Thursday, 22 March 2012

CANADA: '' WE WERE THE SALT OF THE EARTH'' - THE REGINA RIOTS AND WORKERS STRUGGLES, STRIKES AND RIOTS DURING THE GREAT DEPRESSION.


"We were the salt of the earth. - CM Archive

umanitoba.ca/cm/cmarchive/vol14no2/revwewerethesalt.html
A NARRATIVE OF THE ON-TO-OTTAWA TREK AND THE REGINA RIOT. Howard, Victor. Regina, Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, ...


Insurgent 30′s: On-To-Ottawa Trek, Regina Riot, & Spanish Civil ...

momentofinsurrection.wordpress.com/insurgent-30s-on-to-ottawa-tre...
Barricades in Regina Riot. Canadian Parisans in Spanish Civil War (Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion). {this is a paper i wrote to go with a play that we did on the ...

Regina Riot victim remembered with headstone - Saskatchewan ...www.cbc.ca/news/canada/.../sk-regina-riot-victim-remembered.htm3 Jul 2011 – A man who was killed during the 1935 Regina Riot has been remembered at a city cemetery.

Great Depression in Canada - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression_in_Canada
Canada was hit hard by the Great Depression. ... Farmers who stayed on their farms were not considered unemployed. .... New Deal legislation shifted the struggle to reconstitute capitalism to the provincial and municipal levels of the state.

Bloody Sunday (1938) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopediaen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Sunday_(1938)Protesters throwing rocks after eviction of sitdowners from the post office. ... Bloody Sunday was the conclusion of a month-long "sitdowners' strike" by ... It wasdepression-era Vancouver's final violent clash between Communist-led ... which had led the 1935 strike that culminated in the On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot.

Political Protest - The Canadian Encyclopedia

www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com › ... › Politics, General
Political protest is the kind of political activity, eg, demonstrations, strikes and even ...to the attention of the Canadian state, culminating in farmers' protest parties which ...The GREAT DEPRESSION of the 1930s, with the consequent misery of ... such as the ON TO OTTAWA TREK of 1935 (which resulted in a bloody riot in ...


  1. Parks Canada - Laurier House National Historic Site - IV: Visual ...

    www.pc.gc.ca › ... › Learning Experiences › Social Programs
    18 Jun 2009 – Rioters atop railroad cars, others climbing, police and others below. ...During the Depression, strikes and mass protests were all too ... over $100 million onfarm and unemployment relief, and despite acts of ... He was regarded as out of touch and indifferent to the distress of ordinary, struggling Canadians.

  2. Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | PROTEST AND DISSENT

    jetson.unl.edu/cocoon/encyclopedia/doc/egp.pd.001
    Dramatic episodes like the 1919 Winnipeg (Manitoba) General Strike and the 1973 ...There were numerous parallels between the Canadian and American farm ... The GreatDepression of the 1930s presented an enormous challenge to .... in the fray in Winnipeg, and the strikers were routed after three weeks of struggle.

  3. 1. Strikes and Labour Disputes 1918-1920 - Canadian History Portal ...

    canadachannel.ca/HCO/.../1._Strikes_and_Labour_Disputes_1918-19...
    The Great Depression and the Dirty Thirties → ... Canada was now home to over half a million veterans of war, many of whom were ... appeared in the patients, "it is simply astruggle for air until they suffocate. ... Alberta Farmers Wearing Masks ... allowedstrikes in the Trade Union Act in 1872, such forms of protest were not ...


    1. The Beeching Collection

      www.focusonsocialism.ca/random.asp?ID=275
      When the depression hit, farmers were further devastated by the loss of markets for ...and formulating class struggle policies and fighting for a Socialist Canada. ... The RCMP put down the strike, killing three miners and wounding fifty. ... When Buck was brought to court and asked about the riot he answered “I was shot at.

    2. ALBERTA DEPRESSION YEARS 1933 - 1937

      www.telusplanet.net/dgarneau/alberta16.htm
      Seven jobless men went to jail in Edmonton for taking part in a hunger strike. ... (IV)-Marion Salzl (1910-2009) is chief floor lady at Canadian Bedding, making ... forty thousand families and a half million head of livestock struggled for survival. ... Before the end of the depression a half million farmers would leave the most .


      1. Regina Riot

        scaa.usask.ca/gallery/regina/central/riot.html
        The Great Depression began in 1929 and did not end until World War II started in 1939. It was a decade of misery all across the world, but Saskatchewan was hit ..

      2. On-to-Ottawa Trek - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On-to-Ottawa_Trek
        The Great Depression crippled the Canadian economy and left one in nine citizens on... 1 Meeting in Ottawa; 2 Regina Riot; 3 Effects; 4 See also; 5 References ...

      3. History of Regina, Saskatchewan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

        en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Regina,_Saskatchewan
        Jump to The Depression, the CCF and the Regina Riot‎: Three large vans were parked on the sides of the square concealing RCMP riot squads. Regina ...



        1. ll Hell Can't Stop Us: The On-to-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot

          www.fitzhenry.ca/detail.aspx?ID=9388
          Thus was born the On-to-Ottawa trek, which culminated in the Regina Riot, where the protestes and RCMP clashed in one of Canada's most significant historic ...

        2. Next Year Country: The On-to-Ottawa Trek and the Regina Riot

          nextyearcountrynews.blogspot.com/.../on-to-ottawa-trek-and-regina-...
          8 May 2010 – THE ON-TO-OTTAWA TREK and the Regina Riot symbolize the extreme ruthlessness of the Canadian state's response to the unemployment ...

        3. Interwar Years: the Regina Riot | Benchmarks

          historicalthinking.ca/lesson/447
          Who was to blame for starting the Regina Riot of July 1, 1935? In this lesson students will interpret primary and secondary sources about the Regina Riot to 


          1. The Regina Riot - YouTube

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            www.youtube.com/watch?v=qKnx64DZQlw24 May 2010 - 2 min - Uploaded by benjames74
            This is the trailer to my documentary, "The Regina Riot. ... these with a million people.... but in Canada we are not ...












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