A Diminished Roar: Winnipeg in the 1920s

by Jim Blanchard

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The third instalment in Jim Blanchard's popular history of early Winnipeg, A Diminished Roar presents a city in the midst of enormous change. Once the fastest growing city in Canada, by 1920 Winnipeg was losing its dominant position in western Canada. As the decade began, Winnipeggers were reeling from the chaos of the Great War and the influenza pandemic. But it was the divisions exposed by the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike which left the deepest marks. As Winnipeg wrestled with its changing fortunes, its citizens looked for new ways to imagine the city's future and identity.

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  • ISBN13 9780887559037
  • Publish Date 6 September 2019
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country CA
  • Imprint University of Manitoba Press
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 306
  • Language English