On 21 June 1919, participants in the Winnipeg General Strike overturned a street car to protest the poor economic prospects of returning veterans. This event has come to be known as Bloody Saturday, so called because two strikers were killed when the RCMP shot into the crowd.
One hundred years later, on 21 June 2019, a monument at the corner of Main Street and Market Avenue was unveiled on the spot at which the streetcar was overturned. Created by artists Bernie Miller and Noam Gonick, the work was created with support of the Public Art Program of the Winnipeg Arts Council. It was made by Ironworkers Local 728 with additional support of CentreVenture, the Winnipeg Foundation, Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1505, IATSE Local 856, private donors, and the Manitoba Federation of Labour and Manitoba's Unions.
Crowd tips a streetcar on Bloody Saturday (July 2019) by Lewis B. Foote
Source: Archives of Manitoba, Foote Collection
Bloody Saturday Street Car Monument under construction (2019)
Source: Noam Gonick
Bloody Saturday Street Car Monument being lifted into place (2019)
Source: Noam Gonick
Bloody Saturday Street Car Monument (July 2019)
Source: George PennerSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.89913, W97.13830
denoted by symbol on the map above
“When the City Stood Still: The Iconography of Dissent in the Winnipeg General Strike” by Wayne Chan, Manitoba History, Number 90 (Fall 2019).
We thank Noam Gonick for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by George Penner and Anne Brazeau.
Page revised: 10 October 2026
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