Talk:Stratford General Strike of 1933

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Did you know... that during the Stratford General Strike of 1933 the Canadian military was brought in, with machine guns, to which the strikers responded with a rally and a parade?

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The result was: promoted by SL93 (talk) 16:44, 18 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

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... that during the Stratford General Strike of 1933 the Canadian military was brought in, with machine guns, to which the strikers responded with a rally and a parade? Source: [1], [2]
- ALT1:... that ...? Source: "You are strongly encouraged to quote the source text supporting each hook" (and [link] the source, or cite it briefly without using citation templates)

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Created by Uncle G (talk) and Drmies (talk). Nominated by Drmies (talk) at 18:00, 2 April 2021 (UTC).[reply]

New enough, long enough, no policy violations (doesn't read like copyvio, and Earwig is also happy). I assume the machine gun carrier is a Carden Loyd tankette, but I don't really know anything about machine guns (other than that they are the only thing counted using 挺 in Chinese). The lead is a bit short, and the ISO dates (while the best in theory) still look weird to my eye. Back to the DYK review: QPQ done. Hook facts check out, are cited inline and are reasonably interesting. Happy to pass this. —Kusma (𐍄·𐌺) 22:09, 7 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you Kusma. This is all Uncle G's work, weird dates and all. Hey, "tankette"? perhaps that explains the discrepancy I found, or what I thought was a discrepancy: one course had "tanks", the other had "carriers". Uncle? Drmies (talk) 23:31, 7 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
- I read "Carden-Lloyd machine-gun carriers" in the Arcadia source. ISBN 9780802034670 is a biography of Mitchell Hepburn and says the same. Other books say things like "Carden-Lloyd tracked machine-gun carriers". A contemporary answer to a question in the Ontario Legislative Assembly is recorded as being "No tanks were sent to Stratford. Four Carden Loyd [sic] machine gun carriers automatically accompanied Headquarters and 'C' company to Stratford.". There was a general idea that tanks were called in, reflected in Eight Men Speak (Act 4), but it was machine gun carriers according to most people correcting that (such as Filewod's annotated version of Eight Men Speak, ISBN 9780776620749 page 101). Uncle G (talk) 02:55, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
  - If you add that as a footnote, you can have another section with fancy formatting! Drmies (talk) 20:46, 8 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
    - I was going to add it to your In popular culture section that you made for the other play. I'm having trouble digging up the exact citation for the Ontario Legislative Assembly. Uncle G (talk) 09:28, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]
      - The joke here, lurkers, is that Drmies is not a fan of In popular culture sections and I often see them lead to User:Uncle G/Cargo cult encyclopaedia article writing. But Drmies or I directly spotting something on television is somewhat different to a professor at the University of Guelph writing critical commentary on an allusion in a play. Uncle G (talk) 09:28, 9 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]