City on Strike

The 1919 Winnipeg General Strike was a key moment in Canadian history, when demands of workers and returning soldiers all played out in the bloody streets of Winnipeg. The governing elite condemned the strike organizers as “Bolsheviks” and unleashed waves of violence. The country hasn’t fully healed since.

City on Strike is a riveting middle grade-fiction focusing on a 13-year-old boy and his younger sister, part of a poor but hardworking immigrant family in Winnipeg’s North End. And like so many others, it’s a family that gets drawn into the chaos that terrible spring.