Research Catalog

Title

"We were the salt of the earth!" : a narrative of the On-to-Ottawa trek and the Regina riot / by Victor Howard.

Author

Howard, Victor, 1933-

Publication

[Regina] : Canadian Plains Research Center, University of Regina, 1985.

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Details

Description

xii, 206 p., [16] p. of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

"The Regina Riot, which erupted in that city's Market Square on July 1, 1935, was the climax of a strike by relief camp workers which had begun in British Columbia on April 4. After lingering two months in Vancouver, the participants struck out east by freight train, on to Ottawa, where they intended to tell the Government of Canada that the situation of the unemployed had become intolerable. The origins of the Strike, the Trek, and the Riot -- the character of those events -- are what this book is all about. It is a narrative, composed from federal, provincial and municipal records, from news reports, from interviews with participants, from sworn testimony, from photographs, from maps, from sawn-off baseball bats. It is the story of an event which figured prominently, at the same instant, in the history of the Canadian worker, in the history of the Canadian radical, in the histories of two Canadian cities and in the history of R. B. Bennet's Depression years government." --

Series Statement

Canadian plains studies, 0317-6290 ; 14

Uniform Title

Canadian plains studies ; 14.

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Unemployed > Canada > History > 20th century
• Working class > Political activity > History > Canada > 20th century
• Labor camps > Canada > History > 20th century
• Strikes and lockouts > Canada > History > 20th century
• Depressions > 1929 > Canada
• Riots > Saskatchewan > Regina > History > 20th century
• Unemployment > Canada > History
• Working class > Political activity > History. > Canada
• Labor camps > Canada
• Unemployment
• Depressions
• Economic history
• Labor camps
• Riots
• Strikes and lockouts
• Unemployed
• Working class > Political activity
• Aufruhr
• On to Ottawa Trek
• Crise économique (1929) > Saskatchewan (Canada)
• Grèves et lock-out > Saskatchewan (Canada)
• Canada > Economic conditions > 1918-1945
• Canada > History > 1914-1945
• Regina (Sask.) > History > 20th century
• Canada
• Saskatchewan > Regina
• Regina Saskatchewan

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 181-183.

ISBN

• 0889770379
• 9780889770379

LCCN

86143326

OCLC

• ocm12958772
• 12958772
• SCSB-1163292

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library