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Winnipeg, Manitoba: Manitoba Federation of Labour, 2019. 100th Anniversary Edition. Card Covers. Unpaginated [pp. 56]. Tall 8vo., measuring 27 x 11 cm. Richly illustrated with black-and-white and colour photographs, maps, illustrations; rear cover folds out to reveal large colour-coded map highlighting various sites of significance. Clean, and unmarked; fine. Corresponds to OCLC #1089805835. At time of cataloguing not found in Peel, UoM Archives & Special Collections, et al. "This brochure provides an introduction to the history of the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike. It is written to inspire readers to imagine the exciting, tense, and frightening events that gripped Winnipeg in the spring of 1919. The tour is an invitation to explore Winnipeg's neighbourhoods and to consider the gender, racial, and ethnic diversity that characterized the city at the end of the First World War. It is an opportunity to consider the deep divisions in social class that contributed so fundamentally to the events of 1919.… Read More