Chapter 8 - Women at Work

Except for the ruin of a stone chimney under blackberry brambles and fading memories in the surrounding community, little remains of the Hudson’s Bay Company outpost at Fort Rupert where British Columbia’s formal labour history began. It was here, in 1850, that the wives of eight Scottish coal miners brought in to work a seam for the company prodded their husbands to stand up for their rights, prompting the first job action in BC.

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