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Title: West Coast Oil Ports Inquiry - Steveston Buddhist Church
Description: Fraser River gillnet fisherman Edgar Birch, a member of the environmental committee of the United Fisherman and Allied Workers Union, speaking to Oil Ports Inquiry hearing in Steveston.
Date: 1977-10-27

Title: Trade union picket on South African ship, Centerm Pier
Description: B.C. Federation of Labour secretary treasurer Cliff Andstein listens as a court officer reads an injunction ordering trade union ;pickets to cease and desist from blocking the unloading of the South African vessel Nedlloyd Kembla at Centerm in Vancouver. The injunction came after pickets had blocked unloading for four days.
Date: 1986-03-20

Title: Marine workers demo re: Polar 8 contract outside first ministers' meeting, Hotel Vancouver
Description: Rally by members of Marineworkers and Boilermakers Industrial Union members outside Canadian First Ministers' conference Nov. 20 at Hotel Vancouver demanding that federal government award Polar 8 icebreaker contract to Versatile Pacific Shipyard in B.C., the low bidder on the project.
Date: 1986-11-20

Title: Marine workers demo re: Polar 8 contract outside first ministers' meeting, Hotel Vancouver
Description: Rally by members of Marineworkers and Boilermakers Industrial Union members outside Canadian First Ministers' conference Nov. 20 at Hotel Vancouver demanding that federal government award Polar 8 icebreaker contract to Versatile Pacific Shipyard in B.C., the low bidder on the project.
Date: 1986-11-20

Title: Marine workers demo re: Polar 8 contract outside first ministers' meeting, Hotel Vancouver
Description: Rally by members of Marineworkers and Boilermakers Industrial Union members outside Canadian First Ministers' conference Nov. 20 at Hotel Vancouver demanding that federal government award Polar 8 icebreaker contract to Versatile Pacific Shipyard in B.C., the low bidder on the project.
Date: 1986-11-20

Title: Marineworkers at B.I-Aire shipyard
Description: Marineworkers and Boilermakers Union president John Fitzpatrick ((right) with union members outside Bel-Aire Shipyard on day new owner had promised the shuttered yard would re-open. Closed Jan. 31, the yard was purchased by new owner to claim federal tax credits, but never opened again. Union members later marched to offices of government MP Chuck
Show moreMarineworkers and Boilermakers Union president John Fitzpatrick ((right) with union members outside Bel-Aire Shipyard on day new owner had promised the shuttered yard would re-open. Closed Jan. 31, the yard was purchased by new owner to claim federal tax credits, but never opened again. Union members later marched to offices of government MP Chuck Cook to demand action on shipbuilding initiatives.
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Date: 1986-02-17

Title: Marineworkers at Chuck Cook's office re: shipbuilding crisis
Description: Marineworkers Union members sit in at MP Chuck Cook's constituency office in North Vancouver to demand government action on promised shipbuilding initiatives following closure of Bel-Aire Shipyard in North Vancouver and loss of 60 jobs.
Date: 1986-02-17

Title: Marineworkers at B.I-Aire shipyard
Description: Marineworkers and Boilermakers Union president John Fitzpatrick (left, under sign) stands with union members outside Bel-Aire Shipyard on day new owner had promised the shuttered yard would re-open. Closed Jan. 31, the yard was purchased by new owner to claim federal tax credits, but never opened again. Union members later marched to offices of
Show moreMarineworkers and Boilermakers Union president John Fitzpatrick (left, under sign) stands with union members outside Bel-Aire Shipyard on day new owner had promised the shuttered yard would re-open. Closed Jan. 31, the yard was purchased by new owner to claim federal tax credits, but never opened again. Union members later marched to offices of government MP Chuck Cook to demand action on shipbuilding initiatives.
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Date: 1986-02-17

Title: Jack Johnson - Heavyweight Champion of the World, arriving at Vancouver, B.C.
Description: Jack Johnson and lady disembarking from S.S. Makura
Date: , 1909
Collection: Philip Francis Postcard Collection

Title: Capt. Geo. Vancouver
Description: Image depicting Captain George Vancouver and other men on a ship.
Date: ,
Collection: Philip Francis Postcard Collection

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Engaging the World