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Counry in the city is the idea most residents of Metro have of their parks and yesterday Joseph Laface took his wife for a ride in a rented rowboart o(...)
Counry in the city is the idea most residents of Metro have of their parks and yesterday Joseph Laface took his wife for a ride in a rented rowboart o(...)

Counry in the city is the idea most residents of Metro have of their parks and yesterday Joseph Laface took his wife for a ride in a rented rowboart o(...)

Date7/10/1974
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Original Toronto Star caption: Counry in the city is the idea most residents of Metro have of their parks and yesterday Joseph Laface took his wife for a ride in a rented rowboart on Grenadier pond in High Park. Elsewhere in the big park; which is run by the City of Towonto; senior citizens were playing cards in a shady nook and boys were angling for bass; perch and sunfish in the pond or just running through lawn sprinklers.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0114499F
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In Railroad clothes, Bill Metcalf makes a speech to fellow residents of Ward's Island at their picnic-party yesterday celebrating the second year they have stayed on the Islands since Metro finally ordered them off
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