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Rocky playground, but they love it
Rocky playground, but they love it

Rocky playground, but they love it

Date7/24/1984
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Original Toronto Star caption: Adventurous kids from Earlscourt Day Camp cavort in the rock pile and debris-strewn area where the old Maple Leaf baseball stadium once stood at the foot of Bathurst St. However, Harborfront Corp. will soon spoil their fun. The corporation is soon to start construction of two co-operative housing schemes on the site.
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CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTS-1-G-585B-MAPLELEAFSTADIUM01
Portables fill playground: From the roof of St. Roch Separate School on Duncanwoods Dr. in North York, Metro Separate School Board Chairman Bruno Suppa can see pupils play among 20 portable classrooms that occupy most of the playground. Yet a few streets away, Whitfield Public School is more than half empty. The province is trying to make the public and separate systems co-operate in using available space.
Portables fill playground: From the roof of St. Roch Separate School on Duncanwoods Dr. in North York, Metro Separate School Board Chairman Bruno Suppa can see pupils play among 20 portable classrooms that occupy most of the playground. Yet a few streets away, Whitfield Public School is more than half empty. The province is trying to make the public and separate systems co-operate in using available space.
2/15/1980
No boy can resist the rope ladder climb to the tree house in the older children's playground at the Canadian Creative Centre at Expo. Playground, whic(...)
No boy can resist the rope ladder climb to the tree house in the older children's playground at the Canadian Creative Centre at Expo. Playground, whic(...)
8/8/1967
Looking north from Dundas Street West and the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks showing West Toronto Secondary School and MacGregor Playground on right, Toronto, Ont.
Looking north from Dundas Street West and the Canadian Pacific Railway tracks showing West Toronto Secondary School and MacGregor Playground on right, Toronto, Ont.
1980
Mayor David Crombie up the pole at John Wanless playground opening yesterday
Mayor David Crombie up the pole at John Wanless playground opening yesterday
11/12/1977
Silver Award Medallion from City Playgrounds - Toronto, Donated by Reg Redmond, Inscription on back, Jr
Silver Award Medallion from City Playgrounds - Toronto, Donated by Reg Redmond, Inscription on back, Jr
192-?
Large Silver Medallion from City Playgrounds - Toronto, Donated by Reg Redmond, Inscription on back, Champions of East Toronto League, 1921 - G. O'Brien
Large Silver Medallion from City Playgrounds - Toronto, Donated by Reg Redmond, Inscription on back, Champions of East Toronto League, 1921 - G. O'Brien
1921
Laughter Echoes in the halls of a downtown hotel which the Dionne quintuplets have turned into a playground between appearances at the Victory Loan ra(...)
Laughter Echoes in the halls of a downtown hotel which the Dionne quintuplets have turned into a playground between appearances at the Victory Loan ra(...)
10/28/1943
Image shows a playground with some trees in the background.
Leslie Grove playground (Mosquito Park) Neg #25
1986-07
After 18 months of work and $13 million, Ontario Place is taking shape as a 90-acre playground, a watery haven of beaches, lagoons, boutiques, enterta(...)
After 18 months of work and $13 million, Ontario Place is taking shape as a 90-acre playground, a watery haven of beaches, lagoons, boutiques, enterta(...)
10/28/1970
Deadly plaything: Coroner Kevin Flynn examines the skipping rope noose at the top of a playground slide on which 5-year-old Sahal Ismail was strangled yesterday at a Peel housing project.
Deadly plaything: Coroner Kevin Flynn examines the skipping rope noose at the top of a playground slide on which 5-year-old Sahal Ismail was strangled yesterday at a Peel housing project.
2/23/1992
Ontario place rises from the lake, Ontario Place, a $13 million futuristic playground on and between four man-made islands off Exhibition Park, is rea(...)
Ontario place rises from the lake, Ontario Place, a $13 million futuristic playground on and between four man-made islands off Exhibition Park, is rea(...)
10/29/1970
Supervised playgrounds: one of the greatest needs in Toronto to-day
Supervised playgrounds: one of the greatest needs in Toronto to-day
[1906?]