History 1810E Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Infant Mortality, Henry Albert Harper, Winnipeg General Strike
25 Feb 2014
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It is called the spanish flu because they believed the first confirmed cases came from spain (but they actually came from china) It was spread to north america with soldiers coming back from europe (where it spread so quickly) It spread so easily because there were hundreds of thousands of males packed into camps: this magnified it from a minor to a major outbreak. It brought a new range of government controls: curfews, public gatherings are prohibited, schools and churches were closed, they tried to cancel armistice day parades, some workplaces were closed (but in most workplaces they just wore surgical masks) These groups were especially powerful in canada in the western provinces because there were labour leaders from the u. s. who brought an aggressive spirit, and new british immigrants with. For years their union leaders have been telling them to beat the. In the summer of 1919, these two sides came together in the winnipeg general.
