Labour History - Photographs

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

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

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

Article title, Victoria Daily Times regarding South Asians.

Group photo of mill workers [?]

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

Photo of South Asian immigrants at CPR Pier, Vancouver.

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

Photo of Kartar Singh riding a horse cart with wood.

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

Photo of a bunkhouse and cookhouse, Youbou, BC for the South Asian labourers.

Photo of Granthi [head priest] at the Ocean Falls Sikh Temple.

Group photo of Sikh lumber mill workers at the Hillcrest Lumber Company, Sahtlam, BC.

Group photo of Sikh men at the Second Avenue Gurdwara, Vancouver.

Group photo of sawmill workers in Youbou, BC.