Bronze bust stolen from lakeshore park, A $5,000 bronze bust of Sir Casimir Gzowski has been stolen from a park named for the exiled Polish engineer a(...)
Date9/3/1969
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Griffin, Doug
(photographer)
Toronto Star (Firm)
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Original Toronto Star caption: Bronze bust stolen from lakeshore park; A $5;000 bronze bust of Sir Casimir Gzowski has been stolen from a park named for the exiled Polish engineer at Lake Shore Blvd. W. and Ellis Ave.; police said today. The statue was reported missing by a Toronto Historical Board official who checked the site Tuesday. Gzowski was famous in Toronto in the 1840s as a road; railroad and bridge builder and for designing the park along the Canadian side of the Niagara River at Niagara Falls.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0105315F