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Prominent Women in Canada's Labour Movement: Katie McVicar
In 1880 the Knights of Labor arrived in Canada to organize workers of all types. In Hamilton, Ontario, Katie McVicar, a shoeworker, lobbied to form Canada's first all-female KoL Assembly - 3040 in 1883. McVicar, herself became leader of a subdivision of this group Excelsior Assembly 3179.
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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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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.