Archive: SFU Library’s Labour Archive
Fall 2001 update: The labour archive collection has now been acquired and is in the process of being catalogued. Cataloguing will likely not be complete until after Summer 2002. Please consult the SFU, Burnaby W.A.C. Bennett Library catalogue in the Fall of 2002 to see if the material is available for viewing.
Labour Archive Fund
A Fund-Raising Initiative from the Institute for the Humanities and the Margarett and Lefty Endowment Fund
On occasion a relatively new university like Simon Fraser has the rare opportunity to acquire a unique and important library collection. Through the fund raising initiatives of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, and the Margarett and Lefty Endowment Fund, we have acquired a collection on the history of Western Canadian labour and social movements, including that of the CCF.Western Canadian Labour and Socialist Party, 1895–1930
Mostly focused on BC with much on the Vancouver Island coal-mining and its industrial disputes, the One Big Union and the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, the Social Gospel on the Prairies, and the early lumber industry. The largest part of the collection is of Socialist Party of Canada pamphlets and newspapers including the Western Clarion, The Red Flag, The Indicator, and The Strike Bulletin from the 1919 Vancouver General Strike. The collection now also includes the archive of one of the Socialist Party of Canada leaders, James Hawthornthwaite, Nanaimo MLA 1901-08 and 1909-12.
CCF-NDP
Pamphlets, leaflets, convention documents, periodicals and minute books. Mostly from BC, with some elements from the national level and Saskatchewan and Alberta. Strong in the 1930's and 1940's, with some material up to the founding of the NDP and beyond. Includes: the Rev. Connell Papers (early BC CCF Leader who left to form the BC Constructivists), CCF Club of North Vancouver Record Books (1930's), BC CCF Convention Reports, Memoirs and Biographies of key Figures, runs of News Comment, Saskatchewan CCF Research Bureau, CCF Challenge (the F.F. Scott set), selected posters.
