'On-To-Ottawa Trek, 1935

(Part 3 )

It appears that the anti-vaxxing truckers’ protest that besieged Ottawa and blocked cross-border points, inconvenienced 1000s of fellow Canadians and cost the nation 100s of millions of dollars, has been shut down by police.

The crisis reached the point that, for only the second time in history, the Emergency Act was invoked.

In trying to compare the ‘On-To-Ottawa Trek’ by thousands of unemployed men in 1935 to the three-week-long occupation of Ottawa, next week’s Chronicle is based upon the recollections of onetime Lake Cowichan resident and Spanish Civil War veteran Ronald Liversedge.

His account of the Woodward’s fracas and the eight-hour occupation of the Vancouver Public Museum, as seen from the inside of the unemployed workers’ protests, is, as to be expected, partisan.

That said, however, his description of the events leading up to the Ottawa Trek, as he recalled them while living in Lake Cowichan in the 1960s, is accepted as being one of the best accounts of these epoch events in Canadian history.

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PHOTO: Street barbecues, yes, but no need of soup kitchens for the protesting truckers in Ottawa. —Public Domain