An Ugly Day: The 1935 Regina Riot.

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  • Author(s): Foster, Keith
  • Source:
    Prairie History. Fall2022, Issue 9, p44-49. 6p.
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    • Abstract:
      The article focuses on 1935 Regina Riot in capital of Saskatchewan and families were starving, unable to afford heat for their homes. It mentions burning issues which fanned the flames of unrest among Canada's unemployed was the federal government's relief camp system in which the unemployed were billeted in camps with strict military discipline and paid twenty cents a day for make-work labour projects.