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Perhaps the biggest white oak tree in southern Ontario is doomed to destruction to make way for the Spadina Expressway, John Rea, who has helped care (...)
Perhaps the biggest white oak tree in southern Ontario is doomed to destruction to make way for the Spadina Expressway, John Rea, who has helped care (...)

Perhaps the biggest white oak tree in southern Ontario is doomed to destruction to make way for the Spadina Expressway, John Rea, who has helped care (...)

Date8/25/1967
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Original Toronto Star caption: Perhaps the biggest white oak tree in southern Ontario is doomed to destruction to make way for the Spadina Expressway; John Rea; who has helped care for it for 37 years; also loses his house to the road.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0115163F
Circus, elephants, on way to Dufferin Park Race Track, perhaps on Brock Avenue
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1920 circa
Pushing southward into heart of Metro, despite protests by many residents along its proposed route, the Spadina Expressway has now been completed as f(...)
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2/10/1984
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Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Streets and Expressways - Spadina - Aerial View
Canada - Ontario - Toronto - Streets and Expressways - Spadina - Aerial View
2/4/1985
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Perhaps few at a glance can spot the gypsy in this beauty is none other than Gypsy Rose Lee of burlesque of literary fame, too, for she has published a best-selling book
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Mike Clemons. Pinball eyeing $200,000. Argo Mike (Pinball) Clemons is expected to sing a contract, perhaps today, that would make him the [Incomplete]
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