Interview with Kate Braid

Date
2016-11-08
Interviewer: Garden, Bailey
Interviewer: Bauder, Ken
Interviewee: Braid, Kate
Creator: BC Labour Heritage Centre
Description

Kate Braid is a carpenter and a poet, writing about her experiences as a female working in the male-dominated construction trades. She was born in Calgary, AB and was elected to the executive of the BC Regional Council of Carpenters.

Physical description
1 online resource (1 video file (1:40:44))
Location
Kate's home
Keywords
Al King
BC Institute of Technology [BCIT]
BC Regional Council of Carpenters
BC Federation of Labour [BC Fed]
Carpenter's Union
Communist Party
Continuing Education [SFU]
Construction industry
Creative writing
Feminism
International Women's Day [IWD]
Labour arts and culture
Labour education
Labour history
Labour school
Labour studies [faculty]
Malaspina University-College [VIU]
May Works [festival]
Oral history
Poetry
Politics
Sexual harassment
Simon Fraser University [SFU]
University of British Columbia [UBC]
Vancouver
Vancouver Island
Vancouver Industrial Writers Union
Women's Committee [BC Fed]
Women in labour
Women's rights
Women in trades
Women's movement
Genre
Interviews
Oral histories
Video recordings
Type of resource
Moving Image
Language
English
Part of
BC Labour Heritage Centre Oral History Collection
Identifier
BCLHC-008
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BC Labour Heritage Centre