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From Flickr: “MN DULUTH SOUTH BREAKWATER LIGHTHOUSE LIGHTHOUSE USCG US Coast Guard USLSS Life-Saving Service Lighthouses Lightships US Lighthouse Service USLHE US Lighthouse Establishment & US Bureau of Lighthouses” by UpNorth Memories – Donald (Don) Harrison

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From Flickr: “Second annual dinner of the Board of Trade of the City of Toronto” by Toronto Public Library Special Collections

This is a menu for the second annual dinner of the Toronto Board of Trade, held in 1889. The 127th such dinner will take place on January 26, but it will not be held at the Horticultural Gardens. One of our city’s earliest parks, it’s now called Allan Gardens, after Read More →

From Flickr: “The Great Fire at St. John, New Brunswick, June 20th 1877” by Toronto Public Library Special Collections

This lithograph depicts the great fire at St. John, NB, on June 20th, 1877. “The Fire broke out on York Point at half past two P.M. and burned furiously until after midnight, consuming several hundred buildings among which were the Post Office, Custom House, Academy of Music, eleven churches, a Read More →

From Flickr: “Launching of S.S. Corona, Toronto” by Toronto Public Library Special Collections

This wash-drawing (monochrome grey wash and opaque white over pencil) by William Thompson Freeland depicts the May 23, 1896, launch of the steamship Primrose from the wharf at the foot of Portland St. Wm was the son of the wharf owner (Robert) and grandson of Peter, who founded the wharf Read More →