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Charles Frederick Gray (17 December 1879 – 27 June 1954) was a Canadian politician, the 27th Mayor of Winnipeg in 1919 and 1920. Gray was born in London, England and moved to Canada, eventually settling in Winnipeg. In 1917, he joined the city's Board of Control, He successfully sought election as mayor the next year.
- Deportations
- Royal Commission
- 'Tense Times' For Judge's Family
- From Labour to Government
Authorities had also arrested 12 others they called "foreign rioters" or "alien rioters" from the Bloody Saturday crowd. They were refused formal deportation proceedings, instead appearing before police magistrate Hugh John Macdonald — son of former Canadian prime minister Sir John A. Macdonald — who ordered them sent to an internment camp in Kapus...
Despite the clampdown by authorities, the actions of those behind labour's 1919 uprising were validated a few months after the strike ended. A royal commission was ordered by the provincial government to report on the causes and effects of the general strike. Chaired by Hugh Amos Robson, it was conducted from July until November 1919 and made publi...
The trials weren't only taxing for the strike leaders. They took a toll on the judge and his family. Ross Hatton Metcalfe, the great-nephew of Thomas Llewellyn Metcalfe, told CBC News the family was the target of death threats, so security was hired to guard their homes and walk the children to school. One of those kids was Ross's father, who was 1...
Many of the strike's leaders found further vindication when they were elected to government. Russell, Armstrong, Ivens, Johns, Dixon, Pritchard and Queen ran in the 1920 Manitoba election, while still behind bars. All but three — Russell, Johns and Pritchard — were elected. The U of M's Jones believes the strike leaders' trials, intended to weaken ...
May 15, 2019 · Mayor Gray said he was not behind the raids, which were primarily the idea of Citizens' Committee founding member Alfred (A.J.) Andrews and Senator Robertson, Manitoba Historical Society...
On January 18, 1990, Barry was arrested with a former girlfriend, Hazel Diane "Rasheeda" Moore, in a sting operation at the Vista International Hotel by the FBI and D.C. police for crack cocaine use and possession.
Apr 5, 2021 · Charles Gray Jr. was charged with meth, fleeing or evading on foot, giving officer false information, attempted escape, resisting arrest, possession of drug paraphernalia, public intoxication....
Memorable Manitobans. : Charles Frederick Gray (1879-1954) Engineer, Mayor of Winnipeg (1919-1920). Born at London, England on 17 December 1879, he was a consulting electrical engineer with no apparent links to Winnipeg ’s commercial elite before his election to the Board of Control in 1917. He lived in Elm Park.
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Gray was Mayor of Winnipeg during the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, standing firm during cries for a parade by the strikers, and surviving an attempt on his life. Gray and his wife Edith Curran had three children, Charles Jr. (who died in 1925), Eileen, Avis, and Hubert (Hub).
