Quebec students who led the longest and largest student strike in Canadian history will be in Hamilton Saturday.

It's part of a nine-day "Student Solidarity Tour" that kicked off Thursday night in Ottawa with a speech by protest leader Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois.

The student leaders will be at Hamilton city hall at 6 p.m. on Saturday.

The tour also stops in Kingston, Windsor, Niagara, London, Guelph and Toronto. It wraps up in Peterborough on July 20.

According to Sarah Jayne King of the Canadian Federation of Students for Ontario (CFSO) the event is about educating students outside of Quebec on how to fight rising post-secondary tuition fees in Ontario.

"The tour comes, I think, at an important time for Ontario students where we have a host of challenges ahead of us," she said in Ottawa. "We have seen tuition fees increase drastically since 2006."

In the 2010/2011 school year, Ontario students paid an average of $6,640 in tuition fees, according to Statistics Canada. That's the highest tuition in the country

Thousands of students in Quebec have been on strike since February to oppose a tuition fee hike of $254 a year over seven years.

Marches have taken place daily and have included classroom sit-ins. They are set to begin again in mid-August once classes resume at Quebec's 14 CÉGEP (junior) colleges.

The strike has been marred by some violence, prompting the Quebec provincial government to bring in controversial emergency legislation.

Bill 78 paused the school year at institutions with striking students, imposed fines for anyone who blocked access to a school and established guidelines on how long and where the protests can be held.

King said the Quebec student leaders are not in Ontario to promote violent action, but will instead share their experiences of how they say police have been handling protesters during the strike.

"This is not about promoting militant action," she said.

One of the tour's speakers, Jérémie Bédard-Wien with CLASSE (the Coalition large de l'association pour une solidarité syndicale étudiante) said Ontario students have good reason to protest.

"Many grassroots organizations are sprouting up in Ontario to learn from our organization tactics and it's clear Ontario students are interested in learning how we mobilize and how to prepare for a general strike," said the 20-year-old college student.