Search results
Results from the Health.Zone Content Network
Winnipeg general strike. 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.
The 2024 Canada railway dispute is a labour-business dispute between the Canadian National Railway Company (CN) and Canadian Pacific Kansas City (CPKC) and the Teamsters Canada Rail Conference that shut down the freight railway operations of both railway companies. The shutdown also included passenger trains operating on CPKC tracks, but not ...
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.
2021 Manitoba hydro strike; [11] [12] 2021 St. Charles Bend strike, dispute between technical workers represented by the Oregon Federation of Nurses and Health Professionals and the St. Charles Medical Center – Bend in Oregon, United States;
John Queen (February 11, 1882 – July 15, 1946) was a labour activist and Manitoba politician who was a leader of the Winnipeg General Strike, for which he served a year in prison. He was a Labour city councillor in Winnipeg from 1916 to 1921; MLA for Winnipeg from 1920 to 1941; and the mayor of Winnipeg from 1935–1936 and 1938–1942.
University of Manitoba. 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.
Following in his father's footsteps, Woodsworth was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1896 and spent two years as a circuit preacher in Manitoba before going to study at Victoria College in the University of Toronto and at Oxford University in England. [4] While studying at Oxford University in 1899, he became interested in social welfare work.
Life and career Coyne was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, the son of Edna Margaret (née Elliott) and James Bowes Coyne, a judge at the Manitoba Court of Appeal, [1][2] who was co-prosecutor of the men accused of seditious conspiracy in the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. [3] His grandfather was lawyer and historian James Henry Coyne.