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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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  • 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
  • Teachers with signs mass outside Queen's Park in their one-day demonstration against Education Minister Thomas Wells' bill to retroactively prohibit r(...)
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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(...)
      Beaty, Keith
      12/11/1973
      Calling on Education Minister Thomas Wells to end the strike by Metro's 8,800 secondary school teachers, 100 Etobicoke high school students mass at Qu(...)
      Calling on Education Minister Thomas Wells to end the strike by Metro's 8,800 secondary school teachers, 100 Etobicoke high school students mass at Qu(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      11/20/1975
      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 (...)
      Lennon, Frank
      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 (...)
      Goode, Jeff
      12/18/1973
      Protesting the call for binding arbitration by Education Minister Thomas Wells, 1,600 York Region teachers, parents and students march through Aurora (...)
      Protesting the call for binding arbitration by Education Minister Thomas Wells, 1,600 York Region teachers, parents and students march through Aurora (...)
      Goode, Jeff
      3/11/1974
      After talks about legislating 8,800 striking teachers back to work, Education Minister Thomas Wells and Premier William Davis leave a downtown hotel t(...)
      After talks about legislating 8,800 striking teachers back to work, Education Minister Thomas Wells and Premier William Davis leave a downtown hotel t(...)
      Bull, Ron
      1/9/1976
      Protesting the call for binding arbitration by Education Minister Thomas Wells, 1,600 York Region teachers, parents and students march through Aurora (...)
      Protesting the call for binding arbitration by Education Minister Thomas Wells, 1,600 York Region teachers, parents and students march through Aurora (...)
      Goode, Jeff
      3/12/1974
      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(...)
      Bull, Ron
      3/8/1974
      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(...)
      Spremo, Boris
      12/18/1973
      Minister of education Thomas Wells says that the seven-week teacher-training course for native peoples was first-rate and well-received
      Minister of education Thomas Wells says that the seven-week teacher-training course for native peoples was first-rate and well-received
      Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
      4/20/1970
      Premier Williams Davis, his wife Kathy and Education Minister Thomas Wells were greeted by supporters outside CFTO-TV studios where last night's debat(...)
      Premier Williams Davis, his wife Kathy and Education Minister Thomas Wells were greeted by supporters outside CFTO-TV studios where last night's debat(...)
      Darrell, Dick
      5/24/1977
      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
      Goode, Jeff
      12/18/1973