Recollections of the On to Ottawa trek / by Ronald Liversedge with documents related to the Vancouver strike and the on to Ottawa trek, edited by Victor Hoar.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Liversedge, Ronald., author.

Contributor:

Howard, Victor, 1933- editor.

Series:

Carleton library ; no. 66.

The Carleton Library ; Number 66

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Unemployed--Canada.

Labor camps--Canada.

Depressions--1929--Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (348 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Toronto, [Ontario] : McClelland and Stewart, 1973.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The author experienced the Depression with the deprivations of unemployment and life in the work camps. He helped organize the B.C. Relief Camp strike, and later participated in the On to Ottawa Trek, which ended in a confrontation with the federal police in Regina.

Contents:

Introduction

Chronology of the Vancouver Strike and the On to Ottawa Trek, 1935

Part One : Recollections of the On to Ottawa Trek

A Note on Editing, Part One

Chapter I, Prelude to Struggle

Chapter II, The Origin of the Family

Chapter III, The Slave Camps

Chapter IV, Strike

Chapter V, The Trek

Part Two : Documents related to the Vancouver Strike and the On to Ottawa Trek. A Note on Editing, Part Two

1. The Report of the Macdonald Commission

2. The Vancouver Relief Camp Strike

3.The On to Ottawa Trek

4. The Interview Between the Delegation of Strikers and the Prime Minister and His Cabinet, June 22, 1935

5. Continuing Documents on the On to Ottawa Trek

6. The Regina Riot

7. Debate in the House of Commons re: the B.C. Relief Camp Strikers, July 2, 1935, 251.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7735-8306-8

OCLC:

893231875