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Teachers with signs mass outside Queen's Park in their one-day demonstration against Education Minister Thomas Wells' bill to retroactively prohibit r(...)
Teachers with signs mass outside Queen's Park in their one-day demonstration against Education Minister Thomas Wells' bill to retroactively prohibit r(...)

Teachers with signs mass outside Queen's Park in their one-day demonstration against Education Minister Thomas Wells' bill to retroactively prohibit r(...)

Date1/18/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: Teachers with signs mass outside Queen's Park in their one-day demonstration against Education Minister Thomas Wells' bill to retroactively prohibit resignations. The legislation unilaterally changes the terms of teachers' contracts; one reader says in ac
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Education minister Thomas Wells talks with some of the seveal hundred teachers who virtually took over Queen's Park yesterday afternoon in a demonstra(...)
Education minister Thomas Wells talks with some of the seveal hundred teachers who virtually took over Queen's Park yesterday afternoon in a demonstra(...)
12/11/1973
Message is loud and clear as 900 parents and high school students from York Region wave signs at Education Minister Thomas Wells as they gather at Que(...)
Message is loud and clear as 900 parents and high school students from York Region wave signs at Education Minister Thomas Wells as they gather at Que(...)
3/8/1974
Metro teachers left their classrooms May 14 to march on Queen's Park in protest against the ceilings imposed on spending by Education Minister Thomas (...)
Metro teachers left their classrooms May 14 to march on Queen's Park in protest against the ceilings imposed on spending by Education Minister Thomas (...)
5/30/1973
Forest of Placards are raised today at gigantic rally of Metro teachers at Queen's Park in a mass demonstration against the Ontario government's bill (...)
Forest of Placards are raised today at gigantic rally of Metro teachers at Queen's Park in a mass demonstration against the Ontario government's bill (...)
12/18/1973
Education minister Thomas Welss tries to address 30,000 teachers at Queen's Park yesterday, despite their chants of resign, resign, resign as he spoke(...)
Education minister Thomas Welss tries to address 30,000 teachers at Queen's Park yesterday, despite their chants of resign, resign, resign as he spoke(...)
12/18/1973
Teachers mass on the lawn at Queen's Park yesterday in what police called the largest and most orderly demonstration in Ontario history
Teachers mass on the lawn at Queen's Park yesterday in what police called the largest and most orderly demonstration in Ontario history
12/18/1973
Class action: Catholic high school students carry signs as they gather at Queen's Park today to urge an end to a work-to-rule campaign by teachers volved in a contract dispute with their board
Class action: Catholic high school students carry signs as they gather at Queen's Park today to urge an end to a work-to-rule campaign by teachers volved in a contract dispute with their board
3/5/1992
Members of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association prepare signs yesterday for today's march from Maple Leaf Gardens to Queen's Park. From t(...)
Members of the Ontario English Catholic Teachers Association prepare signs yesterday for today's march from Maple Leaf Gardens to Queen's Park. From t(...)
12/17/1973
Waiting game: Ontario teachers occupy Education Minister Sean Conway's Queen's Park office last night, refusing to leave until Conway met them
Waiting game: Ontario teachers occupy Education Minister Sean Conway's Queen's Park office last night, refusing to leave until Conway met them
12/13/1989
Roaring their approval, more than 22,000 teachers jam Maple Leaf Gardens today to hear speakers denounce the Ontario government's bill banning mass re(...)
Roaring their approval, more than 22,000 teachers jam Maple Leaf Gardens today to hear speakers denounce the Ontario government's bill banning mass re(...)
12/18/1973
Signs of frustration: Parents and their children picket the York Region District School Board's offices in the snow yesterday, demanding the lockout of 3,214 public elementary teachers be lifted
Signs of frustration: Parents and their children picket the York Region District School Board's offices in the snow yesterday, demanding the lockout of 3,214 public elementary teachers be lifted
11/16/1998
Demonstrating Teachers hold signs aloft in Maple Leaf Gardens today, ready to cary them in a march across College St
Demonstrating Teachers hold signs aloft in Maple Leaf Gardens today, ready to cary them in a march across College St
12/18/1973