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Warning Polluted Waters Persons Bathing Do So At Their Own Risk, Pollution Warning Marking a beach in Metro
Warning Polluted Waters Persons Bathing Do So At Their Own Risk, Pollution Warning Marking a beach in Metro

Warning Polluted Waters Persons Bathing Do So At Their Own Risk, Pollution Warning Marking a beach in Metro

Date7/25/1969
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Original Toronto Star caption: Warning Polluted Waters Persons Bathing Do So At Their Own Risk; Pollution Warning Marking a beach in Metro
GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
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Photographs
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0010995F
Warning signs are a regular summer feature of Toronto's polluted waterfront
Warning signs are a regular summer feature of Toronto's polluted waterfront
Slaughter, Mike
7/24/1986
Sign of the times: The warnings against using Metro's beaches may be up indefinitely, as officials fear sewer improvements, costing $250 million, may not be enough to clean up pollution
Sign of the times: The warnings against using Metro's beaches may be up indefinitely, as officials fear sewer improvements, costing $250 million, may not be enough to clean up pollution
Griffin, Doug
7/26/1987
Two oil drums from the tanker Arrow come to rest on a polluted beach near Artichat, N
Two oil drums from the tanker Arrow come to rest on a polluted beach near Artichat, N
Spremo, Boris
2/14/1970
It's a clear water wagon, This truck-mounted portable water treatment plant, built by Union Carbide, was too big to get into the Pollution Control Sho(...)
It's a clear water wagon, This truck-mounted portable water treatment plant, built by Union Carbide, was too big to get into the Pollution Control Sho(...)
Barkley, Harold
6/15/1972
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
Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
4/5/1971
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(...)
Darrell, Dick
5/14/1971
Members of pollution probe who issued scathing report on provincial bungling in preserving Ontario's water resources, from left, Ruth Kelly, Peter Mid(...)
Members of pollution probe who issued scathing report on provincial bungling in preserving Ontario's water resources, from left, Ruth Kelly, Peter Mid(...)
Spremo, Boris
10/29/1970
Polluted ditch behind Scarborough apartment buildings is a potential death trap for children, many mothers believe
Polluted ditch behind Scarborough apartment buildings is a potential death trap for children, many mothers believe
Bull, Ron
4/4/1972
Dirty black smoke rises from the polluted shore of Chedabucto Bay in Nova Scotia in an experiment to get rid of the mass of oil from the wrecked tanke(...)
Dirty black smoke rises from the polluted shore of Chedabucto Bay in Nova Scotia in an experiment to get rid of the mass of oil from the wrecked tanke(...)
Spremo, Boris
2/14/1970
Sunnyside beach gets a sweep-up, A bulldozer working in the water at the western end of Sunnyside beach piles up broken concrete, that had lined the w(...)
Sunnyside beach gets a sweep-up, A bulldozer working in the water at the western end of Sunnyside beach piles up broken concrete, that had lined the w(...)
Griffin, Doug
5/9/1971
Pollution probe spokesman Peter Love wants returnable bottles brought back to ease pollution caused by pull-top cans, as seen above. He refutes critic(...)
Pollution probe spokesman Peter Love wants returnable bottles brought back to ease pollution caused by pull-top cans, as seen above. He refutes critic(...)
Goode, Jeff
8/28/1969
Hosing down: Workers with high-pressure hoses use warmed water to clean a Prince William Sound beach
Hosing down: Workers with high-pressure hoses use warmed water to clean a Prince William Sound beach
Spremo, Boris
5/29/1989