Brodie, Robert "Steve"

BRODIE, Robert "Steve," relief-camp activist (b 8 June 1910, Falkirk, Scotland; d 6 Dec 1997, Victoria). He came to Canada as an orphan sponsored by the Red Cross in 1924. He lost his job as a farm labourer when the Depression hit and he ended up in one of the BC RELIEF CAMPS for unemployed men. After participating in the ON-TO-OTTAWA TREK in 1935 he joined the Communist Party and was back in VANCOUVER in 1938 when another demonstration of unemployed men was being organized. He led a group of...

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