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Article: On the 90th anniversary of the 1919: Winnipeg General Strike.(Essay)
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- Canadian Dimension
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- May 1, 2009
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CANADIAN MYTHOLOGY HOLDS that this is a peaceful country. There's no class struggle, here--we never had a revolution. The Canadian way is discussion, compromise and mutual respect. We have evolution, not revolution.
But if Canada is such a peaceful place, how to explain the revolts, rebellions, uprisings and pitched battles that dot our history? How can they explain Mackenzie, Papineau, Riel, Poundmaker and other rebels whose actions have disrupted the peaceful flow of Canadian development?
The process of explaining away these inconvenient exceptions has generally taken place in two stages:
At the time of the event, and for some time after, the ...