Mining

400 miners, 100 police, two navy ships and a machine gun Anyox was a small, isolated company-owned coastal community in northwestern B.C. without road or rail access. It was mined between 1914-1935 for its copper and other precious metals by...

Miners’ Union Hospitals were a radical response to the critical need for inclusive health care in B.C.’s mining communities more than 100 years ago. At least six local unions of the Western Federation of Miners established their own hospitals in...

Much of the colonial history of BC 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...