Its initial funding was from a female-organized picnic in Stanley Park, but its participants still had to demand supplies by besieging the city hall of Calgary.
During this event, Mayor Gerry McGeer tried to use the Riot Act to shut it down. Because of its organization by the Worker's Unity League, Justice Minister Hugh Guthrie branded it as a Communist insurrection, and ordered the railways used for travel in this event to be shut down in the capital of a province ruled by Premier Jimmy Gardiner. Its initial funding was from a female-organized picnic in Stanley Park, but its participants still had to demand supplies by besieging the city hall of Calgary. This event's leader, Arthur "Slim" Evans, went ahead to negotiate, but ended up in a shouting match with Prime Minister (*) R.B. Bennett. Its participants were told that they would be returned to Department of National Defence relief camps in British Columbia. On Dominion Day 1935, one plainclothes officer died when this event was violently broken up by the RCMP in the Regina Riot. For 10 points, name this failed Depression-era attempt by unemployed men to air their grievances by travelling to the capital of Canada.
During this event, Mayor Gerry McGeer tried to use the Riot Act to shut it down.
On-to-Ottawa Trek [accept equivalents for "trek" like march or journey]