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black history month

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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, 4 yearsFebruary 23, 2021 ago
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“Fitz” St. John: A Longshoreman’s Longshoreman

by Rod Mickleburgh Esi Edugyan may have won the 2018 Giller Prize for her novel about the astounding exploits of Barbados-born Washington Black, but the story of William Fitzclarence “Fitz” St. John was the real thing. His long, remarkable life, which, like the fictitious Washington Black, also began in Barbados, Read more…

By BC Labour Heritage Centre, 5 yearsFebruary 26, 2020 ago
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