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On this episode of Museum Chat Live!, hear the dramatic and rarely-told story of a major strike closed shipyards across Niagara in the summer of 1861, and how the story has been turned into a play by the students at Governor Simcoe Secondary School.

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Footnotes:

Watch the students of Governor Simcoe Secondary School perform the opening scene from Strike: 1861 (virtually):

Watch the a lecture from the Virtual Museum Lecture Series about the Archaeology at Shickluna’s Shipyard: