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Black Wednesday: Miners' Wives and the 1935 Corbin, B.C., Strike
In 1935, coal miners in Corbin went on strike. Their wives and daughters helped form pickets. On Wednesday, April 17, 1935, they faced off against the mine owner's security forces. The result became known as Black Wednesday.
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Miners' Wives: The Ladysmith Strike of 1913
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Miners' Wives: Standing Up Against The Company Bosses
Women have long played a strong and significant role in the labour movement. In Canada, wives, sisters, daughters, walked picket lines. In Mining Towns they often stood in front of their husbands on the line and paid the price. The next 2 articles tell some of their stories.
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Women in the Canadian Labour Movement
Women have always played a strong role in the Canadian Labour Movement. As wives they supported their husbands. As workers they took part in strikes. As union organizers, they helped workers organize
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The Match Girls of Hull, Quebec: Working Conditions, Unions and Strikes (Part 2)
Union Formation and the 1919 Strike The response to the conditions was the formation of a union the Trade Union Association Female Catholic, in 1918. The match girls (les allumettières), were the first women to lead a major strike in the area...
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The Match Girls of Hull Quebec: Working Conditions, Unions and Strikes (Part 1)
Match Girls working in Hull, Quebec, Canada, worked in abysmal conditions for long hours and very little pay. The Match Girls of Hull formed a union and in 1919 and 1924, they went on strike.
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Rosvall And Voutilainen Are Dead: The Death Of 2 Canadian Union Men - Part 2
On November 18, 1929, 2 men, Vilijo (Victor) Rosvall and John (Janne) Voutilainen of the Lumber Workers International Union went into the woods west of Port Arthur, Canada. They never came out alive.
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Rosvall And Voutilainen Are Dead: The Death Of 2 Canadian Union Men
On November 18, 1929, two men, Vilijo Rosvall and John Voutilainen of the Lumber Workers International Union went into the woods 20 miles west of Port Arthur, Canada. They never came out alive.
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Lighting Up With Lucifer - Working in a Match Factory
In the early 19th century, matches were made from white phosphorous. This toxic substance caused a disease called "Phossy Jaw." Striking match girls and the Berne Convention (1906) led to its demise.
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Cleaning Bulldog Folds: The Good, The Bad And The Smelly
English Bulldogs have a variety of skin folds. Some dogs have deep, heavily folded flaps of skin. Other bullies have shallow skin folds. They may form part of their loveable mug or sit hidden behind the tail. Yet, it does not matter how deep they are, all these crevasses require cleaning. Failure...
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Chinese Astrology: Determining Your Month, Day and Hour Animal
The Chinese Zodiac system provides you with a system of Heavenly Stems (one version refers to the Five Elements another to a more complicated configuration) and Earthly Branches.
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Divining Your Way - Methods of Divination
Divination is a term used to apply to virtually any form and means of discovering the events of the future. Over the centuries people have used many different ways to determine what the future holds.
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Faery Garden Plants
To create a Faery Garden is no more difficult than fashioning any other type of garden. With a Faery Garden, however, you must always keep in mind the Faeries you wish to attract.
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Bonnie M. Durtnall is a free-lance writer, researcher and published author living in Guelph, Ontario, Canada with her guy and two English bulldogs. She has been writing for what seems like, and probably is, decades. Her current interests include Faeries, Dragons, Bulldogs and labour history.These topics take her to a variety of events including Pagan and musical Festivals as well as talks to local historical, labour and interest groups.
Bonnie currently works for Julie-Ann Amos Consulting Company in England, although she is a researcher/writer for hire.
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