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Vancouver Centennial Labour History Project fonds
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Vancouver Centennial Labour History Project fonds

  • RBSC-ARC-1575
  • Fonds
  • [1938]-1989

The fonds consists of records created or received by the committees and individuals working for the Labour History Project under the Centennial Commission and Centennial Labour Committee. Fonds includes minutes, agendas, correspondence, publications, posters and other advertisements for events and meetings, reports, newspaper clippings, typescripts and manuscripts, including a graduate thesis on union history. All type- and manuscripts are related to the history of various unions in Canada and British Columbia.
The fonds is divided between two series: Operational Records, and Manuscripts.

Vancouver Centennial Commission. Vancouver Centennial Labour History Project

Operational Records

Series consists of the operational records of the Centennial Labour Committee and Centennial Commission. Contents include correspondence to and from various committee and commission members including Bill Darnell and Pam Tranfield, mailing lists, notebooks, financial records, project planning files, working papers, minutes, memoranda, agendas, pamphlets, posters, scripts of talks and guided tours, and other publicity materials.

Manuscripts

Series consists of manuscripts by various authors about labour history in BC and Canada. Contents include books commissioned or created by various BC labour union locals, a graduate thesis by Patricia Gwen Atherton, a bibliography, newsletters, pamphlets, clippings, and calendars. Manuscript unions and locals include the United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners, the Pacific Reforestation Workers Association, the International Union of Mine, Mill, and Smelter Workers, the BC Government Employees Union, and the Marine Workers and Boilermakers Industrial Union (Local No. 1), among others.

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