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Herb Pirk, Parks Commissioner
Herb Pirk, Parks Commissioner

Herb Pirk, Parks Commissioner

Date12/10/1993
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ProvenanceCourtesy: Toronto Star Photograph Archives
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Where's the park? Toronto parks commissioner Herb Pirk warns that Temperance St
Where's the park? Toronto parks commissioner Herb Pirk warns that Temperance St
5/5/1988
Bundles of support: Gordon Hutchinson (left), deputy commissioner of parks and recreation for North York, holds bundles of signatures from borough residents while Michael Nagy, chairman of the North York Olympic Committee, holds one of the bundles open to show some of signatures on a letter
Bundles of support: Gordon Hutchinson (left), deputy commissioner of parks and recreation for North York, holds bundles of signatures from borough residents while Michael Nagy, chairman of the North York Olympic Committee, holds one of the bundles open to show some of signatures on a letter
7/7/1976
Toppled Gravestones are studied by North York Parks Commissioner Douglas Snow yesterday in the cemetery beside Zion Primitive Methodist Church
Toppled Gravestones are studied by North York Parks Commissioner Douglas Snow yesterday in the cemetery beside Zion Primitive Methodist Church
3/30/1977
Form of medicine: Win Tam and Dieu Khon Quang weigh Chinese herbs used to treat common ailments James Gin, owner of Nam Pek Hong Chinese Herbs Centre, stocks more than 1,000 speciality herbs
Form of medicine: Win Tam and Dieu Khon Quang weigh Chinese herbs used to treat common ailments James Gin, owner of Nam Pek Hong Chinese Herbs Centre, stocks more than 1,000 speciality herbs
1/16/1981
Seymour Gold consults toddlers in a sandbox at Bellwoods Park yesterday and concludes Toronto parks are magnificent.
Seymour Gold consults toddlers in a sandbox at Bellwoods Park yesterday and concludes Toronto parks are magnificent.
8/15/1977
Jack Jones, chief engineer for the Harbor Commission, wants to turn the city's central waterfront into a people place by creating more parks and beaches with landfill dumped into the city's harbor
Jack Jones, chief engineer for the Harbor Commission, wants to turn the city's central waterfront into a people place by creating more parks and beaches with landfill dumped into the city's harbor
5/19/1972
Exposed kids: Father Roger Beals says his two kids, Travis and Cameron, were soaked with poisonous insecticides when a Toronto parks worker, wearing a gas mask, began spraying trees around the Kew Gardens area.
Exposed kids: Father Roger Beals says his two kids, Travis and Cameron, were soaked with poisonous insecticides when a Toronto parks worker, wearing a gas mask, began spraying trees around the Kew Gardens area.
7/16/1985
Feeling good: Clive Fell, at the piano, and Linda Shanley, left, who were reduced to living in Metro Toronto parks after Shanley was evicted from government housing, are settling in nicely at the Mount Forest, Ont., lodge at which they were offered an apa
Feeling good: Clive Fell, at the piano, and Linda Shanley, left, who were reduced to living in Metro Toronto parks after Shanley was evicted from government housing, are settling in nicely at the Mount Forest, Ont., lodge at which they were offered an apa
9/19/1985
G. Ross Lord strolls through one of the conservation area parks near his home
G. Ross Lord strolls through one of the conservation area parks near his home
2/13/1979
Ontario Bus industries presented its first production unit of a propane-powered tour to the Niagara Parks Commission yesterday
Ontario Bus industries presented its first production unit of a propane-powered tour to the Niagara Parks Commission yesterday
4/12/1985
Peter Poot left and Dennis Manning, Director of parks for Scarboro
Peter Poot left and Dennis Manning, Director of parks for Scarboro
6/3/1975
Charlie Ericksen. We should be raging 500 cheer attacks on logging in parks
Charlie Ericksen. We should be raging 500 cheer attacks on logging in parks
11/3/1970