Bloody Sunday (1938)

Bloody Sunday
A plainclothes Mountie clubbing protesters leaving the post office
Date19 June 1938
Location
Caused by
Resulted inNo concessions given
Parties
Lead figures

Steve Bordie

Casualties
Injuries100 injured (43 hospitalized)
Police cordon during eviction of demonstrators
Protesters throwing rocks after eviction of sitdowners from the post office
Unemployed protesters parading back to the East End on Bloody Sunday
"Citizens protest police terror": Demonstration against police brutality in Oppenheimer Park

Bloody Sunday was the conclusion of a month-long "sitdowners' strike" by unemployed men at the main post office in Vancouver, British Columbia.[1] It was Depression-era Vancouver's final violent clash between unemployed protesters and police that provoked widespread criticism of police brutality.[2]

  1. ^ "Bloody Sunday". thecanadianencyclopedia.ca. Historica Canada. Retrieved 7 May 2020.
  2. ^ "Working People: A History of Labour in British Columbia; E21 Bloody Sunday". knowledge.ca. Knowledge Network. Retrieved 7 May 2020.