Spring 2025 newsletter
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Kingston Musicians Strike of 1922
In 1922, musicians providing scores and accompaniment for theatre productions and motion pictures in Kingston
Cassie Ward Mee
Kingston’s own labour champion One might say Cassie Ward Mee is the mother of Kingston’s
Labour Day Newsletter
The Kingston Workers’ History Project is proud to publish its first newsletter. A full-colour edition
Building a Working-Class Community: From Wartime Housing to Schools in Kingscourt
In the early 1940s the Canadian federal government created a crown corporation called Wartime Housing
Solidarity in Wartime: The 1942 Kingston Shipbuilders Sympathy Strike
In April of 1942, workers at the Kingston Shipbuilding Company organized a sympathy walk-out to
How three illegal strikes established Kingston’s municipal workers’ union, CUPE 109
Between June 16 and 20, 1952, more than a hundred employees of the City of
ATAK: Tenant Action in the ’60s and ’70s
“The only way to counteract federal-provincial apathy is to organize – to stick together and
Kingston in Hard Times
Report The Kingston Workers’ History Project held its first meeting as a “fringe” event for
Unemployed workers invade City Hall!
In early 1933, three out of ten Canadians were unemployed. Kingston did not escape the