This image shows crowds gathering in the streets for the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike. The largest industrial action of its kind in the history of Canada, more than 30,000 workers walked out of their jobs for just over a month. Striving for fairer wages and better working conditions in the face of post-war inflation, strikers included those from factories, shops, post offices, the emergency services and the railways.

Though the protest wasn’t immediately successful, it did unite Winnipeg’s (and Canada’s) working class.

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