Fox

June M. Blurton is a retired speech/language pathologist.

The Great War is over and Canada is richer than it has ever been. The
tycoons have made money from war sales. The soldiers who had fought and
suffered on the battlefields of France are coming home, determined to
make a change. No longer will they accept inadequate wages, substandard
housing, and a lack of social programs.

This is the setting for this story of the Winnipeg General Strike.
Winnipeg in 1919, like the rest of Canada, had distinct social classes
with their own values and ways of life. The author represents these
classes—the wealthy, the church, the poor, and the press—by major
characters who have differing visions of the future.

The text is interspersed with advertisements and quotations from the
newspapers of the time. These add to the feeling that the more things
change the more they remain the same. Many of the problems people faced
then are still problems for us today.

The story is complete. Unfortunately the events lack immediacy and the
characters lack depth so that the reader is seldom engaged emotionally.