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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 (...)

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 (...)

Date5/30/1973
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Original Toronto Star caption: 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 Wells. Yesterday he appointed a four-member commission to investigate school financing problems in Metro.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0012442F
Students protest ceilings on school spending, Queen's Park
Students protest ceilings on school spending, Queen's Park
5/29/1973
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(...)
1/18/1973
Student walkout protests spending ceilings, Singing students loll on the front lawn of Keiller Mackay High School in Etobicoke after they walked out t(...)
Student walkout protests spending ceilings, Singing students loll on the front lawn of Keiller Mackay High School in Etobicoke after they walked out t(...)
10/26/1973
Toronto students demonstrate at city hall against spending ceilings, Some laughing, some serious, 7,000 high school students hold a rally in City Hall(...)
Toronto students demonstrate at city hall against spending ceilings, Some laughing, some serious, 7,000 high school students hold a rally in City Hall(...)
11/13/1973
About 20,000 students in Peel Region walked out of their high school classrooms yesterday to protest the breakdown in negotiations between teachers an(...)
About 20,000 students in Peel Region walked out of their high school classrooms yesterday to protest the breakdown in negotiations between teachers an(...)
4/6/1977
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
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
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
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
A river of milk flowed at Queen's Park today as angry farmers protested against milk quotas imposed on them this year by federal marketing board. [Incomplete]
A river of milk flowed at Queen's Park today as angry farmers protested against milk quotas imposed on them this year by federal marketing board. [Incomplete]
4/27/1976
Rent bill protest: Members of the Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations march at the Legislature yesterday to express displeasure at a bill to raise ceiling on rent increases
Rent bill protest: Members of the Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations march at the Legislature yesterday to express displeasure at a bill to raise ceiling on rent increases
10/14/1986
Teachers carry placards outside Queen's Park as they protest the proposed legislation nullifying their resignations
Teachers carry placards outside Queen's Park as they protest the proposed legislation nullifying their resignations
12/18/1973