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Winnipeg General Strike
An eerie calm descended on the streets of Winnipeg on the morning of May 15, 1919. The street cars and delivery wagons lay idle. Some 50,000 tradesmen, labourers, city and provincial employees had walked off the job, leaving the city paralyzed. It was North America’s first “general strike”...
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Prairie settlers build their first home from the same sod they break to grown their crops. (1890s)
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1929 - Claude Morin, professor, politician, considered one of the prime thinkers behind the Quiet Revolution, was born at Montmorency, Qué.
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   - Günther Grass
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