1. Winnipeg General Strike 1919
The example of the Russian Revolution, the brave new worlds and peaceful utopias of wartime oratory and idealism, had bred in many an unquestioning belief that peace would bring a different and far better Canada in which government would do vastly more for them than it had ever done before (Creighton, 1970, p. 158) In the post-war period, ordinary Canadians wanted an end to privations, unequal sacrifice, and grossly contrasting benefits of prosperity (Creighton, 1970). ...
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