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Jun 30 2010

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Looking across Germania Rd. to where the tower and cabin once sat.
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The Draper tower in the winter of the late 1950s.
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Photos courtesy Brenda Allen.
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The same view as the modern shot I took looking across Germania Rd. at the Draper Tower and cabin taken from 1963's "The Forest Rangers".
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The junior rangers, Joe Two Rivers, Ranger Keeley, Topper and Sgt. Scott in front of the Dept. of Lands and Forests Chief Ranger Office in Indian River, Ontario (actually Kleinburg, Ontario). For more info look under the "Vaughan" listing on this site.
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Peter Keeley gets the forest fire bearings while Matt Craig radios them back to headquarters in Indian River where Chief Ranger George Keeley plots co-ordinates on the area map so fire crews can be sent out to the exact location to suppress the fire.
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Looking toward the cabin foundations from the tower footings
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In the tv series, Matt Craig ran the fire tower. This mock tower (cupola) was built on the top of the hill overlooking the Humber Valley at Kleinburg, Ontario. But the distant shots were of Draper Tower.
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tower footings
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