Throwback Thursday: Carrying Dynamite To Blow Up Riverdale Park, Broadview Avenue

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Throwback Thursday: Carrying Dynamite To Blow Up Riverdale Park, Broadview Avenue

How does that headline grab you!? No need to call the police though, this picture is from 1907.

The Toronto Archives provided this provocative title for the image, but there is no context or detail as to what exactly was going to be blown up. Sometimes dynamite was used to break up ice jams in the river, but there could have been some landscaping work that needed a little extra help too.

Regardless, great picture.

Carrying dynamite to blow up Riverdale Park, Broadview Avenue. - [ca. 1907]

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