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• Making and defending intimate spaces: White waitresses policed in Vancouver's Chinatown cafes.

  Sia's thesis looks at the campaign by the Mayor and VPD against white waitresses working at Chinese-owned cafes in Chinatown that eventually led to protests by the waitresses, claims of immorality, cancelled business and an eventual settlement that saw the women fired from their jobs during the depression. licences MA Thesis, UBC 2010 fall. Rosanne Sia.
• Letters from the Cabinet's Wide Representation; Report from the NDP Women's Policy Conference

  A short letter (no author) and an article as report form by Melodie Corrigall and Shelly Dillon in Priorities Vol 1 Numer 09, September 1973. The letter lists the vast groups which the members are from. In Corrigall's part of the report, they present Jackie Ainsworth of WWA spoke about the attempted strike at Denny's––first strike of waitresses in 30 years.
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• Labor Council Nominations: Colored Man Declares War on Trades Movement

  Newspaper arcticle includes segment about Hugh T. Simmons, a Black, British Subject from Jamaica, living in Port Alberni, and resident of the province for 22 years. Simmons stated he would enter politics due to being denied employed as a result of the racism of longshoremen and mill workers in Alberni. The Trades and Labor Council Secretary wrote in reply that the "international labor organization was founded on the principles of equality, with no recognition of creed or color." and that the labor in question were not affiliated with organized labor so the council could not act.
• Keeping the Home Fires Burning

  Combining original Canadian wartime propaganda, interviews with women workers, original footage and photographs, musical soundtracks and dramatization, KEEPING THE HOME FIRES BURNING explores the unique experience of Canada s working women during World War Two. Produced 1988. Duration: 49:00
• Kathleen De Lapene, Thelma Gibson and Mildred Franklin in Showboat
• Jones Herbert and Frances wedding 1940s

  Collector/curator’s description reads: “1940s, Vancouver. Heatley wedding. Left to right: unidentified; Herman Q Jones; Frances (nee Carter) Jones; Alice (Carter) Hackley; and Herbert Winston Carter. Herbert was born in either Mississippi or Oklahoma and came to Canada as part of the Black migration to Alberta. He worked for a time as porter and served in WWII. He passed away in 1952. Frances was born in Victoria. Her parents were also born in Victoria. She worked for a time as a waitress at Vie's chicken and steak house in Hogan's Alley. Frances died in 1957.”
• Jones - Herbert and Frances - wedding - 1940s

  Collector/curator’s description reads: “1940s, Vancouver. Heatley wedding. Left to right: unidentified; Herman Q Jones; Frances (nee Carter) Jones; Alice (Carter) Hackley; and Herbert Winston Carter. Herbert was born in either Mississippi or Oklahoma and came to Canada as part of the Black migration to Alberta. He worked for a time as porter and served in WWII. He passed away in 1952. Frances was born in Victoria. Her parents were also born in Victoria. She worked for a time as a waitress at Vie's chicken and steak house in Hogan's Alley. Frances died in 1957.”
• Jean Sheils - The Depression

  Contextual material on the 1930s. In this interview, Jean Sheils discusses disillusionment amongst women during the Great Depression, mother and father’s history with unionism, and their eviction during the Great Depression. She also discusses the single unemployed, the difference in labour struggles from the 1930s to the 1980s, and the On to Ottawa trek. Jean Stewart Evans (1927-1995) was born in Vancouver, BC, second child of Ethel, and well-known labour rights organizer, Arthur “Slim” Evans. She recalls a childhood home always open to organizers and labourers in need, and impacted by her father’s arrests and short-term imprisonments.
• Jackie Ainsworth January 28, 2017 Interview Transcript.

  Jackie Ainsworth January 28, 2017 Interview Transcript. Includes her experiences with the Vancouver Women's Caucus and SORWUC.
• It's Not Your Imagination

  This work examines the problem of sexual harassment of women in the workforce. Five women discuss their experiences of sexual harassment on the job, and two union representatives give their definitions of sexual harassment and examine the obligation of unions to protect their members from this form of discrimination. [Description provided by Women in Focus]
• International Beverage Dispenser's Union
• Information Day on Women and Work

  A flyer of a full-day event timeline and information of a women's labor union event called "Information Day on Women and Work".
• Indigenous Media Arts Group Organizational Chart
• IMAGeNation 2004 postcard

  Indigenous Media Arts Group promotional postcard advertising the IMAGeNation 6th annual Aboriginal Film and Video Festival, February 26-29, 2002.
• 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.
• Illustrated Notes Understanding Black History Labor in BC

  This file includes illustrated notes by Maira C. Castro regarding Black Labor in BC. The illustrated notes include the sources of their information.
• Illustrated Notes Narrative Carter's Family

  This file includes illustrated notes by Maira C. Castro regarding the Carter Family and a narrative proposal to provide a big picture of this family in Vancouver.
• Hotel and Restaurant Employees Union Local 28. May Day c.1940s.

  A photo of women of H.R.E.U Local 28 on May Day c.1940s. Includes Marion Sarich and Emily Nuttall.
• Hotel and Restaurant Employee's Union Local 28

  The Hotel Industry was one of the first industries unionized in B.C., the first charter being granted in 1900 to the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union Local No. 28. Gradually the smaller locals began merging until 1974, when the Beverage Dispensers' Union, Local No. 676, and the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' Union, Local No. 28, merged to become the Hotel and Restaurant Employees' and Bartenders' Union, local No. 16. The final province-wide merger occurred in 1976 with the creation of the Hotel, Restaurant, and Culinary Employees' and Bartenders' Union, having 12,000 unionized employees under Local 40. [Description from the UBC RBSC Hotel, Restaurant and Culinary Employees' and Bartenders' Union, Local 40 fonds]
• 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.
• Historical discrimination against Chinese people in Vancouver

  A report presented to Vancouver City Council by the General Manager of Community Services on Oct 20, 2017. The report outlines the evidence of historical discrimination against Chinese people in Vancouver.
• Herbert Winston Carter Registration of Marriage

  This file is Herbert Winston Carter's marriage registration, shedding light on his age and occupation at the time of this event.
• Herbert Winston Carter Registration of Death

  This file is Herbert Winston Carter's death registration, shedding light on his age, occupation, and residency, as well as the name of one of his daughters and her residency.
• Herbert Winston Carter Registration of Birth

  This file is Herbert Winston Carter's birth certificate, shedding light on his date of birth, as well as his father's and mother's names, residency, and occupations.