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Metric System - Protests
Metric System - Protests

Metric System - Protests

Date11/22/1982
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  • Metric System - Protests
  • Metric System - Protests
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Original Toronto Star caption: Metric System - Protests
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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_0009502F
Metric protests: An anti-metric protester's sign puts a finger on the problem at old city hall yesterday when two gas station owners appeared charged with selling gasoline in gallons
Metric protests: An anti-metric protester's sign puts a finger on the problem at old city hall yesterday when two gas station owners appeared charged with selling gasoline in gallons
Bock, Tony
1/25/1985
Metric System
Metric System
Bezant, Graham
9/7/1977
The Metric System will, as its use grows, send most people to conversion tables and definition charts to relate the new measurements to our present st(...)
The Metric System will, as its use grows, send most people to conversion tables and definition charts to relate the new measurements to our present st(...)
Goode, Jeff
3/5/1975
Confused cook?: Amusing yet helpful apron sports imperial-to-metric conversion for size, volume and oven temperatures ? printed upside down for easy reading
Confused cook?: Amusing yet helpful apron sports imperial-to-metric conversion for size, volume and oven temperatures ? printed upside down for easy reading
Loek, Dick
11/19/1983
Peterborough grocer Len Welch was the first to convert to metric, but eventually we'll all have to think that way
Peterborough grocer Len Welch was the first to convert to metric, but eventually we'll all have to think that way
Mahler, John
9/14/1979
Mixed bag: Under new policy, retailers may offer merchandise in imperial measure, but must show the equivalent in metric
Mixed bag: Under new policy, retailers may offer merchandise in imperial measure, but must show the equivalent in metric
Russell, Jim
1/30/1985
Now it's gasoline by the litre, The first metric service station in Canada is the one at Jarvis and Isabella Sts
Now it's gasoline by the litre, The first metric service station in Canada is the one at Jarvis and Isabella Sts
Spremo, Boris
4/9/1975
Metric conversions
Metric conversions
Lennon, Frank
9/3/1975
Metric student: It's been nine years since Ontario students used imperial measure in studies
Metric student: It's been nine years since Ontario students used imperial measure in studies
Barkley, Harold
1/14/1974
Metric Conversions: 1 litre=.22 gallons, 10 litres=2.20 gallons, 25 litres=5.50 gallons, 50 litres=11.00 gallons, 75 litres=16.50 gallons, 1 gallon=4.(...)
Metric Conversions: 1 litre=.22 gallons, 10 litres=2.20 gallons, 25 litres=5.50 gallons, 50 litres=11.00 gallons, 75 litres=16.50 gallons, 1 gallon=4.(...)
Spremo, Boris
4/9/1975
Gallon gas devotees
Gallon gas devotees
Spremo, Boris
1/15/1983
Voyage autour du monde, pendant les années 1790, 1791, et 1792, par Étienne Marchand, précédé d'une introduction historique, auquel on a joint des rec(...)
Voyage autour du monde, pendant les années 1790, 1791, et 1792, par Étienne Marchand, précédé d'une introduction historique, auquel on a joint des rec(...)
Drake, Francis, Sir, 1540?-1596
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