Description1922 TTC Streetcars for Haileybury Mod 1a 4.jpg
English: Retired Streetcars Provide Shelter After Tragic Forest Fire
In late September 1922, a forest fire swept through 18 townships in Northern Ontario and left 11,000 people homeless. The TTC was able to provide temporary housing for some of the victims in the form of 85 donated streetcars.
The approach of winter made the need for housing urgent, and the retired streetcars were just what was needed. The car bodies had been stored at Coxwell Yard waiting to be scrapped for parts until they were shipped to the mining community of Haileybury, ON.
This Canadian work is in the public domain in Canada because its copyright has expired due to one of the following:
1. it was subject to Crown copyright and was first published more than 50 years ago, or
it was not subject to Crown copyright, and
2. it is a photograph that was created prior to January 1, 1949, or
3. the creator died prior to January 1, 1972.
You must also include a United States public domain tag to indicate why this work is in the public domain in the United States. Note that this work might not be in the public domain in countries that do not apply the rule of the shorter term and have copyright terms longer than life of the author plus 50 years. In particular, Mexico is 100 years, Jamaica is 95 years, Colombia is 80 years, Guatemala and Samoa are 75 years, Switzerland and the United States are 70 years, and Venezuela is 60 years.
Public domain works must be out of copyright in both the United States and in the source country of the work in order to be hosted on the Commons. If the work is not a U.S. work, the file must have an additional copyright tag indicating the copyright status in the source country. Note: This tag should not be used for sound recordings.PD-1923Public domain in the United States//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1922_TTC_Streetcars_for_Haileybury_Mod_1a_4.jpg
Captions
Add a one-line explanation of what this file represents