How did Canada's 1% and 99% respond to the Russian Revolution?
“Influenced by labour agitation, their morale weakened by poor weather and the Spanish flu, two companies of Québécois conscripts refused to leave Victoria for Vladivostok.” The little-known mutiny of December 21, 1918, served as the focus for Victoria-based historian Benjamin Isitt’s important, and well-documented, recent book.more
