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Title: [to be supplied]
Description: Caption on verso reads: "Dynamite blew the corner out of this new building project in North York today. The blast blew out windows a quarter of a mile away. No one was hurt. Owner Mark Goldenberg said he knew of no dispute over the apartment building." Additional annotations include : Sep 26 1961 R. Cole
Type: photographs
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 116 (839)
Date: 26 September 1961
Identifier: ASC50801
Identifier (PID): yul:1147068

Title: [to be supplied]
Description: Caption on verso reads: "Seven dynamite charges ripped large holes in $200.000 apartment building under constructiom on Wilson Ave. west of Avenue Rd. to cause $7,000 damage early this morning." Additional annotations include : Oct 10 1961 McGregor North York 4 x 6 1/2
Type: photographs
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 116 (839)
Date: 10 October 1961
Identifier: ASC50800
Identifier (PID): yul:1147060

Title: [to be supplied]
Description: Captions on verso read: "Slow burning fuse of a dynamite stick". "Toronto's Mad Bomberhas struck for the third time in 16 days. Seven charges of dynamite caused an estimated $7000 damage to a 20-suite, $200.000 apartment building under construction on Wilson Ave., just west of Avenue Rd. early today. The previous explosions, both in North York, also occurred at apartments under construction. Police believe the dynamiter to be a man who worked or still works for a construction firm." Additional annotations include : Oct 10 1961 McGregor 1 x 32
Type: photographs
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 116 (839)
Date: 10 October 1961
Identifier: ASC50799
Identifier (PID): yul:1147051

Title: [to be supplied]
Description: Caption on verso reads: "WHERE THE MEN WERE TRAPPED. Wall of unshored sewer trench collapsed on them". Additional annotations include : Oct 11 1961 Telegram "St. Andrew's Golf Course, North York".
Type: photographs
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 116 (839)
Date: 11 October 1961
Identifier: ASC50798
Identifier (PID): yul:1147028

Title: [to be supplied]
Description: Construction worker pouring concrete in underground tunnel on Sagenay St, North York, for story on work safety. "Night staff... pour concrete into forms in an area dug during the day by the face... note solid, steel arches supporting the dug tunnel".
Type: photographs
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 116 (839)
Date: 23 May [1962]
Identifier: ASC50797
Identifier (PID): yul:1146995

Title: Construction worker excavating tunnel using drill (possibly air spade) on Sagenay St, North York, for story on work safety
Description: Construction worker excavating tunnel using drill (possibly air spade) on Sagenay St, North York, for story on work safety. Day crew "cut away at the clay soil at the face of the tunnel... they move forward six feet a day"
Type: Photographs
Fonds: Toronto Telegram fonds (F0433)
Accession / Box: 1974-001 / 116 (839)
Date: 23 May 1962
Identifier: ASC50796
Identifier (PID): yul:1146925