Skip to main content
Digital Archive Toronto Public Library Homepage
Solid sense. That's what rings through as Ontario's John Robarts, looking like a trust company president, delivers badly a well-written speech, but gi(...)
Solid sense. That's what rings through as Ontario's John Robarts, looking like a trust company president, delivers badly a well-written speech, but gi(...)

Solid sense. That's what rings through as Ontario's John Robarts, looking like a trust company president, delivers badly a well-written speech, but gi(...)

Date11/27/1967
Names
(photographer)
FormatPicture
Notes
Original Toronto Star caption: Solid sense. That's what rings through as Ontario's John Robarts; looking like a trust company president; delivers badly a well-written speech; but gives Canada's other premiers plenty to think about at the Confederation of Tomorrow Conference in an Orwellian eyrie.
GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
Medium
Photographs
Language
ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
Usage Rights Copyright (Learn More)
Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0004930F
A view like no other of the Toronto skyline is what the CN Tower promises - and that's what it delivers
A view like no other of the Toronto skyline is what the CN Tower promises - and that's what it delivers
6/24/1986
What! no walls? Ontario's Minister of Economics and Development Stanley Randall shows Premier John Robarts the architect's model of Ontario's wall-les(...)
What! no walls? Ontario's Minister of Economics and Development Stanley Randall shows Premier John Robarts the architect's model of Ontario's wall-les(...)
2/25/1965
Tied up in knots? That's no problem if the rescuer is Atlas, known to his fans as the Canadian canine actor who can out-Lassie Lassie and run rings ar(...)
Tied up in knots? That's no problem if the rescuer is Atlas, known to his fans as the Canadian canine actor who can out-Lassie Lassie and run rings ar(...)
12/17/1975
Thomas Wells, Ontario's new Health Minister relaxes with his family at Queen's Park shortly after Premier John Robarts announced his appointement. He'(...)
Thomas Wells, Ontario's new Health Minister relaxes with his family at Queen's Park shortly after Premier John Robarts announced his appointement. He'(...)
8/13/1969
Spoken to nuns, Pope John Paul II delivers a speech in the Mother House of the COngregation of Notre Dame in Montreal, and then mingled with a group of nuns, some of them in wheelchairs
Spoken to nuns, Pope John Paul II delivers a speech in the Mother House of the COngregation of Notre Dame in Montreal, and then mingled with a group of nuns, some of them in wheelchairs
9/11/1984
Now is the Time . .' Ontario's Premier John Robarts (left) is seen looking at the time with Prime Minister Diefenbaker at the Ontario Progressive Cons(...)
Now is the Time . .' Ontario's Premier John Robarts (left) is seen looking at the time with Prime Minister Diefenbaker at the Ontario Progressive Cons(...)
2/19/1963
Tom Wells, Ontario's new Minister of Health, relaxes with his son, Andrew, wife and daughter Brenda, shortly after Premier Robarts announced his appointment to the cabinet yesterday
Tom Wells, Ontario's new Minister of Health, relaxes with his son, Andrew, wife and daughter Brenda, shortly after Premier Robarts announced his appointment to the cabinet yesterday
8/14/1969
Lesage and Robarts: Two premiers, Ontario's John Robarts, right, and Quebec's Jean Lesage, get together at a University of Toronto ceremony in 1962
Lesage and Robarts: Two premiers, Ontario's John Robarts, right, and Quebec's Jean Lesage, get together at a University of Toronto ceremony in 1962
n.d.
The agony of defeat: Quebec Premier Rene Levesque, his wife Corinne at his side, delivers a tearful speech to a crowd of 6,000 suppoters at Montreal's Paul Sauve arena
The agony of defeat: Quebec Premier Rene Levesque, his wife Corinne at his side, delivers a tearful speech to a crowd of 6,000 suppoters at Montreal's Paul Sauve arena
5/20/1980
Ontario's New Chief Justices, Premier John Robarts (left) congratulates two new chief justices of Ontario, Chief Justice George Gale, 61, chief justic(...)
Ontario's New Chief Justices, Premier John Robarts (left) congratulates two new chief justices of Ontario, Chief Justice George Gale, 61, chief justic(...)
10/18/1967
Giving Ontario's views, Premier John Robarts addresses the federal-provincial constitutional coference today
Giving Ontario's views, Premier John Robarts addresses the federal-provincial constitutional coference today
2/11/1969
A moment of Hilarity is shared by Ontario's Premier John Robarts, Mrs
A moment of Hilarity is shared by Ontario's Premier John Robarts, Mrs
6/13/1969