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Timeline of Canadian civil disorder, riots and mutinies

  • Tom Monto
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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




1866-ish Fenian raids


1867 - Confederation


1869-70 first Riel rebellion at Red River (Winnipeg)



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 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 – Riot of unemployed in Calgary after Calgary police arrest a labour speaker.[58][59]

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




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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General reference:


Timeline of labour issues and events in Canada - includes Mountie mutinies, police killings, vigilante violence


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