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Agitated workers face the factory owner in The Strike, painted by Robert Koehler in 1886. The following is a list of specific strikes (workers refusing to work, seeking to change their conditions in a particular industry or an individual workplace, or striking in solidarity with those in another particular workplace) and general strikes (widespread refusal of workers to work in an organized ...
The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was one of the most famous and influential strikes in Canadian history. [1] For six weeks, May 15 to June 26, more than 30,000 strikers brought economic activity to a standstill in Winnipeg, Manitoba, which at the time was Canada's third largest city. In the short term, the strike ended in arrests, bloodshed ...
When the State Trembled: How A.J. Andrews and the Citizens' Committee Broke the Winnipeg General Strike. University of Toronto Press. Masters, Donald C. 1973. The Winnipeg General Strike. University of Toronto Press. McKay, Ian. 2008. Reasoning Otherwise: Leftists and the People's Enlightenment in Canada,1890-1920. Between the Lines. Robin ...
July. 2021 French airport strikes; [30] [31] 2021 Frito-Lay strike, dispute between workers represented by the Bakery, Confectionery, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers' International Union and Frito-Lay in Kansas, United States; Hartal Doktor Kontrak, protest by doctors against the Malaysian government's contract system in appointing medical ...
Early life and career. Gary Doer was born to a middle class family in Winnipeg, Manitoba.His background is German and Welsh.He graduated from St. Paul's High School and went on to study political science and sociology at the University of Manitoba for one year where he was a member of Tau Kappa Epsilon fraternity, but left to become a corrections officer at the Vaughan Street Detention Centre.
Website. umanitoba.ca. The University of Manitoba ( U of M, UManitoba, or UM) is a public research university in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. Founded in 1877, it is the first university of Western Canada. Both by total student enrolment and campus area, the University of Manitoba is the largest university in the province of Manitoba.
Winnipeg Transit. Winnipeg Transit is the public transit agency, and the bus -service provider, of the City of Winnipeg, Manitoba. Established 141 years ago, it is owned by the city government and currently employs nearly 1,600 people—including approximately 1,100 bus drivers.
Early history Petroforms at Whiteshell Provincial Park.The site is hypothesized to be a First Nations gathering place or trading centre.. The geographical area of modern-day Manitoba was inhabited by the First Nations people shortly after the last ice age glaciers retreated in the south-west approximately 10,000 years ago; the first exposed land was the Turtle Mountain area.