Cassie Ward Mee
Kingston’s own labour champion One might say Cassie Ward Mee is the mother of Kingston’s
Year: 2023
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