Jef Keighley Interview: Canadian Autonomy and International Solidarity

In the summer of 1954, racist signs on the women’s washrooms at the Namu fish cannery divided the facilities between “Whites” and “Natives”. They had been there for years, but despite demands from bot...

Cathy Walker was born in Vancouver, BC in 1949 and grew up in Burnaby. Her father was a member of the Machinists Union which influenced her perspective while growing up. She attended Simon Fraser Univ...

Named after the famous song written by IWW singer and activist, Joe Hill, this film is inspired by his words and IWW organizing efforts amongst railway workers in the interior of BC. What values, if a...

Michele Alexander was born in St. Boniface, Manitoba. She moved to the United States in the early sixties after her parents divorced and her mother married an American. She returned to Canada in 1992 ...

This collection includes textual materials, photographs, meeting minutes, correspondence, newsletters, circulars and briefs covering the period of 1931 to 1974. The union’s full name is the Brotherhoo...

Historian Janet Nicol reconstructs the events leading up to the tragic airplane crash that killed 23 workers in 1951....