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This is the current scene at CN front street Freight yard during strike
This is the current scene at CN front street Freight yard during strike

This is the current scene at CN front street Freight yard during strike

Date4/22/1966
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Original Toronto Star caption: This is the current scene at CN front street Freight yard during strike. The problem is getting goods to and railroads. Trains are running normally.
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Copyright HolderToronto Star (Firm)
Object NumberTSPA_0016374F
Piled-up freight dwarfs lone man at CN Toronto depot, Businessmen are using all types of vehicles to get goods to trains
Piled-up freight dwarfs lone man at CN Toronto depot, Businessmen are using all types of vehicles to get goods to trains
Goode, Jeff
4/22/1966
Long night: Pickets at CP Rail's Agincourt yard warm themselves around a barrel fire last night as they prepare for a long strike by 48,000 CN and CP rail workers across the country
Long night: Pickets at CP Rail's Agincourt yard warm themselves around a barrel fire last night as they prepare for a long strike by 48,000 CN and CP rail workers across the country
Dunlop, Al
8/23/1987
Idled by Strike of trawlermen, fish processing plant workers sipped beer last August on a hillside overlooking a dozen tied-up trawlers at Morring Cove, Nfld. They're idled again in the current strike.
Idled by Strike of trawlermen, fish processing plant workers sipped beer last August on a hillside overlooking a dozen tied-up trawlers at Morring Cove, Nfld. They're idled again in the current strike.
Newfoundland Fishermen, Food and Allied Workers
8/25/1974
Stored MAIL is moved in the yard of the post office Terminal A and city delivery building yesterday during the 36-hour truce in the mail strike, now i(...)
Stored MAIL is moved in the yard of the post office Terminal A and city delivery building yesterday during the 36-hour truce in the mail strike, now i(...)
Spremo, Boris
2/27/1975
Picketer Beats the City's Heat, CN Rail striker on Front St
Picketer Beats the City's Heat, CN Rail striker on Front St
Bull, Ron
8/27/1973
On Picket Duty, TTC Operator George Shaw reads about the strike while sitting on the front of an idled street car
On Picket Duty, TTC Operator George Shaw reads about the strike while sitting on the front of an idled street car
Barkley, Harold
1/5/1952
Metro police drag strikers from path of a 9-car Canadian National freight train trying to deliver supplies to strikebound Pilkington Glass Ltd. plant (...)
Metro police drag strikers from path of a 9-car Canadian National freight train trying to deliver supplies to strikebound Pilkington Glass Ltd. plant (...)
Goode, Jeff
6/15/1972
Last Train. The last train before the strike leaves Toronto yards at 9.15 a.m. for Niagara
Last Train. The last train before the strike leaves Toronto yards at 9.15 a.m. for Niagara
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
8/26/1966
Voting on whether to end the 23-day transit strike, George Key casts a ballot in Toronto Transit Commission Russell yards at Queen St. near Coxwell Av(...)
Voting on whether to end the 23-day transit strike, George Key casts a ballot in Toronto Transit Commission Russell yards at Queen St. near Coxwell Av(...)
Combs, Erin
9/3/1974
Toronto rail yards west of Union Station lie quiet and deserted after 118,000 railwaymen across Canada went on strike to await settlement of contract dispute
Toronto rail yards west of Union Station lie quiet and deserted after 118,000 railwaymen across Canada went on strike to await settlement of contract dispute
Spremo, Boris
8/26/1966
Last shift. Striking railway workers walk off their jobs at the CPR John St. yards on their way to the picket line as the strike spread rapidly across(...)
Last shift. Striking railway workers walk off their jobs at the CPR John St. yards on their way to the picket line as the strike spread rapidly across(...)
Darrell, Dick
8/1/1966
A way out?: New proposals on teachers' roles may help end strike scenes like this
A way out?: New proposals on teachers' roles may help end strike scenes like this
Lennon, Frank
9/22/1987