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Title: Harry Rankin autographing party - Co-op [Bookstore]
Description: Photograph shows Harry Rankin signing a copy of his new book Rankin's Law at book launch.
Date: 1975-11-21

Title: Harry Rankin autographing party - Co-op [Bookstore]
Description: Photograph shows Harry Rankin signing a copy of his new book Rankin's Law at book launch.
Date: 1975-11-21

Title: Building trades pickets on Pennyfarthing - Harbor Cove site
Description: Building Trades workers continue protest against J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons Ltd. after union company, Stevenson Construction, the original contractor slated to build the Pennyfarthing development, transferred the building contract to anti-union Kerkhoff.
Date: 1984-03-05

Title: Building trades pickets on Pennyfarthing - Harbor Cove site
Description: Building Trades workers continue protest against J.C. Kerkhoff and Sons Ltd. after union company, Stevenson Construction, the original contractor slated to build the Pennyfarthing development, transferred the building contract to anti-union Kerkhoff.
Date: 1984-03-05

Title: Carpenters unemployed march, New Westminster
Description: Carpenters, facing an unemployed rate of 32 per cent among their ranks, march in downtown New Westminster demanding government action to create jobs. The march highlighted a project where a once-planned ICBC centre was to be replaced by a mall and hotel complex but was stalled by government inaction.
Date: 1977-05-10

Title: Pete Seeger at press conference with Miles Richardson, Robert Davidson
Description: Pete Seeger (left) at press conference with Miles Richardson, announcing the Orpheum benefit concert for the Lyell Island campaign.
Date: 1986-03-20

Title: ICBC protest rally - Victoria legislature
Description: The newly-elected Social Credit government's announcement in January, 1976 that it would increase ICBC rates for auto insurance by 2X to 3X existing rates, and eliminate provisions that kept rates down for young drivers, sparked opposition throughout the province, beginning with regional protests and followed by a huge march and rally at the
Show moreThe newly-elected Social Credit government's announcement in January, 1976 that it would increase ICBC rates for auto insurance by 2X to 3X existing rates, and eliminate provisions that kept rates down for young drivers, sparked opposition throughout the province, beginning with regional protests and followed by a huge march and rally at the Legislature February 13 and a Lower Mainland protest that filled the PNE Agrodome February 1. Pat McGeer was the provincial cabinet minister responsible for ICBC.
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Date: 1976-02-13

Title: ICBC protest rally and car cavalcade - Simon Fraser University
Description: The newly-elected Social Credit government's announcement in January, 1976 that it would increase ICBC rates for auto insurance by 2X to 3X existing rates, and eliminate provisions that kept rates down for young drivers, sparked opposition throughout the province, beginning with regional protests and followed by a huge march and rally at the
Show moreThe newly-elected Social Credit government's announcement in January, 1976 that it would increase ICBC rates for auto insurance by 2X to 3X existing rates, and eliminate provisions that kept rates down for young drivers, sparked opposition throughout the province, beginning with regional protests and followed by a huge march and rally at the Legislature February 13 and a Lower Mainland protest that filled the PNE Agrodome February 1. Pat McGeer was the provincial cabinet minister responsible for ICBC.
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Date: 1976-02-08

Title: World Peace Council member Hans Krysmanski (left), Labour MP James Lamond
Date: 1984-11-27

Title: Vancouver Labour Council poll card mailing
Description: Photograph shows Frank Kennedy on the left, with Jim Thomas, campaign coordinator for a get-out-the-vote mailing for the upcoming Vancouver civic election. Campaign involved mailing 150,000 polling cards urging support for council candidates with the Committee of Progressive Electors, which the council helped form in 1968, and their allies.
Date: 1982-11-14

Title: DERA [Downtown Eastside Residents Association] demonstration outside Rent Review Commission - 1170 Hornby
Date: 1975-05-25

Title: CUPE [Canadian Union of Public Employees] demonstration, Vancouver city hall
Description: Rally of 2,500 people outside Vancouver city hall, organized by CUPE to demand that municipal employers return to the bargain table and address demand for wage parity with provincial government employees. Photo shows Dave Werlin, secretary of CUPE Local 1004, representing City of Vancouver outside workers.
Date: 1975-03-21

Title: Rally against Kerkhoff project - Roy Gautier
Description: Photograph shows B.C. and Yukon Building Trades Council president Roy Gautier speaking.
Date: 1987-05-23

Title: Canadian Farmworkers [Union] meeting against Bill 19, 20, Moberly School
Date: 1987-05-24

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