Industrial Workers of the World Vancouver Branch fonds. 1906-1973, 1985-1987.

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Industrial Workers of the World Vancouver Branch fonds. 1906-1973, 1985-1987.

The fonds consists of a variety of materials, once housed in the Vancouver offices of the IWW, including correspondence, newspapers, convention reports, brochures and cash books, posters, sound recordings of IWW songs, two glass panels from the Vancouver office with IWW insignia, charter and postcards. Fonds includes correspondence, subject files, minutes, photographs, posters and periodicals relating to labour and political issues ca. 1986, such as those relating to Expo '86, and includes correspondence of Bill Culp, Pam Tranfield, and Tom Wayman.

2 m of textual records and other material.

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Wayman, Tom, 1945-

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Born in Hawksbury, Ontario, in 1945, but raised mainly in British Columbia, Tom Wayman graduated with a BA from the University of British Columbia in 1966 and an MFA in English and Creative Writing from the University of California at Irvine in 1968. Since that time he has worked as a writer-in-residence and faculty member at a variety of institutions. He worked as a writer-in-residence at the University of Windsor (1975-76), University of Alberta (1978-79), Simon Fraser University (Spring 1983)...

Industrial Workers of the World. Vancouver Branch.

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Established in Chicago in 1905, the Industrial Workers of the World sought to unionize industrial workers. The Vancouver branch was founded ca. 1911. After the Branch's demise in the early 1970s, it became active in the 1980s under new leadership. From the description of Industrial Workers of the World Vancouver Branch fonds. 1906-1973, 1985-1987. (University of British Columbia Library). WorldCat record id: 606462090 ...

Tranfield, Pam, 1960-

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Culp, Bill

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