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Signs of frustration: Metro motorists drive on the shoulders of the highways as protesting truck drivers slowed traffic yesterday, the second day in a row truckers used their rigs to tie up roads
Signs of frustration: Metro motorists drive on the shoulders of the highways as protesting truck drivers slowed traffic yesterday, the second day in a row truckers used their rigs to tie up roads

Signs of frustration: Metro motorists drive on the shoulders of the highways as protesting truck drivers slowed traffic yesterday, the second day in a row truckers used their rigs to tie up roads

Date5/16/1991
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Original Toronto Star caption: Signs of frustration: Metro motorists drive on the shoulders of the highways as protesting truck drivers slowed traffic yesterday; the second day in a row truckers used their rigs to tie up roads.
GeographyCity, town, townshipToronto
GeographyProvince stateOntario
GeographyCountryCanada
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ProvenanceFrom the Toronto Star Archives
CollectionToronto Star Photograph Archive
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Call Number / Accession NumberTSPA_0011479F
Hell highway: Truckers protesting high taxes join in a mass to plug up Highway 401 near Ajax yesterday, adding hours to the trip home for commuters
Hell highway: Truckers protesting high taxes join in a mass to plug up Highway 401 near Ajax yesterday, adding hours to the trip home for commuters
Spremo, Boris
5/16/1991
Some Trip! Public school students on an excursion walk to another bus yesterday after theirs was stuck for four hours by the truckers' protest. The students were returned to their school
Some Trip! Public school students on an excursion walk to another bus yesterday after theirs was stuck for four hours by the truckers' protest. The students were returned to their school
Calleja, Frank
5/16/1991
Too many licenses, Truckers say, Their boxes up, dump trucks surround Queen's Park today as about 150 drivers picketed to protest recent regulations t(...)
Too many licenses, Truckers say, Their boxes up, dump trucks surround Queen's Park today as about 150 drivers picketed to protest recent regulations t(...)
Spremo, Boris
1/31/1975
Truckers' group boycott Milton quarries, Truck drivers in the newly organized Ontario Haulers Association meet yesterday in a field near Milton with their president, Angelo Natale, at right
Truckers' group boycott Milton quarries, Truck drivers in the newly organized Ontario Haulers Association meet yesterday in a field near Milton with their president, Angelo Natale, at right
Dutton, Don
2/27/1974
Taking advantage: Two sunbathers make the best of a no-way-out situation yesterday on Highway 401 as truckers refuse to budge
Taking advantage: Two sunbathers make the best of a no-way-out situation yesterday on Highway 401 as truckers refuse to budge
Brazao, Dale
5/15/1991
Junior Protesters Want Cars To Slow Down, Waving signs and yelling at motorists to slow down, a group of 15 girls stood for more than an hour on the s(...)
Junior Protesters Want Cars To Slow Down, Waving signs and yelling at motorists to slow down, a group of 15 girls stood for more than an hour on the s(...)
Beaty, Keith
9/7/1973
Getting the message, Greenpeace signs against car pollutions greet motorists heading downtown on the Gardiner Expressway today. The environment group (...)
Getting the message, Greenpeace signs against car pollutions greet motorists heading downtown on the Gardiner Expressway today. The environment group (...)
Stawicki, Andrew
6/10/1991
Pickets protest Romanian salt, Protesting the purchase of Romanian salt for North York roads this winter, pickets (left to right) Arthur Jackson, Alex(...)
Pickets protest Romanian salt, Protesting the purchase of Romanian salt for North York roads this winter, pickets (left to right) Arthur Jackson, Alex(...)
Spremo, Boris
10/2/1972
Carrying a placard and 4-year-old Lowell Greenspoon, David Shiner was among about 100 demonstrators moved on by police after they slowed traffic yeste(...)
Carrying a placard and 4-year-old Lowell Greenspoon, David Shiner was among about 100 demonstrators moved on by police after they slowed traffic yeste(...)
Spremo, Boris
9/14/1972
Sign of frustration
Sign of frustration
Henton, Darcy
8/1/1988
Signs of frustration: Parents and their children picket the York Region District School Board's offices in the snow yesterday, demanding the lockout of 3,214 public elementary teachers be lifted
Signs of frustration: Parents and their children picket the York Region District School Board's offices in the snow yesterday, demanding the lockout of 3,214 public elementary teachers be lifted
Mahler, John
11/16/1998
Protesting the expropriation of farmland to make way for the proposed Pickering airport, People OrPlanes members Margaret Godfrey (right) and Rhoda Al(...)
Protesting the expropriation of farmland to make way for the proposed Pickering airport, People OrPlanes members Margaret Godfrey (right) and Rhoda Al(...)
Lennon, Frank
9/23/1975