Arthur H. Evans fonds. 1926-1944.

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Arthur H. Evans fonds. 1926-1944.

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Fonds consists of legal documents, reports, publications, speeches, newspaper clippings and other material related to Evans' labour activities, including the On-to-Ottawa Trek and resulting Regina Riot Commission, and the defence of Trek members arrested in the Regina Riot. There is also material related to the Canadian Labour Defence League, the Communist Party of Canada, and material in support of the Republicans in the Spanish Civil War.

30 cm. of textual material.

University of British Columbia Library

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Evans, Arthur Herbert, 1890-1944

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Arthur H. Slim Evans was born in Toronto in 1890. He was a labour activist best known for leading the On-to-Ottawa Trek from Vancouver in 1935. The Trek was intended to go to Ottawa to confront politicians about conditions in work camps and continued unemployment, but ended in Regina. He was also involved in several other labour activities, including a relief camp workers strike, the Princeton mine workers strike (for which he was jailed). He died in 1944 as a result of a car crash. ...