BC Workers’ News, Newspaper 1935-1946

The Pacific Tribune, was a consistent source of reporting and analysis of labour movements and people’s struggles in British Columbia. Originally established by the Communist Party of Canada as ...

The Fisherman bi-weekly newspaper documents shore workers and other labourers working in the fishing industry. Canneries, Indigenous peoples, commercial fishing activities, equipment, and processes, u...

In 1947, youth in Chemainus and Ladysmith, BC led the first ever children’s strike. It was a protest against the rising cost of chocolate. The price of a typical bar had ballooned suddenly from five c...

With a population of 2,479 in 1931, the city of Prince George, BC had hundreds of unemployed. That year, a branch of the communist-led National Unemployed Workers Association (NUWA) was established in...

“The March to Ballantyne Pier” by Janet Mary Nicol, provides a detailed account of a pivotal event in Vancouver’s labour history: the longshoremen’s strike and the subsequent v...

In this 2023 conversation, Colleen Fuller talks about growing up in a politically active family and her life of political and labour activism. She was born in the United States to parents active in th...