Vancouver Island Coal Strike
- Title
- Vancouver Island Coal Strike
- Description
- Vancouver coal miners went on strike in the 1910s for safety issues and union recognition. This encyclopedia article discusses how companies retaliated by hiring strikebreakers and sending in militiamen. Efforts were unsuccessful and union recognition did not come until 1938.
- Creator
- Lynne Bowen
- Is Part Of
- State of the Salish Sea
- Publisher
- The Canadian Encyclopedia
- Date
- 3/4/2015
- Item sets
- Salish Resources