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Building a Working-Class Community: From Wartime Housing to Schools in Kingscourt

By John Rose 2 years ago

In the early 1940s the Canadian federal government created a crown corporation called Wartime Housing

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How three illegal strikes established Kingston’s municipal workers’ union, CUPE 109

By Doug Nesbitt 3 years ago

Between June 16 and 20, 1952, more than a hundred employees of the City of

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