The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, not a peaceful event. There are many events in our history that were brutal. The crushing of the Truckers protest in Ottawa just being the most recent example.
Nick
A train loaded with protesters from BC headed to Ottawa in 1935 made it to Saskatchewan before they got shot up by the RCMP.
RHM;
Good afternoon sir, I hope the day in your part of the world is behaving and you're well.
The "Regina Riot" was another instance where the RCMP investigated themselves and were absolved of wrongdoing....
Link to riot.
https://www.canadashistory.ca/explore/peace-conflict/the-regina-riotLink to the commission investigating what went on.
https://1935reginariot.blogspot.com/Also there was the general strike on the CPR in 1883, the then still NWMP broke the strike on behalf of the company..
"They defused many of the tensions involving the construction workers and the company, including intervening to resolve cases where the workers had not been paid by the company as promised, but they also intervened to support the railway company.
[82] When the railway staff went on strike for higher wages in 1883, the mounted police guarded the company's trains, escorted in new drivers and, when necessary, drove the locomotives themselves; two years later the police broke up a protest over unpaid wages by over a thousand construction workers, arresting the main leaders.
[83] The head of the Canadian Pacific Railway, William Van Horne, thanked the force for its contribution to the final completion of the project"
Anyways, a smooth historic road has not always been had here.
All the best.
Dwayne
