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Miner's Memorial Day |
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 Federal NDP Leader Jack Layton at Ginger Goodwin's grave on Miner's Memorial Day |
Miner's Memorial DayAdapted from an article by Steve HarveyWorkers' Memorial Day started in Sudbury, Ontario to commemorate the lives of four miners killed in a rock burst on June 20, 1984. |
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In 1986, in the village of Cumberland, on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, the Cumberland and District Historical Society held its first Miners' Memorial Day. This day was conceived as a way to pay tribute to Cumberland's mining heritage which lasted from the turn of the century to the early 1960's. |
| The Miners' Memorial Day ceremonies take place in the Cumberland cemetery around the grave of the central figure in Cumberland's labour history - Albert "Ginger" Goodwin . The 2003 graveside ceremony featured both the National Leader of the New Democratic Party, Jack Layton, and the President of the British Columbia Federation of Labour, Jim Sinclair. |  Ginger Goodwin |
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Goodwin was a Socialist and union organizer who took part in the big strike in Cumberland in 1912. In later years, Goodwin stood as the Socialist Party candidate in Trail, BC in 1916 - espousing socialist and pacifist views in the middle of WWI. He also led a strike in at the Trail smelter in 1917, gaining, of course, the enmity of mine owners and government alike. Click here for more. |
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"The Internationale" - Solidarity Notes choir |
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Introduction - Mike Keelan, Canadian Union of Postal Workers |
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Jim Sinclair, President, BC Federation of Labour |
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Ben Issit, Student Activist / Historian |
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Monica Judd, President, Campbell River, Courtenay and District Labour Council |
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Ed Rosario, GCIU / San Fransisco Labour Council |
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Jack Layton, Federal Leader, New Democratic Party |
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Ben Swankey, Senior's Activist |
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