Cornwall, Ontario is located in the easternmost stretch of southern Ontario along the St.Lawrence River, 30 minutes from the Quebec border. Since its founding in 1784, much of Cornwall’s history has been connected to its role as a regional industrial hub. Cornwall’s cotton mills opened for business as early as 1868, and the Toronto Paper…

From 2009-2015, the Greater Toronto Workers’ Assembly came together in an ambitious attempt to unite the working class and the left in Canada’s largest city. Evolving from the fallout of the 2008 financial crisis and nearly thirty-years of neoliberal economic policy, the group’s goal was to create a space for “voices on the left, and…

Throughout its history, the International Ladies’ Garment Workers’ Union was known for its social unionism, bringing education, co-operative housing, immigration support, and recreational opportunities to its members.

Our banner representing United Steelworkers Locals 4488 and 2771 was donated to us by Hank Wong, a WWII veteran, and an important figure in both the history of USW Local 4488, and Chinese-Canadian history.

For nearly 150 years, the Toronto Labour Day Parade has been an event where workers express their identity, union affiliation, and demands through the use of banners and flags.

Artists Carole Condé and Karl Beveridge are two of the founders of the Workers Arts and Heritage Centre. As labour artists, they have exhibited their art internationally, collaborated with unions, and created banners for the labour movement.

Serving and bartending are not commonly thought of as being unionized professions. However, in the early 1960s, service workers were at the forefront of one of Toronto’s most notorious strike actions: The Royal York Strike.

The history of unemployed workers’ unions in Canada dates back to 1930, when the Communist Party of Canada formed the National Unemployed Workers Association. They re-emerged out of Canada’s recession in the early 1980s, a period of high interest rates, inflation, and unemployment.

In operation continuously since 1888, Dominion Regalia is a company that manufactures badges, buttons, banners, and sashes for organizations, including unions.