On-to-Ottawa Trek
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The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a mass protest movement in Canada in 1935 sparked by unrest among unemployed single men in federal relief camps principally in Western Canada. The trek started in Vancouver and, picking up reinforcements along the way, was conducted by riding traincars eastward. The trek was stopped in Regina where on July 1, 1935 police dispersed it with loss of life and mass arrests.
Strikers from unemployment relief camps climbing on boxcars in Kamloops, British Columbia
Scene from the Regina Riot
R. B. Bennett
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Richard Bedford Bennett, 1st Viscount Bennett was a Canadian lawyer, businessman, philanthropist, and politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Canada from 1930 to 1935.
Bennett c. 1930–1935
Young R. B. Bennett, 1901
Businessman Patrick Burns and R. B. Bennett at the Calgary Stampede in 1928
Prime Minister Bennett addressing a public meeting