All Hell Can't Stop Us : The On-To-Ottawa Trek and Regina Riot

Card covers, 315 pages, 6x9 in - 15x23 cm, B&W illustrations.

Light edgewear on front cover corners, front cover bottom lightly bumped.

Western Canadian historian Bill Waiser offers an account of the 1935 On-to-Ottawa trek, a protest during which disgruntled workers travelled by train from Vancouver across Canada to confront Prime Minister Richard B. Bennett. When the RCMP halted - and tried to break up- the trek in Regina, violence ensued. The first chapters set up the economic and political context for the trek and cover the journey as far as Regina, while the balance of the volume describes and analyzes the activities of federal, provincial, law enforcement, and strike actors during the events and violence in Regina. Throughout, Waiser relies on archival records and previously unexamined court transcripts.

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