Items

• [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.
• 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.
• 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]
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• [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.
• Burrard Dry Dock pass

  Burrard Dry Dock pass for Mary Ansell, HREU representative. Original: printed card with signature.