1/8/1981
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Original Toronto Star caption: Cold work. William Rest keeps chugging away; breaking up ice to keep channel free for Islands ferry - but not much else; is moving in Toronto harbor these days. Harbor commission says 43 Great Lakes vessels are wintering here; 22 with cargo still on board.
Subject
GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
GeographyNeighbourhoodHarbour
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
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Photographs
Language
ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0112749F
Image shows ferries at city docks with high rise buildings under construction. 
Two Island ferries are tied up on the waterfront in the winter; with only the car ferry operating for the people who live on Algonquin and Ward's Islands. But the Harbor Police continue their 24-hour watch from a tower.
Goode, Jeff
14 December 1973
Image shows tugboat passing through the icy lake.
Sheathed in icicles, the bow of the Toronto Harbor Commission tug William Rest batters through the ice along the Toronto harbor waterfront. Harbor mus(...)
Feeny, Edwin
1/12/1971
Image shows a tugboat breaking ice for a ship.
Breaking ice six inches thick, the tugboat Bagotville grinds through Toronto harbor as it tows the Goderich to a winter berth at Pier 35. Another tug (...)
Spremo, Boris
1/17/1977
Image shows two tankers on the lake.
Settling in for a cold winter. These two Canadian long tankers, moored at Toronto Harbor's Pier 53, won't be going anywhere for the rest of the long, (...)
Spremo, Boris
12/22/1976
Image shows a tugboat with the Harbour buildings in the background.
New tug for Toronto. Toronto harbor commissioners yesterday went for a short trip aboard their new $200,000 tug, the William Rest. Here the ship, equi(...)
Darrell, Dick
n.d.
Image shows a few people working on board.
Getting set in the Harbor. Getting ready for the shipping season, the Toronto Harbor Commissioners' tug the Kenneth A. sets out the channel markers. C(...)
Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
3/27/1974
Image shows a gentleman walking on the snow covered lake. There is a sign that reads: Danger. I…
It's thin ice, but L.A.C. Joe Cleary, one of Toronto Island's 600 residents, goes ahead anyway. Here he is starting off across the bay
Toronto Star (Firm)
2/6/1945
Image shows a ship at the Harbour covered with ice and snow with a few people around.
Coast guard Ship Port Dauphine at pier after staggering into Toronto harbor heavy with ice and with a 12-degree list. Ship made a all-night run from east end of lake when heavy seas kept scientists aboard from working.
Dinsmore, Ted
1/10/1969
Black and white photo postcard depicting the Toronto harbourfront, dock, and ferries, with the …
Ferry Docks with Toronto skyline
Approximately 1950
Image shows three university students on the boat with the Harbour buildings in the background.
Kathy Hurley, Anne Graham and Irene Novachis pose on one of the four tour boats which will operate in Toronto harbor this summer. Girls are U of T students
Goode, Jeff
5/8/1972
Image shows a lake view with the Toronto's skyline in the background.
View from the Toronto Islands, Toronto Ontario. Clouds over Toronto from the Island
Morgan, Colleyna Mary Russell, 1871-1967
190-?
Image shows a cruise boat on the lake with a lot of trees on the shore in the background.
Hour-Long Cruises of Toronto's waterfront and the Islands' canals leave every 30 minutes between July and September from the foot of Yonge St. and the Ontario Place depot. At Present the boats leave every hour.
Feeny, Edwin
5/12/1972