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| Workers: Ontario 20th Century: page 1 of 2 | |||
| Chippewa
Power Station Chippewa Power Station construction at Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1904.
Ontario Hydro followed in 1906 as a provincial hydro-power commission to buy, distribute
and sell electricity at cost to Ontario consumers. ID #20374 |
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| Early
Ontario Mining Two miners examining Northern Ontario quartz for precious metals,
probably relating to gold prospecting in the early Porcupine district. ID #21726 |
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| Underground
Hard-Rock Mining A diamond drill in the highly productive Hollinger gold mine at
Porcupine, Northern Ontario. ID #10012 |
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| Miner
with Drill ID #21978 |
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| Ontario
World War I Plant Woman worker in a Toronto, Ontario war plant producing
airplanes, 1918, stitching wing-webbing strips. ID #20172 |
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| World
War I Workers Women working on primers for shells at the Canadian General
Electric
Plant, Peterborough, Ontario, during World War I. ID #20850 |
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| Women
Typists Women typists in a Toronto office in 1918. ID #21053 |
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| Toronto
Dump A garbage dump on the Toronto waterfront, 1922. ID #10032 |
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| Unemployment
Line Unemployment line in Ontario, early 1930s. ID #20188 |
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| Relief
Work Municipal relief work in the form of road building, Rockliffe, Ottawa,
Ontario, winter 1933. ID #20557 |
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| Relief
Camp Workers at a provincial relief camp, Petawawa, Ontario, 1935. ID #20558 |
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