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Author : Ginger Goodwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781895005431
Total Pages : 123 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)
Download or read book Ginger Goodwin Way written by Ginger Goodwin and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 123 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Susan Mayse
Publisher : Harbour Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1550178547
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Ginger written by Susan Mayse and published by Harbour Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-30 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of British Columbia's most colourful figures was Albert "Ginger" Goodwin, a slight young English immigrant who arrived on Vancouver Island in 1910 to join hundreds of others slaving in the hellholes of the Cumberland mines. What he saw there made him one of the most effective labour leaders the province has ever seen, and led to an untimely and controversial end. Susan Mayse combines the skills of novelist (Merlin's Web) and historian in this gripping biography of one of BC's most controversial labour figures, a hero among Vancouver Island miners and a dangerous subversive in the eyes of the authorities.
Author : Mayse Susan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781550178913
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (789 download)
Download or read book Ginger written by Mayse Susan and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-14 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of British Columbia's most colourful figures was Albert "Ginger" Goodwin, a slight young English immigrant who arrived on Vancouver Island in 1910 to join hundreds of others slaving in the hellholes of the Cumberland mines. What he saw there made him one of the most effective labour leaders the province has ever seen, and led to an untimely and controversial end. Susan Mayse combines the skills of novelist (Merlin's Web) and historian in this gripping biography of one of BC's most controversial labour figures, a hero among Vancouver Island miners and a dangerous subversive in the eyes of the authorities.
Author : Stephen Ruttan
Publisher : TouchWood Editions
ISBN 13 : 1771510730
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (715 download)
Download or read book Vancouver Island Scoundrels, Eccentrics and Originals written by Stephen Ruttan and published by TouchWood Editions. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Found on the history shelves of the Greater Victoria Public Library, these twenty true stories are brought to life by Stephen Ruttan. They draw a picture of the life of a city with a recent past that's both unconventional and colourful. From Miss Wilson and her famous parrot, Louis, to Jimmy Chicken Island, named after a man who acquired his surname from his habit of stealing chickens, to the Pig War, when Britain and the United States nearly came to blows over the San Juan Islands, to the rise and fall of Francis Rattenbury, one of Victoria’s best-known architects, these stories reveal a lively history of a West Coast capital city. Archival illustrations, newspaper clippings, and modern photos help make Vancouver Island Scoundrels, Eccentrics and Originals a delightful and illluminating read.
Author : Peter Campbell
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773567836
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (735 download)
Download or read book Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way written by Peter Campbell and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on four individuals, Canadian Marxists and the Search for a Third Way describes the lives and ideas of Ernest Winch, Bill Pritchard, Bob Russell, and Arthur Mould and examines their efforts to put their ideas into practice. Campbell begins by looking at their childhoods in Great Britain, particularly their religious upbringing. He considers their family life, their attitudes toward women and ethnic minorities, what they were reading, and what effect that reading had on their theory and practice. He describes their lives as labor leaders and advocates of socialism, revealing how tenaciously, in an increasingly hierarchical, bureaucratized, and state-driven capitalist society, they held to the idea that socialism must be created by the working class itself. This is a unique look at four Canadian Marxists and their struggle to create an educated, disciplined, democratic, mass-based movement for revolutionary change.
Author : Charlie Hodge
Publisher : FriesenPress
ISBN 13 : 1039100449
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Lost Souls of Lakewood written by Charlie Hodge and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: GHOSTS HAUNT LAKEWOOD LANDS AND BLAYLOCK’S MANSION. WHO ARE THEY? WHY ARE THEY THERE? Straight out of a fairy tale or thriller movie, Blaylock's Mansion leaps into stunning view as one traverses a gentle curve in the road. Surrounded by spellbinding gardens and majestic trees, the 16,000-square-foot Tudor-Revival style architecture deep in the harsh, spectacular mountains of southeastern British Columbia captures the eye and the imagination. Selwyn G. Blaylock learned all about harsh and spectacular things. In 1899 the young metallurgist graduated from Quebec's McGill University and ventured to Trail, B.C. During the next three decades his meteoric rise to President of Consolidated Mining and Smelting (later known as Cominco) had tremendous impact around the world. Yet Blaylock was to pay a price in several ways. His life carried the great weight of expectation and demand, blended with responsibility and accountability. Some might suggest guilt. The controversial death of union organizer Ginger Goodwin remains linked to Blaylock, as does his role in ‘the bomb’ dropped on Japan. Many believed Selwyn to be a haunted man. Blaylock was not the only unique, larger-than-real-life character to live in the mansion or on the large property known as Lakewood. A number of fascinating characters also resided there before and after him. Some of them never left. From First Nation hunters, Hudson Bay Company workers, two mayors, freemasons, and a Civil War hero to a smooth-talking, high-rolling con man from California, veteran Canadian writer Charlie Hodge brings to life a variety of real and fictional characters and their common denominator in Lost Souls of Lakewood - The History and Mystery of Blaylock’s Mansion It features several spellbinding tales within the main story, each one worthy of its own novel. Lost Souls of Lakewood is a must read for anyone with an interest in history, mystery or ghosts.
Author : Vancouver Island Trails Information Society
Publisher : Orca Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0969766785
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (697 download)
Download or read book Hiking Trails 3 written by Vancouver Island Trails Information Society and published by Orca Book Publishers. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive guide to the trails in northern Vancouver Island British Columbia
Author : John Wilson
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459727304
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Desperate Glory written by John Wilson and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the story and issues of the First World War in a clear, concise and objective manner, accompanied on every page by photographs, original sketches, or maps.
Author : Desmond Morton
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 9780774811088
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)
Download or read book Fight Or Pay written by Desmond Morton and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One Canadian in eight volunteered to fight between 1914 and 1918 and more than half of them were enlisted. Soldiers left their families behind to the tender mercy of a tight-fisted government and the Canadian Patriotic Fund, a national charity dominated by its wealthy donors. In time, the soldiers were remembered as the sacrificial heroes who won Canada a respected place in the world. The women who paid in loneliness and poverty were as easily forgotten as their letters, soaked in blood and Flanders mud. Fight or Pay tells the story of what happened to the soldiers' families and their quiet contributions to a fairer deal for Canadians in peace and war.
Author : Ron Verzuh
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1487541147
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (875 download)
Download or read book Smelter Wars written by Ron Verzuh and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1938, the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) sent communist union organizer Arthur "Slim" Evans to the smelter city of Trail, British Columbia, to establish Local 480 of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Six years later the local was recognized as the legal representative of more than 5,000 workers at a smelter owned by the powerful Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company of Canada. But the union’s fight for survival had only just begun. Smelter Wars unfolds that historic struggle, offering glimpses into the political, social, and cultural life of the semi-rural, single-industry community. Hindered by economic depression, two World Wars, and Cold War intolerance, Local 480 faced fierce corporate, media, and religious opposition at home. Ron Verzuh draws upon archival and periodical sources, including the mainstream and labour press, secret police records, and oral histories, to explore the CIO’s complicated legacy in Trail as it battled a wide range of antagonists: a powerful employer, a company union, local conservative citizens, and Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) leadership. More than the history of a union, Smelter Wars is a cultural study of a community shaped by the dominance of a world-leading industrial juggernaut set on keeping the union drive at bay.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 898 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)
Download or read book LLT written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Laura Ellyn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781771132268
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (322 download)
Download or read book Ginger Goodwin written by Laura Ellyn and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This accessible and thoughtful graphic history explores legendary labour activist Albert Goodwin's life, work, and death in the mining communities of Cumberland and Trail, British Columbia.
Author : Karen Messing
Publisher : Between the Lines
ISBN 13 : 1771131489
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (711 download)
Download or read book Pain and Prejudice written by Karen Messing and published by Between the Lines. This book was released on 2014-09-02 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1978, when workers at a nearby phosphate refinery learned that the ore they processed was contaminated with radioactive dust, Karen Messing, then a new professor of molecular genetics, was called in to help. Unsure of what to do with her discovery that exposure to the radiation was harming the workers and their families, Messing contacted senior colleagues but they wouldn’t help. Neither the refinery company nor the scientific community was interested in the scary results of her chromosome studies. Over the next decades Messing encountered many more cases of workers around the world, factory workers, cleaners, checkout clerks, bank tellers, food servers, nurses, teachers, suffering and in pain without any help from the very scientists and occupational health experts whose work was supposed to make their lives easier. Arguing that rules for scientific practice can make it hard to see what really makes workers sick, in Pain and Prejudice Messing tells the story of how she went from looking at test tubes to listening to workers.
Author : Dieter K. Buse
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459725980
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (597 download)
Download or read book Hard Lessons written by Dieter K. Buse and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1995-05-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book emerges from the papers, panels, and discussion of the conference "Where the Past Meets the Future - the Place of Alternative Unions in the Canadian Labour Movement," held to commemorate the first one hundred years of the history of the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers Union. The union, which began in 1893 as the Western Federation of Miners and grew to a membership of over one hundred thousand in fifty locals throughout Canada during the 1950s, had shrunk to a single local of sixteen hundred members in Sudbury, Ontario, by the 1990s. This book brings together the voices of contemporary labour leaders, activists, old timers, and academics.
Author : Ravi Malhotra
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774835265
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book Disabling Barriers written by Ravi Malhotra and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2017-10-15 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disabling Barriers analyzes issues relating to disability at different moments in Canadian and American history. In this volume, legal scholars, historians, and disability-rights activists demonstrate that disabled people can change their social status by transforming the political and legal discourse surrounding disablement. Employing tools from the fields of law and history, this original contribution explores how disabled people have been portrayed and treated in a variety of contexts, including within the labour market, the workers’ compensation system, the immigration process, and the legal system (both as litigants and as lawyers). It deepens our knowledge of the role of people with disabilities within social movements in disability history. The contributors encourage us to rethink our understanding of both the systemic barriers disabled people face and the capacity of disabled people to effect positive societal change.
Author : Benjamin Isitt
Publisher : UBC Press
ISBN 13 : 0774818034
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (748 download)
Download or read book From Victoria to Vladivostok written by Benjamin Isitt and published by UBC Press. This book was released on 2010-05-01 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking book brings to life a forgotten chapter in the history of Canada and Russia – the journey of 4,200 Canadian soldiers from Victoria to Vladivostok in 1918 to help defeat Bolshevism. Combining military and labour history with the social history of BC, Quebec, and Russia, Benjamin Isitt examines how the Siberian Expedition exacerbated tensions within Canadian society at a time when a radicalized working class, many French-Canadians, and even the soldiers themselves objected to a military adventure designed to counter the Russian Revolution. The result is a highly readable and provocative work that challenges public memory of the First World War while illuminating tensions – both in Canada and worldwide – that shaped the course of twentieth-century history.
Author : Reg Whitaker
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442662387
Total Pages : 721 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (426 download)
Download or read book Secret Service written by Reg Whitaker and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Secret Service provides the first comprehensive history of political policing in Canada – from its beginnings in the mid-nineteenth century, through two world wars and the Cold War to the more recent 'war on terror.' This book reveals the extent, focus, and politics of government-sponsored surveillance and intelligence-gathering operations. Drawing on previously classified government records, the authors reveal that for over 150 years, Canada has run spy operations largely hidden from public or parliamentary scrutiny – complete with undercover agents, secret sources, agent provocateurs, coded communications, elaborate files, and all the usual apparatus of deception and betrayal so familiar to fans of spy fiction. As they argue, what makes Canada unique among Western countries is its insistent focus of its surveillance inwards, and usually against Canadian citizens. Secret Service highlights the many tensions that arise when undercover police and their covert methods are deployed too freely in a liberal democratic society. It will prove invaluable to readers attuned to contemporary debates about policing, national security, and civil rights in a post-9/11 world.
