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• HREU Women Leaders - Florence Lucy nee Allen - Biographical Data

  Research chart of biographical data about Florence Lucy nee Allen (1898-1960), waitress, Local Joint Executive Board Executive, and the first Lifetime Member of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28. Allen was an Executive at the time of both purges of communists from HREU Local 28. Allen was a member of the HREU from at least 1919-1955. This is one of 30 biographical charts created about women who were on committees, served as delegates, or were on the Executives in the 1930s and 1940s. If you are a family member, please contact the researcher at library@vivomediaarts.com.
• Waitresses Protest New Budget Imposts
• Julia Leckie

  A member of the HREU Local 28
• Kay Martin

  Kay Martin was one of the white waitresses in Chinatown who was fired from her job as the result of actions by the Mayor and Chief Police Constable.
• Census of Canada 1931 - Restaurant sector data research by gender and race

  Census records contain data that are mandated to be reported to enumerators by the head of household, however, there are many exceptions in practice, including the enumerator adding data that may not be accurate. These notes on searches of the 1931 census using new Ancestry handwriting recognition tools show anonymized results for Vancouver and New Westminster districts for women in the restaurant sector by occupation, work categories, and were identified as Black, Japanese, or Chinese under the "racial origin" category. See the attached "Bulletin No XXII, Population of Canada, 1931, By Racial Origins" for more details on how the 1931 Census represented these.
• Frances Beatrice Carter Registration of Marriage

  This file is Frances Beatrice Carter's marriage registration, shedding light on her age and occupation at the time of this event.
• Sleeping Car Porters Photo

  Four Black men posing before a train wearing uniforms.
• Sleeping Car Porters Photo

  Four Black men posing before a train wearing uniforms.
• Rosemary Brown Family Tree

  Hand-written family tree by Rosemary Brown
• Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union International 31st General Convention: Canadian Caucus Minutes 1947

  Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union International 31st General Convention: Canadian Caucus Minutes April 1947. Vice President A.R. Johnstone. Sr. May Ansell Loc 28 Elected as Secretary
• Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union International 31st General Convention: Election promotional card 1947

  Convention held in at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 3, 1947. Election promotional card for C.T. McDonough General Secretary--Treasurer of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' International Alliance and Bartenders' International Leagure of America. Collected by May Ansell [Martin].
• Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union International 31st General Convention: Anti-Communist Small publications collection of May Ansell [Martin] 1947

  Convention held in at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 3, 1947. Anti-Communist Small publications collected by May Ansell [Martin]
• Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union International 31st General Convention: Newspaper clippings collection of May Ansell [Martin] 1947

  Convention held in at Milwaukee, Wisconsin, April 3, 1947. Ephemera collected by May Ansell [Martin]. Newspaper clippings.
• HREU Local 28 1947 Executive Expulsion: November 13 and 17, 1947

  A research selection of items related to the 1947 expulsion of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 executive members. This selection includes: Correspondence between Archive R. Johnstone (Nov 13) and May Leniczek (Nov 1re establishment of a dual union.
• HREU Local 28 1947 Executive Expulsion: November 12, 1947

  A research selection of items related to the 1947 expulsion of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 executive members. This selection includes: 1. Notice to all HREU Members 2. Multiple stapled notes, papers 3. Handwritten notice of meeting, Nov 12, 2 pages
• HREU Local 28 1947 Executive Expulsion: November 10, 1947

  A research selection of items related to the 1947 expulsion of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 executive members. This selection includes: 1. Public Statement on HREU Loc 28 paper 2. Letter from Archie Johnstone, annotated
• HREU Local 28 1947 Executive Expulsion: November 6,8,9 1947

  A research selection of items related to the 1947 expulsion of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 executive members. This selection includes: 1. Letter from Vancouver, New Westminster District Trades and Labor Council to May Leniczek Nov 6. 2.Notice of all-members meeting to be held November 9th, 1947 3. Letter to Archie R. Johnstone from May Leniczek, Sec. Bus. Agent HREU Local 28 asking him to attend special meeting of November 8th. 4. Minutes of the Citizens meeting Nov 9th. (2 images)
• HREU Local 28 1947 Executive Expulsion: November 3, 1947

  A research selection of items related to the 1947 expulsion of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 executive members. This selection includes: 1. Letter to be read at Meeting from Bro. James G. Lyons, Trustee Local 28; 2. HREU Loc 28 notice of special meeting sent out by Archie Johnstone, International Vice President Trustee, Local 28.
• HREU Local 28 1947 Executive Expulsion: November 1, 1947

  A research selection of items related to the 1937 expulsion of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 executive members. This selection includes: 1. Letter From Stanton and Munro to The Hon. J.W. DeB. Farris, Barrister and Solicitor re Archive Johnstone breaking HREU constitution that internal disputes are not taken to the press. November 1, 1947. Page 1 and 2. 2. Public Statement from HREU Local 28 regarding news coverage.
• HREU Local 28 1947 Executive Expulsion: October 28, 1947

  A research selection of items related to the 1947 expulsion of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 executive members. This selection includes the following 1947 minutes: Special Executive Meeting Oct 18; Special Executive Meeting Oct 30; Special Meeting November 2; Special Executive meetings, convened between membership meetings, November 3; Special Joint Executive and Shop Stewards Meeting, November 7; State of of the Executive Committee, p1 and p2.
• Hotel Vancouver c.1939 basement floor plans and architectural drawings

  Partial floor plan of the Hotel Vancouver [Owned by CN Railways opened 1939] basement. Includes parts of the cafeteria, the Men's Tavern, and the Barber Shop. The images are part of a Fairmont Vancouver Hotel webpage "THE VIBRANT GAY BAR OF HOTEL VANCOUVER IN THE 1940S".
• [Douglas Cafe - Female Help Wanted]

  Newspaper want ads, commercials, and promotional writing with mentions of "white help", "white help only", "white cooks" are evident from at least the 1910s through the 1940s. The Douglas Cafe (from the mid-1920s to later-1940s) was a low-profile local cafe operating at 844 Main Street just south of Union, next to Hogan's Alley area, and just a few blocks south of Chinatown. This woman-owned restaurant was operated with the help of her two sisters. The three had left their Russia-born parents' home on the Prairies and come west to settle. The only advertising the cafe placed in newspapers was for help, almost exclusively female. All included "white help only" or equivalent statements. They were also members of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 from the 1920s, one of only a handful of restaurants east of Carrall Street to be organized. While a1980s interview with a member of the family speaks of the cafe, this aspect of their operation was not discussed. This example raises the issues of racial stereotypes, the historic discrimination in Vancouver against Black and Asian ethnicities, and the legacy ofviolence and harrassment of women in the restaurant sector.
• Chief of Police, "W.W. Foster"

  Photograph of Vancouver Chief of Police W.W. Foster.
• Lalita Ruma Rana

  Lalita on her wedding day.
• Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union, Local 28 Meeting Minutes - Researchers' Notes

  Researchers' notes on the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 minute books. Select years: 1932-1933, 1935-1937, 1943, 1946-1948. The original meeting minutes are held at the UBC Rare Books and Special Collections, part of the Original HREU Local 28 minute books Fonds RBSC-ARC-1255 - Hotel, Restaurant and Culinary Employees' and Bartenders' Union, Local 40 fonds.