The On-to-Ottawa Trek was a mass protest movement in Canada in 1935 sparked by unrest among unemployed single men in federal relief camps principally in Western Canada. The trek started in Vancouver and, picking up reinforcements along the way, was conducted by riding traincars eastward. The trek was stopped in Regina where on July 1, 1935, police dispersed it with loss of life and mass arrests.

Headlines from June 3, 1935

French Jail Three Nazis Cycling Near Border Fort

CRIME IN CITY ROSE BY 15% LAST YEAR; But Valentine Reports Decline in Murder and Manslaughter Cases From 1933 Levels.

Babe Ruth 'Quits' Braves And Is Dropped by Club; Unconditionally Released Following Wrangle Over Attending Normandie Celebration -- Declares He Will Stay in Baseball.

QUAKE-RUINED CITY WILL BE ABANDONED; Hope of More Rescues Ended as Isolation of Quetta Is Ordered as Health Act.

BORAH CHALLENGES 'MENDERS' TO RISK CONSTITUTION POLL; People Alone Should Decide if States Are to Lose Powers, He Says in Radio Talk.

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