One Great History

Off The Rails: the Streetcar Strike


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How many people does it take to topple a streetcar? Where can a man hide from a mud-hurling mob? And just who is “the Big Swede,” anyway?

Answers (sort of) to all these questions and more in this episode about the time Winnipeg went absolutely nuts over a labour dispute.

 

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