The 1931 Estevan Strike and Black Tuesday National Historic Event

Bienfait, Saskatchewan
A street scene during the Estevan riot of September 29, 1931. © PAS Photo R-B14216 (1)-(5). Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan / PAS Photo R-B14216 (1)-(5). Archives provinciales de la Saskatchewan
Street scene during the Estevan Riot, Sept.29,1931
© PAS Photo R-B14216 (1)-(5). Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan / PAS Photo R-B14216 (1)-(5). Archives provinciales de la Saskatchewan
A street scene during the Estevan riot of September 29, 1931. © PAS Photo R-B14216 (1)-(5). Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan / PAS Photo R-B14216 (1)-(5). Archives provinciales de la SaskatchewanAnnie Buller speaking to miners in Estevan, Sept 27, 1931. © PAS Photo R-A32584. Provincial Archives of Saskatchewan / PAS Photo R-A32584. Archives provinciales de la Saskatchewan
Address : Bienfait, Saskatchewan

Recognition Statute: Historic Sites and Monuments Act (R.S.C., 1985, c. H-4)
Designation Date: 2026-02-19

Other Name(s):
  • The 1931 Estevan Strike and Black Tuesday  (Designation Name)
Research Report Number: 2025-04, 2025-04-A

Importance: 30-day strike emblematic of the deep divide between Canada’s struggling workers and company owners during the 1930s and the barriers to unionization; riot in the polarized context of the Depression that endures as a tragic legacy of this decade