Working People Built This Archive: The IWA Archive and Woodworker History

The organically expansive nature of the iwa Archive means that since the archive hosted the South Asian Labour History Project, fresh acquisitions have shone new light on the topic. Correspondence files from the 1940s - recently discovered by John Mountain in the basement of the United Steelworkers Local 1937 office in Duncan, BC - have revealed a previously unknown South Asian organizer operating in Port Alberni, who even published his own union newsletter in Punjabi.