Skip to main content
Digital Archive Ontario Homepage
Listening to Police plea for permission to erect a 320-foot radio communications tower in Winston Churchill Park, members of Toronto's buildings and d(...)
Listening to Police plea for permission to erect a 320-foot radio communications tower in Winston Churchill Park, members of Toronto's buildings and d(...)

Listening to Police plea for permission to erect a 320-foot radio communications tower in Winston Churchill Park, members of Toronto's buildings and d(...)

Date8/31/1970
Names
(photographer)
Alternate Title
  • Listening to Police plea for permission to erect a 320-foot radio communications tower in Winston Churchill Park, members of Toronto's buildings and d(...)
  • Listening to Police plea for permission to erect a 320-foot radio communications tower in Winston Churchill Park; members of Toronto's buildings and development committee listen as Constable Syd Brown; president of Metro Police Association; describes need. From left; aldermen Fred Beavis; Ben Grys. Thomas Wardle; Paul Pickett and Allan Lamport. All five of them voted for the park site.
FormatPicture
Notes
Original Toronto Star caption: Listening to Police plea for permission to erect a 320-foot radio communications tower in Winston Churchill Park; members of Toronto's buildings and development committee listen as Constable Syd Brown; president of Metro Police Association; describes need. From left; aldermen Fred Beavis; Ben Grys. Thomas Wardle; Paul Pickett and Allan Lamport. All five of them voted for the park site.
Medium
Language
    ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
    CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
    Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
    Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
    Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0111233F
    Geography
    Geography
    Geography
    Geography
    Geography
    Geography
    Geography
    Geography
    Geography
    Geography
    Geography
    Syl Brothers works on top of the controversial police communications tower in Sir Winston Churchill park, on Spadina Rd
    Syl Brothers works on top of the controversial police communications tower in Sir Winston Churchill park, on Spadina Rd
    Spremo, Boris
    9/27/1973
    These three pilots are the men who fly Olga, the giant sikorsky S-64E helicopter being used to erect the 335-foot antenna on top of Toronto's CN Tower(...)
    These three pilots are the men who fly Olga, the giant sikorsky S-64E helicopter being used to erect the 335-foot antenna on top of Toronto's CN Tower(...)
    Spremo, Boris
    3/19/1975
    Two items Jack Himself Cohen won't sell are tiny china plates bearing picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill he paid 50 cents for 25years ago.
    Two items Jack Himself Cohen won't sell are tiny china plates bearing picture of Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill he paid 50 cents for 25years ago.
    Teskey, Frank
    6/13/1972
    Home of the hits: John Parikhal has spun an ability to find out what the public wants into Joint Communications, a nine-year-old company he formed with radio veteran Dave Charles
    Home of the hits: John Parikhal has spun an ability to find out what the public wants into Joint Communications, a nine-year-old company he formed with radio veteran Dave Charles
    Toronto Star (Firm)
    5/7/1986
    Artist Charles Pachter, left, says City Council is making a big mistake if it lets a 10-foot statue of Winston Churchill go up in Nathan Phillips Square. The proposal goes before council on Wednesday
    Artist Charles Pachter, left, says City Council is making a big mistake if it lets a 10-foot statue of Winston Churchill go up in Nathan Phillips Square. The proposal goes before council on Wednesday
    Spremo, Boris
    9/24/1979
    Communications tower, Roselawn Avenue, northwest corner of Avenue Road, Toronto, Ontario. Image…
    Communications tower, Roselawn Avenue, northwest corner of Avenue Road, Toronto, Ontario
    Scott, Peter
    1981-08
    The star Sports Editor Jim Proudfoot sits in the 80,000-seat stadium, with the futuristic communications tower, the symbol of the 1972 Olympic Games, in background
    The star Sports Editor Jim Proudfoot sits in the 80,000-seat stadium, with the futuristic communications tower, the symbol of the 1972 Olympic Games, in background
    Bezant, Graham
    8/24/1972
    honored, Mayor Hughes and Deputy Chief James Noble of police, inspects 709 Toronto Communications Regiment, a militia unit. The unit was given freedom(...)
    honored, Mayor Hughes and Deputy Chief James Noble of police, inspects 709 Toronto Communications Regiment, a militia unit. The unit was given freedom(...)
    Beavis, Fred
    10/22/1978
    Friendly soccer games have been going on in Sir Winston Churchill Park for years, with people aged 4 to 40 using waste baskets as goal posts and invit(...)
    Friendly soccer games have been going on in Sir Winston Churchill Park for years, with people aged 4 to 40 using waste baskets as goal posts and invit(...)
    Combs, Erin
    8/1/1974
    Image shows some trees.
    Sir Winston Churchill Park, stream diverted into culvert around St. Clair Avenue West, east of Wells Hill Avenue
    Salmon, James V. (James Victor)
    1953
    Constable Jim Baine, the communications operator at the milton detachement of the ontario Provincial Police, responds to a call on the newly installed(...)
    Constable Jim Baine, the communications operator at the milton detachement of the ontario Provincial Police, responds to a call on the newly installed(...)
    Dinsmore, Ted
    12/14/1976
    Making links: Constable Bission Ramdewar hopes improved communications with ethnic minorities will enable him to prepare police for touchy situations
    Making links: Constable Bission Ramdewar hopes improved communications with ethnic minorities will enable him to prepare police for touchy situations
    Dexter, Brian
    7/5/1988