Labour History - Photographs

Group photo of Sikh men employed at a lumber mill in Port Moody, BC.

Group photo of workers at Carlson mill, Nakusp, BC.

Statistical data from the Sixth Census of Canada, 1921. Item depicts 20 men living in a "Lodging House owned by the Lumber Company for Hindoo crew" at the Columbia River Lumber Company in Golden, BC. The 12-year-old son of one of the workers is identified as a student. The earliest arrived in Canada in 1906. more

Group photo of Sikh labourers at a wharf, Tod Inlet.

Photo of living and cooking quarters at Tod Inlet, which were racially segregated and crude. Cardboard was used for insulation and flour sacks as blankets. The 1911 Census recorded 63 men living in the "Hindu Camp" and 239 in the "Chinese Camp". more

Signatures of shareholders of Guru Nanak Mining and Trust Company.

Photo of Columbia River Lumber lumber mill in Golden, BC, 1910-1920.

Group photo of mill workers [?]

Fraser Wilson illustration, Vancouver Sun, February 6, 1943, 35.

Article title, Victoria Daily Times regarding South Asians.

The Vancouver Gurdwara on 2nd Avenue was located close to the sawmills that lined False Creek.

Newspaper clipping titled, A task for the union, published in The B. C. Lumber Worker.

Map of Canadian Western Lumber Co. Ltd. and Fraser Mills Sash, Door and Shingle Co. Ltd. and a photograph of Mewa Singh's funeral procession in 1915. more

Map of sawmills & shingle mills, and the 2nd Avenue Gurdwara at False Creek, Vancouver, BC.

Group photo of Sikh men standing in front of the Hillcrest Sikh Temple.