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Behind Sandbags: Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hibbard watch Lake Ontario hit the Frenchman's Bay shoreline yesterday as sandbags protect their home
Behind Sandbags: Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hibbard watch Lake Ontario hit the Frenchman's Bay shoreline yesterday as sandbags protect their home

Behind Sandbags: Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hibbard watch Lake Ontario hit the Frenchman's Bay shoreline yesterday as sandbags protect their home

Date4/9/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Behind Sandbags: Mr. and Mrs. Michael Hibbard watch Lake Ontario hit the Frenchman's Bay shoreline yesterday as sandbags protect their home.
Subject
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Pickering
Geograhical feature:Ontario, Lake (Ont.)
Province or state:Ontario
Region or district:Durham (Ont. : Regional municipality)
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0007207F
On the shore of Lake Erie, Eva Malolepszy and Nora Srokosz fill and stack sandbags outside their home in Harich Township as the already-high lake threatens houses
On the shore of Lake Erie, Eva Malolepszy and Nora Srokosz fill and stack sandbags outside their home in Harich Township as the already-high lake threatens houses
3/16/1973
Volunteers help pile 12,000 sandbags around farmer Ed Zylema's home near Winnipeg
Volunteers help pile 12,000 sandbags around farmer Ed Zylema's home near Winnipeg
4/25/1979
4. A line of volunteers are placing sandbags on of the weaker parts of the dikes
4. A line of volunteers are placing sandbags on of the weaker parts of the dikes
4/22/1974
Sandbags guard beaches against lake, Cathryn Moss stands watch last night on sandbags that keep the water Lake Ontario out of the Balmy Beach Club and nearby boathouses
Sandbags guard beaches against lake, Cathryn Moss stands watch last night on sandbags that keep the water Lake Ontario out of the Balmy Beach Club and nearby boathouses
3/8/1979
Sandbags guard eastern beaches, Sixteen-year-old Dale Lockhart guides her blind poodle, Merry Christmas, along a sandbag wall built by the city parks (...)
Sandbags guard eastern beaches, Sixteen-year-old Dale Lockhart guides her blind poodle, Merry Christmas, along a sandbag wall built by the city parks (...)
9 March 1973
Flooding around a home on Frenchman's Bay
Flooding around a home on Frenchman's Bay
3/5/1973
Volunteers worked late into the night building sandbag walls against 10-feet waves which threatened Lakeshore Rd
Volunteers worked late into the night building sandbag walls against 10-feet waves which threatened Lakeshore Rd
4/9/1973
A disaster Area is how Jack Moore describes the scene down the Lake Ontario shoreline from his Squires Beach home in Pickering yesterday. [Incomplete]
A disaster Area is how Jack Moore describes the scene down the Lake Ontario shoreline from his Squires Beach home in Pickering yesterday. [Incomplete]
4/10/1973
Surrounded by water following the recent storm and flooding along the Lake Erie shoreline, is this farm in the small community of Erieau, south of Chatham. [Incomplete]
Surrounded by water following the recent storm and flooding along the Lake Erie shoreline, is this farm in the small community of Erieau, south of Chatham. [Incomplete]
4/11/1973
West Hill Army Cadets work in 36-degree water to sandbag the shoreline next to four houses in Pickering Township threatened by the rising waters of La(...)
West Hill Army Cadets work in 36-degree water to sandbag the shoreline next to four houses in Pickering Township threatened by the rising waters of La(...)
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Dorothy Robinson watches from the window as waves hit her lakeshore home at Bay Ridges yesterday
Dorothy Robinson watches from the window as waves hit her lakeshore home at Bay Ridges yesterday
4/9/1973
Mrs. Alice Newberry, of water street in Wallaceburg Ontario
Mrs. Alice Newberry, of water street in Wallaceburg Ontario
3/16/1973