For a Better World: The Winnipeg General Strike and the Workers` Revolt, James Naylor, Jim Mochoruk, Rhonda L. Hinther

Автор: Korneski Kurt
Название: Race, Nation, and Reform Ideology in Winnipeg, 1880s-1920s
ISBN: 1611478499 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781611478495
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Описание: Imperial Vanguard analyses the life and thought of four key reformers in Winnipeg. This book places these individuals in the context of a broader and longer history of colonialism to provide fresh insight into the history of the reform movement in Canada in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Автор: Jim Blanchard
Название: A Diminished Roar: Winnipeg in the 1920s
ISBN: 0887558399 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780887558399
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Описание: The third instalment in Blanchard's popular history of early Winnipeg, A Diminished Roar presents a city in the midst of enormous change. Once the fastest growing city in Canada, by 1920 Winnipeg was losing its dominant position in western Canada. As the decade began, Winnipeggers were reeling from the chaos of the Great War and the Influenza Pandemic. But it was the divisions exposed by the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike which left the deepest marks. As Winnipeg wrestled with its changing fortunes, its citizens looked for new ways to imagine the city's future and identity. Beginning with the opening of the magnificent new provincial Legislature Building in 1920, A Diminished Roar guides readers through this decade of political and social turmoil. At City Hall, two very different politicians dominated the scene. Winnipeg's first labour mayor, S.J. Farmer pushed for more public services. His rival, Ralph Webb, would act as the city's chief “booster” as mayor, encouraging U.S. tourists with the promise of “snowballs and highballs.” Meanwhile, promoters tried to re-kindle the city's spirits with plans for new public projects, such a grand boulevard through the middle of the city, a new amusement park, and the start of professional horse racing. In the midst of the Jazz Age, Winnipeg's teenagers grappled with “problems of the heart” and social groups like the Gyro Club organized masked balls for the city's elite.