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Strong message: Residents of Pickering and Markham join their mayors yesterday at the Mark-ham-Pickering Town Line, south of Highway 7, to launch a campaign to fight proposed dump sites
Strong message: Residents of Pickering and Markham join their mayors yesterday at the Mark-ham-Pickering Town Line, south of Highway 7, to launch a campaign to fight proposed dump sites

Strong message: Residents of Pickering and Markham join their mayors yesterday at the Mark-ham-Pickering Town Line, south of Highway 7, to launch a campaign to fight proposed dump sites

Date12/11/1992
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Original Toronto Star caption: Strong message: Residents of Pickering and Markham join their mayors yesterday at the Mark-ham-Pickering Town Line; south of Highway 7; to launch a campaign to fight proposed dump sites.
Subject
    GeographyCity, town, townshipMarkham||Pickering
    GeographyRegion or DistrictDurham (Ont. : Regional municipality)
    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_0011490F
      East Caledon dairy farmer Jim Early, 65, has learned the land his family started working in 1914 is one of 57 proposed sites for a dump and may take g(...)
      East Caledon dairy farmer Jim Early, 65, has learned the land his family started working in 1914 is one of 57 proposed sites for a dump and may take g(...)
      Toronto Star (Firm)
      6/4/1992
      Dump site blast: Windows were blown out of a wooden building at the Brock West landfill site in Pickering yesterday after an explosion blamed on a build-up of methane gas
      Dump site blast: Windows were blown out of a wooden building at the Brock West landfill site in Pickering yesterday after an explosion blamed on a build-up of methane gas
      Dunlop, Al
      2/15/1988
      Anti-airport demonstrations, like this one by the Pickering-based People or Planes group, are causing designers to consider lakes and oceans as sites (...)
      Anti-airport demonstrations, like this one by the Pickering-based People or Planes group, are causing designers to consider lakes and oceans as sites (...)
      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      7/4/1972
      Hot issue: Environment Minister Ruth Grier was accused of going back on her word yesterday, while Erv McIntyre, head of a provincial waster agency, says it plans to inspect 57 possible dump sites
      Hot issue: Environment Minister Ruth Grier was accused of going back on her word yesterday, while Erv McIntyre, head of a provincial waster agency, says it plans to inspect 57 possible dump sites
      Bull, Ron
      6/4/1992
      Mayor's on the job in bed. Confined to Ajax-Pickering Mayor George Ashe of Pickering with nurse Patricia Meek kept up with with telephone calls to cou(...)
      Mayor's on the job in bed. Confined to Ajax-Pickering Mayor George Ashe of Pickering with nurse Patricia Meek kept up with with telephone calls to cou(...)
      Ashe, George, 1931-2014
      10/20/1975
      Worried resident: Carol DeGeer, who lives on the proposed dump site north of Metro zoo, stands near the home she may lose if Metro Toronto approves location
      Worried resident: Carol DeGeer, who lives on the proposed dump site north of Metro zoo, stands near the home she may lose if Metro Toronto approves location
      Russell, Jim
      11/28/1989
      Friend of Spadina: Allan Schwam, 54, a lifelong resident of the Kensington area and a veteran of the 1970s campaign to stop the Spadina expressway, stands on the site of a new battle - the proposed $50 million Spadina rail line
      Friend of Spadina: Allan Schwam, 54, a lifelong resident of the Kensington area and a veteran of the 1970s campaign to stop the Spadina expressway, stands on the site of a new battle - the proposed $50 million Spadina rail line
      Mahler, John
      10/31/1986
      Padlocked gates blocked some roads on the site of the proposed airport at Pickering yesterday, protected by security guards working for the federal go(...)
      Padlocked gates blocked some roads on the site of the proposed airport at Pickering yesterday, protected by security guards working for the federal go(...)
      Bezant, Graham
      9/24/1975
      On the move from land expropriated for the proposed Pickering airport, a three-bedroom house was transported up Brock Rd. yesterday toward new site on(...)
      On the move from land expropriated for the proposed Pickering airport, a three-bedroom house was transported up Brock Rd. yesterday toward new site on(...)
      Beaty, Keith
      8/14/1975
      Paying Respects: About 100 people join a memorial yesterday at the site of the Rupert Hotel, where arson killed 10 residents in 1989
      Paying Respects: About 100 people join a memorial yesterday at the site of the Rupert Hotel, where arson killed 10 residents in 1989
      Lautens, Richard
      12/23/1991
      Two sides: Chairman Eldred King, left, says York Region will not continue taking Metro refuse, but Erv Mcintyre, head of a provincial waste agency, said it plans to inspect 57 possible dump sites
      Two sides: Chairman Eldred King, left, says York Region will not continue taking Metro refuse, but Erv Mcintyre, head of a provincial waste agency, said it plans to inspect 57 possible dump sites
      Cooper, David
      3/8/1982
      Alan Tonks: Metro chairman says emergency dump sites may be unnecessary
      Alan Tonks: Metro chairman says emergency dump sites may be unnecessary
      Loek, Dick
      11/14/1988