56.4 | Winter 2023 British Columbia HistoryDescriptionThe Winter 2023 edition of British Columbia History is guest-edited by Ron Verzuh, and presents history from the workplace trenches. Verzuh also contributed "Challenging the Male Breadwinner Tradition: Making history in the workplace."
Stories include:
- "The Indigenous Miners of British Columbia's First Coal Fields," by John Lutz;
- "Eight Hours Underground," by Peter Smith;
- "Tunnelling for Workplace Justice: How foreign workers won their rights at SkyTrain's Canada Line," by Joe Barrett;
- "Darshan Singh Sangha: 'Forever Canadian' union organizer," by Donna Sacuta;
- "Women on both sides of the Great Vancouver Island Coal Miners' Strike, 1912-14," by Aimee Greenaway;
- "Rebel Union Local 7292 in the Elk Valley," by Tom Langford," and "The CKLG Strike of 1975: A memorable moment in Canadian radio and labour history," by Leslie Kenny;
- "Thelma Emblem, Whistle Punk," by Aimee Greenaway;
- "Discovering Ginger Goodwin," by Wayne Norton; and
- "Singing and Solidarity," by Jon Bartlett and Rika Ruebsaat.
Plus we have regular columns from Aimee Greenaway, Mark Forsythe, and Terry Arnett. All packed into 52 pages!
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