Items

• Fit To Be Tied

  Fit To Be Tied documents the lives of hard-working, spirited women during the Depression era. Drawing upon oral history, archival footage, and a poetic layering of photographs, film clips, and dramatic re-enactment, the video covers such issues as womens poverty, labour activism, reproduction, feminism, and the rise of fascism in the 1930s.
• [Strikebreakers page 2 of 2]

  Dispatch to members that on May 14, 1980 Muckamuck strikebreakers withdrew their latest application to decertify the union. The union explains the restaurants action and how SORWUC is responding.
• [Petrobenko Poem]

  "Days and Nights on the Picket Line", a poem by Helen Petrobenko, January 1978. Published in SORWUC National Newsletter Vol 1 No 1 May 1978.
• [Right to Collective Bargaining]

  A flyer given an update on the status of the Muckamuck strike, why strikes are necessary, why not to patronize the Muckamuck.
• [Delegates for 1977 National Convention]

  SORWUC invitation to a Christmas Party followed by a list of delegates to the 1977 National Convetion.
• Vancouver housing survey : notes on area bounded by Cordova, Main, Prior and Gore Streets

  Report of Medical Health Officer and Building Inspector re: living conditions in Hogan's Alley.
• Vie's Steak House, 209 Union [Street] with Ellen Clark
• Hogan’s Alley

  This video documents the previously unrecorded history of Vancouver s Black community, specifically Hogan s Alley, between 1930 and the late 1960s. The tape examines the lives of three Black women. Thelma Gibson is an African-Caribbean dance teacher who recalls the era with nostalgia. Pearl Brown is a well known local jazz singer who speaks about working in the chicken houses flanking Hogan s Alley. Leah Curtis is a lesbian in her mid-forties, whose history as an abused child is interconnected with her experience as a child worker in the gambling houses of Papa White. The videotape investigates the identities of these women, as well as the identities of a disappeared community.
• [Barbara Howard]
• Prize [boxing] fighters, taken for J. Allen, W. Townsend, Carter, Holliday, Hawk, Young

  Item is a photograph showing boxers (L-R): William (Billy) Townsend, Leslie Carter, Harvey Holliday, Johnny Hawks, and Billy Young.
• [Joe (Seraphim) Fortes in front of the boulder on the beach at English Bay]
• English Bay [Joe Fortes]
• Kathleen De Lapene, Thelma Gibson and Mildred Franklin in Showboat
• Cast member of Showboat
• Opening Doors in Vancouver's East End : Strathcona

  In 1979, two writers, Daphne Marlatt and Carole Itter, decided to gather and share 50 spoken stories from the Strathcona community. They interviewed a handful of Black People, such as Nora Hendrix, Rosa Pryor, Austin Phillips, and Dorothy Nealy. They published these stories in 1979 as a special edition of the Sound Heritage journal.
• Barbara Stewart interview

  Audio and transcript of Sara Diamond's interview with Barbara Stewart.
• May Martin interview

  Audio and transcript of Sara Diamond's interview with May Martin.
• Emily Nuttall interview

  Audio and transcript of Sara Diamond's interview with Emily Nutall.
• IMAGeNATION 2002 postcard

  Indigenous Media Arts Group promotional postcard. IMAG and APTN-Aboriginal Peoples Television Network (Ch.71) present IMAGeNATION Aboriginal Film & Video Festival, November 7-10, 2002, Vancouver, Canada.
• IMAGeNation 2004 postcard

  Indigenous Media Arts Group promotional postcard advertising the IMAGeNation 6th annual Aboriginal Film and Video Festival, February 26-29, 2002.
• Technological Medicine Wheel: Website Launch

  Handbill advertising the website launch and party of Cease Wyss' Technological Medicine Wheel. Part of IMAGeNation Aboriginal Film and Video Festival. Event held at grunt gallery November 9, 2022. Presented by Video In.
• Case Study 1: Thematic Guide (In progress)

  The Thematic Guide for Case Study 1 records core data on our research resources for future analysis and as a guide for other researchers working on similar themes.
• Muckamuck 'failed to bargain in good faith' (Apr 25, 1981)

  The B.C. Labor Relations Board has found management of the Muckamuck restaurant guilty of failing to bargain in good faith, noting that they "no intention to enter into a collective agreement with SORWUC" and are encourageing and assisting the staff strikebreakers.
• Restaurant picket guilty of assauting manager (Mar 21, 1980)

  A picket-line confrontation between a SORWUC picketer and Sussy Selbst,the manager of the Muckamuck restaurant, led to a charge of common assault against Patricia Barter. Charges against Donald Fodor and Helen Potrebenko were dropped.
• Quebec 'strikebreakers' draw action from B.C. Fed (Feb 20, 1980)

  A news article that reported complains from the Hotel, Restaurant and Culinary Employees + Bartenders Union Local 40 regarding the Cannery restuarant's employment of professional strikebreakers. Published on February 20, 1980.