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Rubbish floating in the Don River
Rubbish floating in the Don River

Rubbish floating in the Don River

Date1/18/1963
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Original Toronto Star caption: Rubbish floating in the Don River. No one will predict swimming ever will be possible.How not to treat a river- the filth-choked Don. But even this horrible example is yielding to treatment.
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Country:Canada
City, town or township:Toronto
Province or state:Ontario
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTS-2-125-GO-021
Lab technicians Keith Austen (foreground) and Harry Alkema test Lake Ontario water samples for nutrients aboard the motor vessel Martin Karlsen, a floating pollution research laboratory
Lab technicians Keith Austen (foreground) and Harry Alkema test Lake Ontario water samples for nutrients aboard the motor vessel Martin Karlsen, a floating pollution research laboratory
4/5/1971
River clean-up yields 39 cars, Don Stacey holds twisted metal he found down the side of a steep ravine in the Humber River Valley west of Kleinberg
River clean-up yields 39 cars, Don Stacey holds twisted metal he found down the side of a steep ravine in the Humber River Valley west of Kleinberg
9/13/1988
A Sample of water is taken from the west-branch of Don River yesterday by Mayor William Dennison, to be sent to a laboratory for a pollution test. May(...)
A Sample of water is taken from the west-branch of Don River yesterday by Mayor William Dennison, to be sent to a laboratory for a pollution test. May(...)
5/14/1971
Spare the air: Warnings about Toronto's air quality weren't enough to keep these cars off the Don Valley Parkway last week
Spare the air: Warnings about Toronto's air quality weren't enough to keep these cars off the Don Valley Parkway last week
6/25/1998
Water from the Don Ontario 230 million gal-
Water from the Don Ontario 230 million gal-
4/21/1970
John Gerochristodoulu picks up a dead fish, one of hundreds killed last summer when a blocked sewer allowed liquid from a Scarborough dye firm to spill into Massey Creek, a Don tributary
John Gerochristodoulu picks up a dead fish, one of hundreds killed last summer when a blocked sewer allowed liquid from a Scarborough dye firm to spill into Massey Creek, a Don tributary
7/21/1988
Observers were recruited to don hip waders and place booms across Sixteen Mile Creek during demonstration
Observers were recruited to don hip waders and place booms across Sixteen Mile Creek during demonstration
11/16/1978
NDP foes meet: David Lewis, deputy leader of the New Democratic Party, faces Professor Melville Watkins (right) after Lewis had called Watkins' proposal for a mass NDP shift to the left horribly indigestible rubbish
NDP foes meet: David Lewis, deputy leader of the New Democratic Party, faces Professor Melville Watkins (right) after Lewis had called Watkins' proposal for a mass NDP shift to the left horribly indigestible rubbish
10/31/1969
Oil cleared from the humber, A boom is spread across the Humber River at Finch Ave
Oil cleared from the humber, A boom is spread across the Humber River at Finch Ave
11/14/1972
Monica Campbell, Pollution Probe
Monica Campbell, Pollution Probe
3/2/1983
Aerial evidence: Pilot Bettina Jenkins and surveillance officer Ron Johnson with Photos Skywatch has used to nail polluters
Aerial evidence: Pilot Bettina Jenkins and surveillance officer Ron Johnson with Photos Skywatch has used to nail polluters
12/5/1995
A Few of the ninety-nines
A Few of the ninety-nines
12/5/1995