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Does Ontario need road blocks too?, On the march for Farmer Dad, She's marching to help her daddy and 1,300 other farmers carry their beefs about farm(...)
Does Ontario need road blocks too?, On the march for Farmer Dad, She's marching to help her daddy and 1,300 other farmers carry their beefs about farm(...)

Does Ontario need road blocks too?, On the march for Farmer Dad, She's marching to help her daddy and 1,300 other farmers carry their beefs about farm(...)

Date4/5/1966
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Original Toronto Star caption: Does Ontario need road blocks too?; On the march for Farmer Dad; She's marching to help her daddy and 1;300 other farmers carry their beefs about farm prices to the provincial government at Queen's Park yesterday.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0011602F
Country:Canada
City, town or township:Toronto
Province or state:Ontario
Showing their displeasure, some 1,300 members of the Ontario Farmers' Union mass in Queen's Park to plead their cause for higher prices. [Incomplete]
Showing their displeasure, some 1,300 members of the Ontario Farmers' Union mass in Queen's Park to plead their cause for higher prices. [Incomplete]
4/5/1966
PM tightwalks. Low bidders: About 500 farmers took over a farm-liquidation auction near Palmerston. They conducted the auction themselves and bought about $100,000 worth of equipment for $19.81
PM tightwalks. Low bidders: About 500 farmers took over a farm-liquidation auction near Palmerston. They conducted the auction themselves and bought about $100,000 worth of equipment for $19.81
2/9/1983
Fifteen tractors manned by angry farmers block entrance at Caledon landfill site to trucks carrying contaminated soil from Mississauga derailment site yesterday
Fifteen tractors manned by angry farmers block entrance at Caledon landfill site to trucks carrying contaminated soil from Mississauga derailment site yesterday
11/27/1979
Two-way parade of Farmers' Tractors on Highway 10, What they want is $4 a hundredweight for manufactured milk
Two-way parade of Farmers' Tractors on Highway 10, What they want is $4 a hundredweight for manufactured milk
6/24/1966
Mood of the Angry Farmers is expressed by this Banner carried by Demonstrators outside Queen's park yesterday, Irked by the prices paid for their prod(...)
Mood of the Angry Farmers is expressed by this Banner carried by Demonstrators outside Queen's park yesterday, Irked by the prices paid for their prod(...)
4/6/1966
The farmers jammed against Queen's Park steps after Eddie Sargent (L, Grey North) won an argument with police
The farmers jammed against Queen's Park steps after Eddie Sargent (L, Grey North) won an argument with police
4/5/1966
Queen's park takes on a rural look as farmers chat after their tractor cavalcade ended at legislatures door, An angry group swarmed into the building (...)
Queen's park takes on a rural look as farmers chat after their tractor cavalcade ended at legislatures door, An angry group swarmed into the building (...)
7/27/1966
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
March to protest bombing, Helen Burpe carries a Stop Bombing Cambodia sign outside the United States consulate yesterday with other members of the Toronto Association for Peace
March to protest bombing, Helen Burpe carries a Stop Bombing Cambodia sign outside the United States consulate yesterday with other members of the Toronto Association for Peace
6/11/1973
Paper trail: Farmer Don Whitcombe indicates his opinion about the use of paper sludge as fertilizer at a protest outside Atlantic Packaging in Whitby
Paper trail: Farmer Don Whitcombe indicates his opinion about the use of paper sludge as fertilizer at a protest outside Atlantic Packaging in Whitby
1/20/1999
Long-time service: Nursing aides from Sick Kids march outside the hospital yesterday, with help from others, to protest planned layoffs
Long-time service: Nursing aides from Sick Kids march outside the hospital yesterday, with help from others, to protest planned layoffs
3/21/1993
Milton Farmer Lorne Ella said: I hope the government and the general public pays as much attention to these union protesters as my cows do to me
Milton Farmer Lorne Ella said: I hope the government and the general public pays as much attention to these union protesters as my cows do to me
10/13/1976