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Gentle and Invincible (T Buck Suzuki)

T Buck Suzuki was a leader among Japanese Canadian fishers who forged an alliance with unionized fishers on the Coast.(full page)Plaque courtesy of the BC Labour Heritage Centre's project Plaques...

T Buck Suzuki was a leader among Japanese Canadian fishers who forged an alliance with unionized fishers on the Coast.(full page)Plaque courtesy of the BC Labour Heritage Centre's project...

    A Revolution in a Wire

    History of British Columbia's telecommunications industry and the highly paid unionized workforce it supported.(full page)Plaque courtesy of the BC Labour Heritage Centre's project Plaques Around...

    History of British Columbia's telecommunications industry and the highly paid unionized workforce it supported.(full page)Plaque courtesy of the BC Labour Heritage Centre's project Plaques...

      Langley Teachers Association Connie Jervis Plaque

      Installed in 2017 by the Langley Teachers' Association and the BC Labour Heritage Centre, this plaque documents the fight by Connie Jervis and 40 other teachers in 1939-40 with their school board...

      Installed in 2017 by the Langley Teachers' Association and the BC Labour Heritage Centre, this plaque documents the fight by Connie Jervis and 40 other teachers in 1939-40 with their school board...

        Charles Painter Gravestone

        Gravesite marker of 34-year old Charles Painter, a special constable with the BC Electric Railway who was killed during a robbery in 1915. The gravestone was only installed in 2017 thanks to a...

        Gravesite marker of 34-year old Charles Painter, a special constable with the BC Electric Railway who was killed during a robbery in 1915. The gravestone was only installed in 2017 thanks to...

          Canada's First Teachers' Strike, Victoria 1919

          This plaque was installed by the Greater Victoria Teachers' Association and the BC Labour Heritage Centre in 2017 to commemorate the February 1919 teachers' strike. The job action, the first of...

          This plaque was installed by the Greater Victoria Teachers' Association and the BC Labour Heritage Centre in 2017 to commemorate the February 1919 teachers' strike. The job action, the first of...

            Blair Rifle Range Plaque

            This plaque was produced by the BC Labour Heritage Centre and the Deep Cove Heritage Society in 2017 to recognize the location of one of the 83 unemployed relief camps established in BC between...

            This plaque was produced by the BC Labour Heritage Centre and the Deep Cove Heritage Society in 2017 to recognize the location of one of the 83 unemployed relief camps established in BC...

              Dusty Greenwell Park

              Park in East Vancouver named after community activist Donald "Dusty" Greenwell. Greenwell, his father and grandfather were all coal miners from Vancouver Island. His grandfather was blacklisted...

              Park in East Vancouver named after community activist Donald "Dusty" Greenwell. Greenwell, his father and grandfather were all coal miners from Vancouver Island. His grandfather was...

                100 Years of Coal, Nanaimo

                A reminder of Nanaimo's coal mining past, this monument symbolizes the 1849-1949 period. At its base is a small plaque placed in 1987 by the United Mine Workers, possibly to recognize the 1887...

                A reminder of Nanaimo's coal mining past, this monument symbolizes the 1849-1949 period. At its base is a small plaque placed in 1987 by the United Mine Workers, possibly to recognize the 1887...

                  BC Teachers' Federation 100 Years

                  Located at the former site of the King Edward High School, this plaque commemorates the location where the BC Teachers' Federation was established in 1917.(full page)Plaque courtesy of the BC...

                  Located at the former site of the King Edward High School, this plaque commemorates the location where the BC Teachers' Federation was established in 1917.(full page)Plaque courtesy of the...

                    Mickey O'Rourke Gravesite

                    Mickey O'Rourke, war hero and Victoria Cross winner in World War One is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Burnaby. O'Rourke led union longshoremen on their march to Ballantyne Pier in...

                    Mickey O'Rourke, war hero and Victoria Cross winner in World War One is buried at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Burnaby. O'Rourke led union longshoremen on their march to Ballantyne Pier...

                      Federico Garcia Lorca

                      Federico Garcia Lorca(1898-1936) Poet, dramatist and political activist whose heroic opposition to totalitarianism resulted in his murder by Fascists during the Spanish Civil War.   Submitted by...

                      Federico Garcia Lorca(1898-1936) Poet, dramatist and political activist whose heroic opposition to totalitarianism resulted in his murder by Fascists during the Spanish Civil War.   Submitted...

                        Jane Addams

                        Jane Addams (1860-1935)  Pioneering social reformer, activist for women's rights and world peace, public philosopher, author, first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.   Submitted by...

                        Jane Addams (1860-1935)  Pioneering social reformer, activist for women's rights and world peace, public philosopher, author, first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.   Submitted by...

                          James Baldwin

                          James Baldwin (1924-1987)  Eloquent novelist, essayist, poet, social critic, civil rights leader and passionate advocate for racial equality and human rights for gays.   Submitted by Darren Platt

                          James Baldwin (1924-1987)  Eloquent novelist, essayist, poet, social critic, civil rights leader and passionate advocate for racial equality and human rights for gays.   Submitted by Darren Platt

                            Yelamu

                            BEFORE 1776 THE NATIVE YELAMU PEOPLE LIVE NEARBY IN THE VILLAGE OF CHUTCHUI, RELOCATING EACH WINTER TO THE BAYSIDE VILLAGE OF SITLINTAC. A CREEK FLOWS PAST GRASSLAND AND CHAPARRAL TOWARD THE BAY...

                            BEFORE 1776 THE NATIVE YELAMU PEOPLE LIVE NEARBY IN THE VILLAGE OF CHUTCHUI, RELOCATING EACH WINTER TO THE BAYSIDE VILLAGE OF SITLINTAC. A CREEK FLOWS PAST GRASSLAND AND CHAPARRAL TOWARD THE BAY...

                              Commemorating 150 Years of Gold

                              CITY OF GREATER BENDIGO COMMEMORATING 150 YEARS OF GOLD Mrs. Margaret Kennedy and Mrs. Farrell found gold near this spot in the spring of 1851. Discovery of gold marked the beginning of Bendigo,...

                              CITY OF GREATER BENDIGO COMMEMORATING 150 YEARS OF GOLD Mrs. Margaret Kennedy and Mrs. Farrell found gold near this spot in the spring of 1851. Discovery of gold marked the beginning of...

                                Dorthea Bate

                                Dorothea Bate, a paleontologist, ornithologist & zoologist, has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Bate was the first female scientist employed by @NHM_London & spent 50 years there. DORTHEA...

                                Dorothea Bate, a paleontologist, ornithologist & zoologist, has been commemorated with a blue plaque. Bate was the first female scientist employed by @NHM_London & spent 50 years there. DORTHEA...

                                • palaeontology
                                • women
                                • natual history
                                • wales
                                • carmarthen

                                Ethan Rarick

                                During his time at this residence from 1999 - 2007  Ethan Rarick wrote  California Rising The life and times of Pat Brown  and  Desperate Passage The Doner Party's perilous journey west  ...

                                During his time at this residence from 1999 - 2007  Ethan Rarick wrote  California Rising The life and times of Pat Brown  and  Desperate Passage The Doner Party's perilous journey west...

                                • rarick
                                • pat brown
                                • berkeley
                                • donner party

                                China Wall of the Sierra

                                China Wall of the Sierra Charles Crocker, construction chief of the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR), contracted for a workforce of approximately 12,000 Chinese laborers to push the CPRR tracks...

                                China Wall of the Sierra Charles Crocker, construction chief of the Central Pacific Railroad (CPRR), contracted for a workforce of approximately 12,000 Chinese laborers to push the CPRR tracks...

                                • sierra nevada
                                • donner pass
                                • chinese
                                • california
                                • transcontine...
                                • central paci...

                                Oldest Continuously Operating Passenger Railroad in the West

                                Plaque located at the Caltrain station at 4th and Townsend streets in San Francisco's far South of Market area (and not to far from Phone Company Park, where the Giants play). Here's the text,...

                                Plaque located at the Caltrain station at 4th and Townsend streets in San Francisco's far South of Market area (and not to far from Phone Company Park, where the Giants play). Here's the...

                                • san francisc...
                                • san francisco
                                • san jose
                                • railroads
                                • caltrain
                                • transit

                                Nebraska's Butte County

                                  Butte Country Perhaps no spot in Nebraska is so surrounded by historical and geographical landmarks as this one. Numerous landmarks of the period of the Indian Wars are visible from here. The...

                                  Butte Country Perhaps no spot in Nebraska is so surrounded by historical and geographical landmarks as this one. Numerous landmarks of the period of the Indian Wars are visible from here. The...

                                • nebraska
                                • great plains