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The Labour History Project is a group of committed BC teachers — currently teaching and retired — who prepare lesson content on labour history for the BC school curriculum.

This project operates in partnership with the BC Teachers’ Federation.

Download a spreadsheet listing all of the following teaching resources.

Lesson Plans

New Lesson Plans

: Social Studies 9 – Explores indigenous labours’ role in early economy

: Explores the Spanish Flu in Canada

: Social Studies 10/Social Justice 12 – union organizing among women workers

Lessons based upon Knowledge Network series Working People: At History of Labour in British Columbia

Clicking on an image will direct you to the video and a link to the corresponding lesson plan on TeachBC, a website of teaching resources from the BC Teachers’ Federation.

Labour Studies Unit Lesson Plans

Clicking on an image will direct you to the corresponding lesson plan on TeachBC, a website of teaching resources from the BC Teachers’ Federation.

Workplace Health & Safety Lesson Plans

: Work is Hazardous to Your Health

: Workplace Safety: Asbestos Case Study

: Workplace Safety: Stave Lake Quarry Case Study

: Workplace Safety: Burns Lake and Lakeland Mill Explosions Case Study

: April 28 Day of Mourning Downloads

: Stories of union organizing in BBC

Labour History Provincial Specialist Association Journals 1976-1982.

The Labour History PSA journals were published from March, 1977 to early 1982. They included numerous articles on labour history as well as lesson ideas for use by teachers in their classrooms. They are a valuable source of labour history in British Columbia.

These materials were digitized by the BC Teachers’ Federation in 2019. Included are lesson plans and manuals for teaching labour history.