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Union Maids in Action – The 1918 Steam Laundry Strike

Content provided by Patricia Wejr and Rod Mickleburgh Download the lesson plan Listen to the podcast The intense class struggle of the first two decades of the twentieth century in B.C. included a small but strong group of women. Many women showed their mettle during early strikes. An example was Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 6 daysFebruary 2, 2023 ago
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Alice West

A Formidable Force for Working Women by Rod Mickleburgh with Donna Sacuta Alice West was a BC union pioneer who died on September 17, 2021 at the age of 95. She devoted much of her working life to paving a better path for working women, mostly as a formidable force Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 1 yearNovember 26, 2021 ago
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“Make It Public!”: The History of HEU’s Fight Against Privatization

Historic Reversal of a Government “Betrayal” Written and researched by Bailey Garden, BCLHC Project Manager On Aug. 30th 2021, the provincial government of BC under the New Democratic Party (BC NDP) announced that dietary and housekeeping workers in the healthcare industry would be brought back into the public domain after Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 1 yearSeptember 9, 2021 ago
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“Grudge not the poor miner his food”: Rebecca Gibbs, Barkerville Laundress and Poet

Written and researched by Bailey Garden, BCLHC Project Manager Much of the colonial history of this province has centered the perspectives of white male settlers who came in search of gold and glory. While gold miners tended to work on their own claims, some of the earliest labour organizing in Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 2 yearsFebruary 23, 2021 ago
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A socialist funeral for ‘Mrs Kavanagh’

Hilda Harvey Kavanagh died in second wave of 1919 Spanish Flu by Donna Sacuta, BCLHC Executive Director British Columbia experienced three waves of the “Spanish Flu” epidemic in 1918-19. As many as 1,000 people died in Vancouver alone over 15 months of the influenza. Health officials were baffled by the Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 2 yearsNovember 19, 2020 ago

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