Items

• The Carter's Family Tree

  This item shows Winston Carter's genealogy built from information found in vital records and newspaper clippings.
• 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.
• 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.
• SORWUC- Service, Office and Retail Workers Union Canada

  The Service, Office and Retail Workers Union of Canada (SORWUC) was an independent union, established in 1972 by a Founding Convention of 24 women, with the intention of representing and organizing occupations that were not included in the traditional trade unions of the time. The union developed out of the Working Women’s Association, an organization that sought to provide support to the adversities facing working women, such as obtaining equal pay, day care provision, and job security. SORWUC was an unaffiliated, feminist, member-controlled union, and their constitution stated their aims as being: to bargain collectively on behalf of members; to improve working conditions; and to help provide job security. By 1976, SORWUC had organized four day care centres, five social service units, one legal office, one student office, and a tuxedo rental store. SORWUC also began organizing bank workers in 1975 and eventually established a specific chapter for the workers in the finance industry, Local 2, United Bank Workers, and later, Local 4, Bank and Finance Workers. The union was financially supported by its members and by donations from other unions and organizations, and ran its offices on a volunteer basis. [https://guides.library.ubc.ca/labourhistoryarchives/sorwuc]
• Shoppers Drug Mart/Don't Shop at Shoppers!!

  An article (creator withheld their name) in Priorities, Vol 1 Number 06, June 1973. It narrates the history of Shoppers strike in 1972-3.
• SFU Archives
• Sara Diamond

  Dr. Sara Diamond, Order of Canada, and Ontario is the Principal Investigator of the SSHRC funded Crossing Fonds Partnership Development project and Symposium. She holds degrees in History and Communications, Media and Performance, and Computer Science. She is OCAD University Research Chair and President Emerita. For 15 years Diamond led OCAD University to retain and expand its traditional strengths in art and design while leading its university transformation to become a leader in graduate education, research, digital media, with a deep commitment to Indigenous reconciliation, equity, diversity and inclusion. She is a Senior Fellow at Massey College and Adjunct Professor of Engineering, University of Toronto; and Adjunct Professor in SFU’s SIAT program, and holds an Honorary Doctorate from SFU. Diamond undertakes funded research in cultural analytics, media, and social histories, is co-Principal Investigator of the iCity2.0 project and a member of the Steering Committee of Abundant Intelligences: Expanding Artificial Intelligence through Indigenous Knowledge Systems.
• Researcher notes: Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 activities

  Notes by researcher Sara Diamond from her late 1970s-early 1980s Women's Labour History Project. Diamond's notes are written in cursive and assembled in three parts. Does not always follow chronological order. 1930s-1940s
• Researcher Notes on various Labour History sources. 1930s. 1940s.

  Sara Diamond's research notes from various sources. Good resource for communism and unions.
• 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.
• 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.
• Public Statement HREU

  A call to action in response to the expulsion of current female leadership from the HREU and likely predicated on their Communist affiliation. The front page is a Public statement released by the Hotel Restaurant Employees Union Local 28 from the Executive Board Emily Watts, May Leniczek, Roy Moore. Back page proposes the BC Federation of Hotel, Restaurant and Allied Service Workers. A call to action in response to the expulsion of current female leadership from the HREU and likely predicated on their Communist affiliation.
• Protest at Provincial Courthouse plaza

  Vancouver protest. Image shows protesters holding Native Women Rights Now signs.
• 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.
• Priorities, August 1977: Letters re SORWUC Local 2

  A Letter by Tor (from Whitehorse) and a Letter by Elizabeth Godley (SORWUC's National Secretary) in Priorities Vol 5 Numer 10, October 1977. While the first letter is enthusiastic and projects hope from a waitress in Yukon, the second article works as a solidarity piece to the United Bank Workers (UBW).
• Outstanding and fiery unionist supported our amalgamation

  A reprint of an article by unionist William "Bill" Stewart on the challenges of organizing, published in commemoration of the amalgamation of Hotel, Restaurant and Employees Union Locals 676 an 28.
• 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.
• Notes on "Indigenous Women, Work and History 1940-1980"

  Sara Diamond's notes on "Indigenous Women, Work and History 1940-1980" by Mary Jane Logan McCallum
• Notes on "Indians at Work in BC"

  Notes by Sara Diamond on "Indians [First Nations] at Work in BC" by Rolf Knight.
• NFB Guest Program and Youth Program at RAJA
• 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.
• N.D.P. Women's Committee
• Muckamuck goes cowboy in order to beat strike (Oct 11, 1978)

  In midst of SORWUC strike action, Muckamuck owners Jane Erikson and Doug Christmas hold a private party at the Muckamuck restaurant "hiring mostly non-native workers, clad in cowboy outfits, and of hanging cowshides on the walls."
• 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.
• May Martin interview

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