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Vancouver’s 1932 Hunger March

“A Great Tide of Humanity Protesting Against Inhumanity” Researched and written by Donna Sacuta 6,000 March in Vancouver Despite police predictions that it would be a “dismal failure”, 6,000 men, women and children descended on the Powell Street grounds—now Oppenheimer Park—in Vancouver on 22 February 1932 for a “Hunger March”, Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 2 yearsMarch 2, 2023 ago
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Labour Days of Old

Carpenters in Aprons, Metalworkers in Tin Hats and Morticians in Black by Donna Sacuta, BCLHC Executive Director Underlying Racism Excluded Many Parades – particularly Labour Day parades – were big attractions in the early years of British Columbia. While a venue for unionized workers to assert their place in society Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 3 yearsJuly 11, 2022 ago
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Never Give Up the Ship: The Raid on the SS Bawnmore

Written and researched by Donna Sacuta JANUARY 18, 1893: A light snow fell on Nanaimo harbour. The British steamer Bawnmore – a coastal freighter carrying a non-union crew – was anchored at Esplanade Wharf. The crew had not been paid for months. Shortly after 11 pm a small boat pulled Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 5 yearsJanuary 28, 2020 ago
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Early Labour Day Parades

by Bob McDonald This article is reprinted from the May 2019 Vancouver Historical Society newsletter. Bob McDonald, one of BC’s leading historians, passed away on June 19, 2019. This image is from a Labour Day parade on Hastings Street in Vancouver in the late 1890s. Here we see a forty-foot Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 6 yearsJuly 30, 2019 ago
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Miners Memorial Weekend

33rd Miners Memorial Weekend and Ginger Goodwin Commemoration 2018 by Joey Hartman and Karen Ranalletta 100 years ago, 31-year-old labour organizer Albert “Ginger” Goodwin was shot and killed by special police constable Dan Campbell as he hid in the hills above Cumberland, BC. Goodwin and others in those hills were Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 7 yearsJune 26, 2018 ago
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