Labour Activism History: Photographs

Photo of the audience at an IWA Local 1-80 meeting in Duncan, BC, 1960s. From File "Local 1-80 Members, Staff, Officers, Events". more

View from a table of the audience at an IWA Local 1-80 meeting in Duncan, BC, 1960s. From File "Local 1-80 Members, Staff, Officers, Events". more

Group photo of the 1950 Lady of the Lake, Gurdev Hari, and her 3 attendants in Lake Cowichan, B.C. They are posed standing in the grass in front of a parked car. Each young woman is wearing a white gown with a corsage pinned on their right shoulder. The pageant winner also has her regalia - a paper crown, a scepter and a sash reading "Lady of the Lake". more

Sixty-one lumber mill workers from the Night Shift at Industrial Timber Mills Ltd. pose for a photograph at the log deck of a Youbou, B.C. sawmill. They are arranged in three rows, with the first row being seated on a pile of lumber, the second row standing behind them, and the third row further behind standing on milling equipment and taller piles of lumber. On the lefthand side of the image,… more

Twelve mill workers pose for a photo at the Fanny Bay Shingle Mill on Vancouver Island. Five of the men are seated on stacked bundles of shingles, while the other seven sit behind them on a raised wooden deck. Tall piles of lumber and bundled shingles surround them.

Four men pose for a photo in a parking lot in an industrial area. Three of them are IWA members. The leftmost man is local politician, likely NDP member Mike Harcourt. He is wearing a suit with a campaign pin on the lapel. They are all standing in front of a parked car with a campaign poster for Legislator Jan Pullinger over its driverside window. Warehouses and large piles of lumber can be seen… more

CIPA Lumber Co. dropsorter Boota Rai, wearing a hardhat and work gloves, turns away from his workstation in the sawmill to pose for a photo. Before him is a long, flat track covered in sawdust and various squared boards. Loose boards and tangled electrical cables can be seen at his feet. From File "CIPA Sawmill, Nanaimo". CIPA Lumber Co. Ltd. is a subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation. The… more

CIPA Lumber Co. sawyer Sarwan Sujan turns away from his workstation at CIPA's Nanaimo Sawmill to pose for a photo. Before him is a console with a large radial scale and several switches, knobs and buttons. Behind the console, mill machinery is visible through a glass pane. From File "CIPA Sawmill, Nanaimo". CIPA Lumber Co. Ltd. is a subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation. more

CIPA Lumber Co. lumber grader Darshan Athwal poses for a photo in front of various boards and milling equipment at CIPA's Nanaimo sawmill. Behind him, a plywood board is scrawled with scribbles, signatures, tally marks, and a drawing of a bird. From File "CIPA Sawmill, Nanaimo". CIPA Lumber Co. Ltd. is a subsidiary of ITOCHU Corporation. more

Three men in the middle of a discussion stand in a conference room. In the foreground, a fourth man sits facing away from the camera. Behind the men is a long table where at least one other man is sitting. There are plastic cups and paper documents on the table. Two vintage posters are pinned to the wall in the background, mostly obscured by the standing men. This photo's caption identifies… more

Six IWA members in mid-discussion sit at a long table in a conference room. The table is littered with books, paper documents, and styrofoam cups. In the background, six[?] more people can be seen from the neck-down, standing. This photo's caption identifies one of these IWA members as Dan Clements. From File "I.W.A. Local 1-80 Officers and Members". more

Eight IWA Delegates sit at a long table in a conference room while a ninth stands. The table is littered with items including paper documents, cups, and a pair of glasses. From File "Unknown Region 1 Convention". more

Medium close-up of the audience at an IWA Local 1-80 meeting in Duncan, BC, 1960s. From File "Local 1-80 Members, Staff, Officers, Events". more

A headshot portrait of a South Asian IWA chairman. From File "Plant and Camp Chairmen". more

A wide shot of five or six lumber mill workers standing on a deck in a Mayo Lumber Company sawmill. Among them are the spotter Ranjit Karod and the bull saw operator Chuck Williams. From File "Mayo Lumber". more