On 21 June 1919, participants in the Winnipeg General Strike overturned a street car to protest the poor economic prospects of returning veterans. This event has come to be known as Bloody Saturday, so called because two strikers were killed when the RCMP shot into the crowd. Today, a monument marks the spot on which the streetcar was overturned.
Bloody Saturday Street Car Monument (July 2019)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.89913, W97.13830
denoted by symbol on the map above
“When the City Stood Still: The Iconography of Dissent in the Winnipeg General Strike” by Wayne Chan, Manitoba History, Number 90 (Fall 2019)..
This page was prepared by George Penner and Anne Brazeau.
Page revised: 13 July 2022
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