Oshawa

===Strike: 1937===
On 8 April 1937, disputes between 4,000 assembly line workers and General Motors management led to the Oshawa Strike, a salient event in the history of Canadian [[trade unionism]]. As the weight of the [[Great Depression]] slowly began to lift, demand for automobiles again began to grow. The workers sought higher wages, an eight-hour workday, better working conditions and recognition of their union, the [[United Auto Workers]] (Local 222). The then-Liberal government of [[Mitchell Hepburn]], which had been elected on a platform of being the working man's friend, sided with the corporation and brought in armed university students to break up any union agitation. These much-derided "Hepburn's Hussars" and "Sons of Bitches" were never needed as the union refused to be drawn into violent acts. The union and workers had the backing of the local population, other unions and the [[Co-operative Commonwealth Federation]] party and, on 23 April, two weeks after the strike started, the company gave in to most of the workers' demands, although it pointedly did not recognize the union.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Abella |first=Irving |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tGa5ju-XbyEC |title=On Strike: Six Key Labour Struggles in Canada 1919–1949 |publisher=James Lorimar and Company |year=1974 |isbn=0-88862-057-8 |location=Toronto, Ontario, Canada |pages=93–128 |author-link=Irving Abella |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180328004012/https://books.google.com/books?id=tGa5ju-XbyEC |archive-date=28 March 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref>

[[File:Church near Parkville Estate, Oshawa..jpg|thumb|left|A historic church in Oshawa: St. Gregory the Great]]