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Mailbox was overturned in a scuffle between police and evicted campers yesterday morning in front of the Central Library, where one constable used his(...)
Mailbox was overturned in a scuffle between police and evicted campers yesterday morning in front of the Central Library, where one constable used his(...)

Mailbox was overturned in a scuffle between police and evicted campers yesterday morning in front of the Central Library, where one constable used his(...)

Date7/18/1971
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  • Mailbox was overturned in a scuffle between police and evicted campers yesterday morning in front of the Central Library; where one constable used his fists on a youth. As the young travellers walked from the university to the headquarters of Grass Roots; the coalition of social agencies that set up the tent city; police followed closely on motorcycles. There were several scuffles and 20 arrests.
  • Mailbox was overturned in a scuffle between police and evicted campers yesterday morning in front of the Central Library, where one constable used his(...)
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Original Toronto Star caption: Mailbox was overturned in a scuffle between police and evicted campers yesterday morning in front of the Central Library; where one constable used his fists on a youth. As the young travellers walked from the university to the headquarters of Grass Roots; the coalition of social agencies that set up the tent city; police followed closely on motorcycles. There were several scuffles and 20 arrests.
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0019739F
Trying to cross the University of Toronto campus after being evicted from their week-old tent city, young campers are blocked by police. A moment late(...)
Trying to cross the University of Toronto campus after being evicted from their week-old tent city, young campers are blocked by police. A moment late(...)
Spremo, Boris
7/19/1971
Young people who were evicted yesterday from tents on the University of Toronto campus listen to Ontario Liberal Robert Nixon at Queen's Park where th(...)
Young people who were evicted yesterday from tents on the University of Toronto campus listen to Ontario Liberal Robert Nixon at Queen's Park where th(...)
Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
7/19/1971
Moving a juke-box at the Teen Hub, North York Central Library
Moving a juke-box at the Teen Hub, North York Central Library
North York Public Library
1987
Black and white photograph of a large, five story, brick commercial building.
Central Y.M.C.A., College St.
Young Men's Christian Association (Toronto, Ont.)
1912
Black and white photograph of a large building in the Richardsonian Romanesque style of archite…
British American Business College Central Y. M. C. A. bldg., Toronto, Canada
Young Men's Christian Association (Toronto, Ont.)
Approximately 1906
Colorized photograph of a large building constructed in the Richardsonian Romanesque style of a…
Central Y. M. C. A., Toronto, Canada
Young Women's Christian Association
Approximately 1910
Black and white photograph of a large building in the Richardsonian Romanesque style of archite…
Central Y. M. C. A., Yonge Street, Canada
Toronto News Company
Approximately 1906
1971. Wacheea - the Cree Indian name that means the place where everyone is welcome - is the tent city operated for travelling youth on the campus of (...)
1971. Wacheea - the Cree Indian name that means the place where everyone is welcome - is the tent city operated for travelling youth on the campus of (...)
Bull, Ron
7/13/1971
Their tent city shut down by police, young travellers walk south on Huron St
Their tent city shut down by police, young travellers walk south on Huron St
Spremo, Boris
7/18/1971
The boys take pride in the home and ride herd on one another to keep everyone in line, says John Martin, centre, senior staff member at a group home o(...)
The boys take pride in the home and ride herd on one another to keep everyone in line, says John Martin, centre, senior staff member at a group home o(...)
Olsen, Bob, 1931-2022
11/9/1975
The CYC is nothing more than a set of criteria and a budget, says Bill Fisher, left, one of two CYC field workers in Metro. He and Wolfe Erlichmann oversee grants to community groups
The CYC is nothing more than a set of criteria and a budget, says Bill Fisher, left, one of two CYC field workers in Metro. He and Wolfe Erlichmann oversee grants to community groups
Innell, Reg, 1926-2018
8/24/1975
Earning and learning: Rob Collum, 17, is learning the auto body trade at Centre for Advancement in Work and Living, one of hundreds of unemployed youths on their way to a job
Earning and learning: Rob Collum, 17, is learning the auto body trade at Centre for Advancement in Work and Living, one of hundreds of unemployed youths on their way to a job
Mahler, John
1/3/1986