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Peter Burton was born in Pembroke, Ontario, and worked for the Georgia Straight in Vancouver before going into the resource industry in northern BC. Peter was President of CASAW in 1976, when the Wildcat strike by Alcan smelter workers in Kitimat occurred in response to wage control legislation introduced by the federal government under Pierre Trudeau.

John Jensen was a Danish-born union and community activist in Northwestern B.C. He was an active member of the Carpenters' Union and a delegate to the Kitimat and Terrace District Labour Council for 50 years. He became coordinator of the Labour Studies Program at the Northwest Community College soon after it was established. Jensen also describes his environmental activism, and the accomplishments of the Northwest Study Conference which developed very early and lasting relationships between…