The Winnipeg General Strike collection contains digitized documents from the Charles F. Gray Family fonds, held in Archives and Special Collections. The fonds was donated by the family of Charles F. Gray in 2017.

About Charles F. Gray

Charles F. Gray was the mayor of Winnipeg during the General Strike which occurred between 15 May-25 June 1919 and is Canada’s best known general strike. The Winnipeg General Strike Digital Collection contains digitized documents from the Charles F. Gray Family fonds and includes letters between Mayor Gray and private citizens and businessmen of Winnipeg, politicians in civic, provincial and federal governments, and other public agencies involved in the strike, handwritten and typed notes and reports compiled by the mayor and others during the strike, telegrams, speeches and proclamations from the mayor, court documents from judicial proceedings following the strike, newspaper clippings from several local newspapers, some issues of the strike newspaper, an some photographs of the crowds and the mayor on the streets of Winnipeg. As well as portraits of him and his wife, Edith the collection contains some documents relating to his mayoral election campaign in 1918.