Series 1: Canadian labour and social history

Inventory list
Identifier Sort ascending Title Level of description Date Digital object
2015-001/013(25) Workers’ Unity League : Primary Sources : Canada : Dept. of Justice files (RG 13) : Force and Violence police guidelines File 1930-1933
2015-001/014(05) Workers’ Unity League : Primary Sources : Dept. of Labour files : strikes and lockouts : RG 27 : reels T-2763 – T-2765 (2 of 2) File Aug. 1932-June 1933
2015-001/014(06) Workers’ Unity League : Primary Sources : Canada : Dept. of Labour files : strikes and lockouts : RG 27 : reels T-2766 – T-2969 File 1933
2015-001/015(04) Workers’ Unity League : Primary Sources : Canada : Dept. of Labour files : strikes and lockouts : RG 27 : reel T-2982 v.373 file #23 : on to Ottawa trek (entire folder) File 1935
2015-001/015(10) Workers’ Unity League : Primary Sources : Canada : Dominion Bureau of Statistics : Canada Year Book : Labour and wages File 1934-1935
2015-001/016(01) Workers’ Unity League : Primary Sources : Archives of Ontario : Communist Party of Canada records : reel 1 : (pre 8 August 1931) File 1930-1931
2015-001/016(05) Workers’ Unity League : Primary Sources : Archives of Ontario : Communist Party of Canada records : reel 5 : CPC plenum File Feb. 1931
2015-001/016(10) Workers’ Unity League : Primary Sources : Price, Col. Hon. W. H. : Political Changes by Force and Violence File 1933
2015-001/016(23) Workers’ Unity League : Primary Sources : Vancouver City Archives : Vancouver Board of Trade File [ca. 199-]
2015-001/017(04) Workers’ Unity League : Primary Sources : Newspapers and periodicals : Communist Review-one article File May-June 1934
2015-001/018(01) Workers’ Unity League : Primary Sources : Newspapers and periodicals : The Worker : selected articles File 1930
2015-001/018(06) Workers’ Unity League : Primary Sources : Newspapers and periodicals : The Worker : selected articles File Jan.-June 1934
2015-001/018(14) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Abella, Irving : On Strike: six key labour struggles in Canada 1919-1949, and The Canadian Labour Movement 1902-1960 File 1975
2015-001/019(02) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Barman, Jean : The West Beyond the West: a history of British Columbia File [1993]
2015-001/019(05) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Brown, Lorne and Caroline : An Unauthorized History of the RCMP File 1973
2015-001/019(11) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Cohen, Peter : Sweden: the model that never was (Monthly Review) File July-Aug. 1994
2015-001/019(16) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Devinatz, Victor G. : Fighting for a “Better, More Beautiful World” File 2007
2015-001/019(17) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Drummond, Ian : Empire Trade and Russian Trade: economic diplomacy in the nineteen-thirties File 1972
2015-001/019(21) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Frank, David : The Country of Coal (Labour/Le Travail) File Spring 1988
2015-001/019(23) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Fudge, Judy et al : Labour Before the Law File 2001/2004
2015-001/019(26) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Harp, John et al : Structured Inequality in Canada File 1980
2015-001/019(30) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Horn, Michiel : The Depression in Canada (1988) and “The Dirty Thirties” (1972) File 1972, 1988
2015-001/019(40) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Laxer, Robert : Canada’s Unions File 1980
2015-001/019(44) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Logan, H.A. : Trade Unions in Canada File 1948
2015-001/020(03) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : McKay, Colin : Working Class Culture File 1996
2015-001/020(08) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Naylor, James : Ontario Workers and the Decline of Labourism File 1988
2015-001/020(09) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Neale, R.S. : Class and Urban History and the Historian’s Task File 1985
2015-001/020(10) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Nelles, H.V.: The Politics of Development: forests, mines & electric power in Ontario, 1849-1941 File 1974
2015-001/020(12) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Norrie, Kenneth et al. : A History of the Canadian Economy File 1991
2015-001/020(15) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Osberg, Lars : Economic Inequality and Poverty (International Perspectives) File 1991
2015-001/020(16) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Palmer, Bryan : Capitalism Comes to the Backcountry File 1994
2015-001/020(22) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Pilon, Denis : Socialist Democracy: what role for Marxism? File 2003
2015-001/020(28) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Rose, Fred : Spying on Labour File 1939
2015-001/020(31) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Scott, Jack : A Communist Life: Jack Scott and the Canadian workers’ movement 1927-1985 File 1988
2015-001/020(32) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Seager, Allen : The Pass Strike of 1932 File 1977
2015-001/020(35) Workers’ Unity League : Secondary Sources : Stafford, Ellen : Always and After: a memoir File 1999
2015-001/021(04) Workers’ Unity League : Whitaker, Reg : Official Repression of Communism During World War II (Labour/Le Travail) File Spring 1986
2015-001/021(12) Workers’ Unity League : Manley, John : Communism and the Canadian Working Class 1930-1936 : thesis Dalhousie University, Chapters 1-4 File 1984
2015-001/022(06) Workers’ Unity League : Rankin, Phillip : The Workers’ Unity League: an historical paper : BA paper SFU File 1973
2015-001/022(22) Workers’ Unity League : Illustrations : chapter 11 File [ca. 2011]
2015-001/022(25) Workers’ Unity League : Illustrations : chapter 14 File [ca. 2011]
2015-001/022(26) Workers’ Unity League : Illustrations : chapter 15 File [ca. 2011]
2015-001/023(07) Bienfait : University of Toronto Press : Correspondence File 2000-2007
2015-001/023(08) Bienfait : book outline and notes File 1995
2015-001/023(11) Bienfait : book cover File [2001]
2015-001/023(12) Bienfait : Introduction first draft File 1999
2015-001/023(22) Remembering Coal Miners’ Strike : Celebration : Bienfait File 10 May 1997
2015-001/024(06) Bienfait : Interviews : Steve Elchyson, John Billis & family, William Choma File [1997-ca. 1999]
2015-001/024(14) Bienfait : Chronology of Bienfait Strike : organized by theme : file 2 File [ca. 199-]
2015-001/025(01) Ukrainian organizations File 1933-1993
2015-001/025(09) Bienfait Village : Churches File 1933-1995
2015-001/025(12) Trials : Author’s sources File 1995
2015-001/025(14) Trials : Annie Buller : Preliminary Hearing-transcript extracts File 23 Dec. 1931
2015-001/025(20) Trials : Sam Scarlett : trial transcript File 1931-1932
2015-001/026(11) Estevan Municipal Archives : Strike of 1931 file File [1931-1932]
2015-001/026(12) National Archives of Canada : R.B. Bennett Papers, MG26K File 1931
2015-001/026(14) National Archives of Canada : Canadian Security Information Service (CSIS) records : RG146, Royal Canadian Mounted Police : Vol. 817 : File H.V.7 : Parts 4-6 File 1931-1932
2015-001/027(02) Canadian Security Information Service (CSIS) records : Royal Canadian Mounted Police files : RG146 : Vol. 3463 : Files on Communist Party in Bienfait File 1934-1935
2015-001/027(05) Regina Public Library : Leader-Post (Regina, SK) : photocopied articles File 1931
2015-001/027(10) The Mercury (Estevan, SK) : photocopied articles sorted into themes with notes File 1930-1933
2015-001/027(15) Royal Commission on Estevan-Bienfait Mining Dispute in 1931 (Wylie Royal Commission) : Witnesses File 1931
2015-001/027(16) Royal Commission on Estevan-Bienfait Mining Dispute in 1931 (Wylie Royal Commission) : The Mercury (Estevan) : articles on the hearings File 1931
2015-001/027(18) Royal Commission on the Coal Mining Industry, 1934 (Turgeon Commission) - notes File 1934
2015-001/027(22) Friess, Lorna. “The Unionization of the Estevan Coal Mines” File Mar. 1976
2015-001/027(23) Hanson, S.D. ‘Estevan 1931’ from “On Strike: Six Key Labour Struggles in Canada, 1919-1949” File 1975
2015-001/027(27) Makahonuk, Glen. ‘The Saskatchewan Coal Strikes of 1932: A Study in Class Relations’ File 1984
2015-001/028(01) Pawson, Alice. “Memories of Shand: History of a Saskatchewan Coal Mining Community” File 1992
2015-001/028(03) ‘The ‘Soo Line’ and Its People’. Overgard Saskatchewan Directories File 1956
2015-001/028(07) Bienfait : coalfields in Saskatchewan : maps File [1928-1996]
2015-001/028(10) Bienfait : Illustrations : photo section 2 File [ca. 1913-1931]
2015-001/029(01) Bienfait Village Plans, Alberta Coal Mines 1930s, Saskatchewan Coal Mining Area & Markets, Plan of Coal Mines : Eastern Colleries, Bienfait SK, M&S Mine (Manitoba & Saskatchewan) Bienfait Payroll for December 1931 (after the strike) (in a Tube Roll) File [193-]
2015-001/001(01) Accession notes from the donor File 2014
2015-001/001(04) Workers’ Unity League : correspondence File 1991-2000
2015-001/001(09) Workers’ Unity League : working files : chronology of Workers’ Unity League File 2002
2015-001/001(10) Workers’ Unity League : chronology of major Workers’ Unity League Events + Struggles File 2002
2015-001/001(11) Workers’ Unity League : chronology of Communist Party of Canada File 1921-1954
2015-001/001(14) Workers’ Unity League : working files : access to information correspondence File 1993-2007
2015-001/001(19) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 2 : The Red International with notes File [2006]
2015-001/001(25) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 5 : 1931 Trial by Fire - Fraser Mills strike File [1931-1982]
2015-001/002(03) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 7 : August 1932 : Confronting the Prime Minister : notes + source material File 1932
2015-001/002(13) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 9 : Women of the Workers’ Unity League : modern feminists + Communist Party File 1988-2006
2015-001/002(17) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 10 : Hard Rock Mines : Noranda File 1932-1934, 1975, 1991
2015-001/003(03) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 10 : Hard Rock Mines : Flin Flon : Bill Ross 1934-1935 File 2005
2015-001/003(04) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 10 : Hard Rock Mines : Flin Flon : Excerpts from “Flin Flon” by V. Hedman : excerpts File 1974
2015-001/003(07) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 11 : 1933: Gaining Momentum File [2008]
2015-001/003(09) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 11 : 1933: Gaining Momentum : National Congress on Unemployment (Ottawa) File 1933
2015-001/003(14) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 11 : 1933: Gaining Momentum : strikes : furniture : Stratford, ON File 1933-1937
2015-001/003(17) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 11 : 1933: Gaining Momentum : strikes : Calgary Relief Strike File 1933
2015-001/003(21) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 12 : Sweatshops and Militancy in the Needles Trades : International Ladies Garment Workers Union Toronto 1928-1934 File 1928-1934, 1985
2015-001/003(22) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 12 : Sweatshops and Militancy in the Needles Trades : strikes : garment workers Winnipeg 1933 File 1987
2015-001/003(25) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 13 : Woodsmen of the West : outline and notes File [ca. 1994-200-]
2015-001/003(28) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 13 : Woodsmen of the West : Council of Forest Industries : UBC File 1934
2015-001/004(04) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 14 : Fishers in the Salish Sea : articles from “Worker” (1933-1934) and “Unemployed Worker” (1931-1933) File 1933-1934, 1931-1933
2015-001/004(07) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 14 : Fishers in the Salish Sea : articles File 1950-2002
2015-001/004(08) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 15 : Not Hot Cakes or Foremen: On to Ottawa! : notes File [200-]
2015-001/004(09) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 15 : On to Ottawa! : organizing of unemployed : Comintern Archives : NAC : K281 File 1931-1935
2015-001/004(14) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 15 : On to Ottawa! : relief camps articles File 1935
2015-001/004(15) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 15 : On to Ottawa! : Arthur Evans and trek to Ottawa File 1932-1935, 1974
2015-001/004(23) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 16 : Changing Times: the year 1934: a time of turbulence + indecision File [1934-1987]
2015-001/004(25) Workers’ Unity League : chapter 16 : Changing Times: the year 1934 : ‘a non-sectarian left’ File [1934-1935]