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At the height of the Great Depression, 2,000 young, single, unemployed and homeless men decided to ride boxcars from Vancouver to Ottawa to seek work and wages from Prime Minister "Iron Heel" R.B. Bennett. Their undertaking became the On-To-Ottawa Trek. Vancouver Advocate cub reporter Mark Hunter is given the perilous assignment of infiltrating the Trek. Once accepted into the journey, can he remain incognito? Can he endure the odyssey's hardships and dangers? Also, can he survive the Trek's violent ending? Most important, can he provide objective and accurate reporting of the historic event?
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Mr. Dupuis's revealing historical novel, The Incognito Reporter and the On-to-Ottawa Trek is about labour unrest during the Great Depression in Canada. Centering on the 1935 On-to-Ottawa protest, in which workers from Western Canada rode the rails toward the Canadian capital to protest low pay and conditions at work camps, this exciting story centers on clashes with police officers leading up to an infamous riot. All is seen through the perspective of twenty-two-year-old reporter, Mark Hunter, who goes undercover as a disheveled, destitute striker, surreptitiously making notes in his diary.
-Foreword Clarion Review
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