Article: Politics in the park: Winnipeg's Victoria Park during the General Strike.

The following essay was the winner of the Manitoba Historical Society's 1999 Edward C. Shaw "Young Historians" Award.

Gray and empty, the old thermal power plant stands behind the Centennial Concert Hall. Each day hundreds of people drive past it, never even taking a second glance. It has been years since it operated, and today it stands waiting as the city decides what will happen with the land. However, beneath this desolate building, there was once a park which eighty-one years ago became the meeting place of thousands of workers fighting for their rights during The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919. Although today the park has been destroyed, sacrificed in the ...

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