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In the late summer of 1891, the Ottawa Valley timber traide was beset with labour problems. What had been an undercurrent of employee discontent quickly developed into a torrent of labour protest when twenty-four hundred men walked off their jobs in a dispute centered on the lumber mills of Hull and Ottawa at the region known as the Chaudiere. The action by these workers, who disrupted this important industry for almost five weeks, was probably the largest strike that had occurred in Canada up to that time. ...An analysis of the strike, however, exposes the attitudes of management, labour and community in such a confrontation, and provides valuable insights into the extent of labour activity in Canada in the last decades of the nineteenth century.