June Marks
(Florence) June (Pacey) Marks (1923–2008) was a Toronto community activist and politician.
She first ran for city council in 1962 in Ward 2 but was defeated. She was elected on her second attempt in 1964 and, in 1966, won city-wide election to the Toronto Board of Control and also served on Metro Toronto Council. When the Board of Control was abolished for the 1969 election she ran and won in Ward 6. She was defeated in the 1972 municipal election. She ran federally for the Progressive Conservatives in Spadina in the 1974 federal election but was defeated.
Marks was an advocate for improved housing in the downtown core and initiated a judicial probe into slum conditions in Toronto that resulted in more rigorous housing inspections.
Family
Marks had four children with ex-husband Nick Marks.
One of her sons, Doug Marks, was born approximately in 1952.
Her eldest child and only daughter, Linda, died 15 August 1975 at the age of twenty-nine. She was one of the very first women to have been diagnosed with Lupus. Linda left behind her husband, Peter Burton, and three young daughters, Laura Catherine Marks, Jennifer Burton and Rebecca Burton.