Items

• [Unidentified chambermaids or waitresses]

  A photo of unidentified chambermaids or waitresses. c.1930s. This was possibly taken in Nova Scotia where May Martin did organizing work. Courtesy of May Martin.
• [May Ansell (Martin) in automobile she and Ted Ansell drove from Windsor, Ontario.]

  A photo of May Ansell in the automobile that she and husband Ted Ansell drove from Windsor, Ontario, to Calgary, Alberta. They sold it in Calgary for cash and hitchhiked to Vancouver. April 1940.
• [Emily Nuttal and May Martin with respective male partners]

  A photo of Emily Nuttal and May Martin with their respective male partners. Courtesy of May Martin.
• [Barbara Stewart and Anita Sarich. Sarich is wearing a traditional Yugoslavian dress]

  A photo of Barbara Stewart and Anita Sarich, in which Sarich is wearing a traditional Yugoslavian dress.
• [H.R.E.U. Milwaukee Convention April 7, 1947]

  An image shows a table of men celebrating at the Milwaukee Convention 1947. Courtesy of Edra McLeod.
• Report of the Vancouver Revolutionary Workers League Women's Caucus

  An internal report by Revolutionary Workers League members Cleo and Hildebrand on the need for a supported and sustained Women's Caucus within the RWL. Mention is made in support of a caucus for gay comrades as well.
• Women's Labour History Project: Summer 1979 Guide to Collection: Provincial Archives of British Columbia; SFU; BC Federation of Labour

  Oral history summaries / guide to collection. Missing pages 21-24.
• Native Indian Woman Denied Relief; Sing as you Fight

  Newspaper clipping of "Native [Indigenous] Women Denied Relief" and "Sing as you Fight" song lyrics in BC Workers News.
• Women's Labour History in British Columbia: A Bibliography, 1930-48

  Bibliography of Women's Labour History in British Columbia, 1930-1948 compiled by Sara Diamond. Includes general sources, the depression years, the war years, and the immediate post-war period.
• Women's Labour History Project Guide to the Collection (1978-1979) Prepared by Sara Diamond

  Women's Labour History Project Guide to Collection (1978-1979) prepared by Sara Diamond including women's labour history project interviewees and descriptions.
• Anne Marshall Interview

  An interview of Anne Marshall conducted by Sara Diamond. Marshall discusses her early life and move to B.C; her first introduction to trade unionism in 1924 when she met supporters of the Longshore strike at her waitressing job; protection and integration of immigrant workers; equal pensions for women; piecework; racism; wages and hours of work; policing the contracts.
• Suzie Fawcett Interview [Women's Labour History Project]

  An interview of Suzie Fawcett conducted by Sara Diamond. Fawcett discusses the difficulty of attaining training as a working class woman; waitress work at the Hotel Vancouver; working conditions in CNR owned hotels; the HREU’s attempt to organize the hotel in 1942; subsequent radicalization of staff; the Canadian Brotherhood of Railway and Transport and General Workers organizing CNR hotels; improvement in wages; Fawcett’s opposition to political unionism; raising two children while working full-time.
• United Bank Workers Report / Union Democracy? Try SORWUC!! / Bank Organizing / Leafletting Observed

  A report by Barb Ross from SORWUC Local #2 on a CIBC branch in Vancouver applying for unionization. An Article by Pat Barter from SORWUC Local #1. An Article by Mellody Rudd from AUCE Local #2. An Article by Anne Moody from AUCE Local #2. All written works expose the importance for women to union and the feminist weight of SORWUC.
• Be Labouring Women's Imagery: The Work of the Women's Labour History Project. A Personal / Public Narrative by Sara Diamond. Presented at a Winnipeg Conference.

  Essay manuscript for "Be Labouring Women's Imagery: The Work of the Women's Labour History Project - A Personal / Public Narrative" by Sara Diamond.
• Finding Aid - Sara Diamond fonds (SD)

  The Sara Diamond fonds spans her years in Vancouver as a member of the Revolutionary Workers League, Bread and Roses Collective, Amelia Productions, VIVO Media Arts Centre, and the Coalition for the Right To View. There are extensive materials related to Diamond’s Women’s Labour History Project, Code Zebra, curatorial projects, critical writing, educational materials, and independent video art. Diamond's fonds include photographic negatives (35mm) and prints, documents and publications (approx. 30m), audio recordings ( 200+ 1/4# and compact cassette), video recordings (500+ 3/4# Umatic, Betacam, Mini-DV), wearable art, and ephemera.
• A Bibliography of Women's Trade Union History in BC 1935 - 1950

  This is a bibliography of sources for research into the history of women in the B.C. trade union movement. It covers a fifteen year period: 1935-1950. These years were chosen because they represent a time of dramatic changes both in the position of women within production and of the ideology and strength of the organized labour movement in the province. The material in this bibliography is located in the Lower Mainland area. There is additional primary material in the Public Archives of British Columbia, located in Victoria. Permission is needed to use trade union archives. [From the Introduction]
• [HREU Local 28 Union Restaurant List]

  A list with the header, Union Restaurants, with the names of Vancouver restaurants that are members of the Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 in 1947.
• [Three waitresses pose outside The Empress Hotel, Victoria, Canada]

  Three waitresses pose outside the Canadian National Railway (CNR)-owned Empress Hotel In Victoria, Canada.
• [March by BC Women in support of unions, better wages and working conditions.]

  A protest march by B.C. women in support of unions and better wages and working conditions.