Updates
Read our latest news and learn about upcoming events, such as workshops and guided tours.
Winter Closure 2025
Our office will be closed from December 18 2025 until Jan 2 2026. We will reopen January 5, 2026 with our usual schedule: Monday-Thursday, 9am-3pm. In the meanwhile, check out our On The Line podcast for any stories you might have missed! There are more than 30 episodes on a wide variety of topics. Let us know which is your [...]
Read the December 2025 Newsletter
Catch up on the latest labour heritage news with our December newsletter. Learn about the the hard-working women in the fruit packing plants who became known as the “Apple Box Belles”. December 2025 newsletter. Sign up below to get the monthly newsletter direct to your inbox.
Labour History Teaching Resources
Discover BC teaching resources for your classroom in this newsletter. We had an excellent turnout at our workshop “Who Tells the Story? Unpacking Historical Narratives in BC History” at the BC Social Studies Teachers' Association 2025 Fall Conference. There was some great discussion, and a lot of interest in our resources. Read more here.
Read the November 2025 Newsletter
Catch up on the latest labour heritage news with our November newsletter. Learn about the of 1947 nation-wide packinghouse strike that secured a master agreement system, turning the young United Packinghouse Workers Union into one of the most militant in Canadian labour history. Read the November 2025 newsletter. Sign up below to get the monthly newsletter direct to your inbox.
Read the October Newsletter
Our October newsletter reports that 497 issues of the B.C. Workers’ News (1935-1946) have been digitized with a grant from the BC History Digitzation Project. The newspaper also published as People’s Advocate, Advocate, The People, People, Pacific Advocate and The Pacific Tribune. Under censorship provisions of the War Measures Act, the Communist Party's publication was forced to cease publication for [...]
Read the September Newsletter
As the Ironworkers Bridge collapsed around him, Ken Johnstone stayed on the job and saved lives. Read this story and more in this months' newsletter. We also share an update and photos from last month's plaque unveiling. In August we unveiled a new historic plaque in Nanaimo, remembering the 23 workers killed in the 1951 aviation disaster at Mount Benson. [...]