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Commemoration of Ginger Goodwin Cairn, Cumberland

Year: 1986

Description: Photograph shows Barney McGuire (left) and Rick Briggs at Ginger Goodwin cairn during Miner's Memorial Weekend in Cumberland.

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Commemoration of Ginger Goodwin Cairn, Cumberland

Year: 1986

Description: Photograph shows Barney McGuire speaking at Ginger Goodwin cairn during Miner's Memorial Weekend in Cumberland.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

Ginger Goodwin memorial - Cumberland

Year: 1987

Description: Victoria Catholic Bishop Remi De Roo speaks at ceremony at Comox Lake to dedicate the memorial plaque to slain unionist Albert "Ginger" Goodwin, killed by a conscription officer in 1918. Behind de Roo is Leo Nimsick, a former Mine Mill and Smelter Workers organizer and mines minister in the government of Premier Dave Barrett.

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Ginger Goodwin memorial - Cumberland

Year: 1987

Description: Leo Nimsick, a former Mine Mill and Smelter Workers organizer and mines minister in the government of Premier Dave Barrett at the dedication of the Ginger Goodwin memorial plaque at Comox Lake.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

Tolstoy monument unveiling, Doukhobor museum, Castlegar - unveiling of monument

Year: 1987

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image

Tolstoy monument unveiling, Doukhobor museum, Castlegar - Ilya Tolstoy

Year: 1987

Description:

Photograph shows Ilya Tolstoy, great-grandson of the Russian novelist Lev Tolstoy at the unveiling of the sculpture raised in his great-grandfather's honour in Castlegar. The sculpture, paid for by the Soviet Peace Committee and Society Rodina, was in tribute to the Russian novelist who used the proceeds from the sale of his novel Resurrection to finance the Doukhobors emigration to Canada in 1899, allowing them to escape persecution for their pacifist views.

Part of: Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection

Type: Still Image