Anarchist Neighborhood:Winnipeg

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Winnipeg is a city in the centre of the country of Canada, in the province of Manitoba. It is known in radical circles for the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, and for the Old Market Autonomous Zone (or A-Zone), a three-storey building which houses the collectively-run Mondragón bookstore & coffeehouse, G7 Welcoming Committee Records, as well as a host of other worker-run collectives and grassroots activist and anarchist organizations.

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Winnipeg was the site of the Red River Rebellion in the late 19th century. At this time, Winnipeg was known as the Red River colony, and a group of Métis, the descendents of French voyageurs and indigenous people who made up the majority of the population of the colony, took up arms against the encroaching government of Canada, who had begun surveying the land to prepare to annex it without consulting those already living there. Louis Riel, the leader of the rebellion, ended up being hung by the Canadian government over a decade later for the charge of treason.

Just after the first world war, in 1919, the city saw the Winnipeg General Strike, the most influential labour action in Canada's history.