One thousand unemployed Canadian workers board freight cars in Vancouver, beginning a protest trek to Ottawa.

On-to-Ottawa Trek

1935 protest movement by unemployed workers against the Canadian government

The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a mass protest movement in Canada in 1935 sparked by unrest among unemployed single men in federal relief camps principally in Western Canada. The trek started in Vancouver and, picking up reinforcements along the way, was conducted by riding traincars…