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The
Winnipeg
General
Strike of
1919, the
largest-ever
community strike
in Canada, saw
over 30,000 workers
leave their jobs and
bring the city to a
standstill for weeks. Eventually, then-
Mayor Charles F. Gray was forced to
enact the Riot Act. The strike is now the
subject of Stand!, a major motion picture.
The word Winnipeg means "muddy water"
in Cree and the city was established at the
junction of the Red and Assiniboine rivers—The
Forks—a meeting place for more than 6,000
years and Winnipeg's most visited tourist
destination.
Historical
Roots
Courtesty
Juncatta
Photography
In the early 1900s, Winnipeg doctor and
member of the Manitoba Legislature, Thomas
Glendenning Hamilton hosted countless séances
inside his Elmwood home. He took thousands
of pictures during the table tipping and Ouija
board demonstrations and used mediums to
communicate with the dead. After gaining
worldwide interest, Sherlock Holmes author
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle attended a séance at
Hamilton's home and later declared, "Winnipeg
stands very high among the places we have visited
for its psychic possibilities."
