Reesors siding incident.

Along with the Terry Fox memorial this is another monument that I have driven past and never really taken the time to check out. Situated near Hearst Ontario the monument stands just by the side of the road. The snow is still pretty bad there and when I stopped it hadn't been cleared so the picture was taken from the highway.

This is the site of one of the bloodiest clashes in Canadian labour history. In January 1963, a contract dispute led to a strike by members of the Lumber and Sawmill Workers' Union who cut pulpwood for the paper mill in Kapuskasing. They tried to shut down the mill by blockading pulpwood shipments from independent contractors. Just after midnight on February 11, over 400 strikers arrived at Reesor Siding to dump logs stockpiled by a local woodcutters' cooperative. As they approached the woodpiles, 20 armed woodcutters began shooting. Three of the strikers were killed, another eight wounded. The tragedy prompted the provincial government to intervene and settle the strike by arbitration.