Timeline of Canadian civil disorder, riots and mutinies
- Tom Monto
- 12 hours ago
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1700s
1753 - Lunenburg Rebellion -- new arrivals upset at conditions
1798 Newfoundland Regiment of Foot mutiny - leaders hanged (see Wiki "Royal Newfoundland Regiment")
1800s
1835-1845 Shiners' War
1837 Rebellions Mackenzie-Papineau
participants hanged or transported to Australia
1837-1838 Patriot incursions -- inspired by republican sentiment. participants transported to Australia
1st Parliament of the Province of Canada (election violence)
1866-ish Fenian raids
1867 - Confederation
1869-70 first Riel rebellion at Red River (Winnipeg)
1875 Jubilee riots
1885 North-West Rebellion -- Riel's second rebellion and his last - he was hanged
1886 NWMP constables mutiny at Edmonton (see Wiki "Timeline of Labour issues...Canada")
1900s
1917 Conscription Crisis of 1917 - riots in Quebec
1918 Vancouver general strike in honour of Ginger Goodwin
1918 situation approached general strike in Edmonton due to firefighters' grievance
1919-1921 Canadian Labour Revolt
1919 One Big Union founded in Calgary
1919 Edmonton general strike
1919 Victoria general strike
1919 Vancouver general strike
1921 Communist Party founded
1922 Edmonton coal miners on strike police violence against picketlines
Depression
1931 – Estevan riot. Four strikers shot to death by RCMP officers police killing
1932 Edmonton Hunger March Premier Brownlee and Mayor Knott blamed
1932 CCF founded in Calgary
1935 On-to-Ottawa Trek
1935 Regina riot
1938 Bloody Sunday (1938)
WWII
1944 Terrace mutiny Canadian army
1945 Halifax riot Canadian army Canadian navy
Post-War
1949 Canadian Navy mutinies (see Wiki "History of the Royal Canadian Navy")
1958 – Newfoundland Loggers' Strike is conducted by the International Woodworkers of America
1961 – September 10, a Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers meeting at Sudbury Arena, regarding the union's controversial proposal to merge with the United Steelworkers, erupts into a riot
1969 – Murray-Hill riot, Montreal police force on strike. FLQ, taxi drivers, and others take radical action
date? Richard Riot -- launched Quebec's Quiet Revolution
1976 – Canadian general strike: Day of Action (October 14) one-day general strike against Trudeau's anti-inflationary wages and price controls. More than one million workers stay home
2000s
2003? Edmonton Canada Day riot
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Stony Monday Riot
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General reference:
Timeline of labour issues and events in Canada - includes Mountie mutinies, police killings, vigilante violence
Categories
Canadian Race Riots
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