A crowd had gathered along Main Street to watch a pro-strike parade of returned soldiers. Ketchen acted immediately, sending soldiers from the Royal Winnipeg Rifles, the Winnipeg Grenadiers, the Winnipeg Light Infantry and the Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders to patrol the streets.

The events of Bloody Saturday resulted from this intervention by the military and the Royal North West Mounted Police. The General Strike was one of the very few times in Canada’s history when soldiers were ordered to occupy a Canadian city and to police its own citizens.

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