Toronto Workers' History Project

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Preserving and Promoting the History of Toronto’s Working People

The Toronto Workers History Project (TWHP) is a large group of workers, unionists, professors, students, artists, teachers, librarians, educators, researchers, community activists, and retirees dedicated to the preservation and promotion of the history of working people in Toronto.

We are committed to bringing to light the experiences of working people and their contributions as individuals and collectively to the building of this city, in the home, in the paid workplace, and in the community.

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The Toronto Workers’ History Project is a registered non-profit. We rely on dues and donations to continue our important work.

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Events & Presentations

CLiF Screenings (2023)

Canadian Labour International Film Festival TWHP Screening: Sunday, November 26th, 7:30 PM (ET) TWHP is again pleased to participate in the Canadian Labour International Film Festival. We have arranged for seven (7) screenings - all of the films in each program were...

Sweep and Say Union!

"The people united will never be defeated." That was the chant of determined women strikers in the streets of Toronto nearly forty years ago. This play brings to life the struggles for justice waged by 250 women cleaners working at First Canadian Place in downtown...

Davy the Punk

TWHP Presents Davy The Punk Join us for a lively evening with esteemed Canadian folksinger, composer and author Bob Bossin Bob will discuss Davy the Punk, his award-winning book about his father’s life in Toronto’s gambling Underworld of the 1930s and ‘40s....

Expressive Acts

RecordingTWHP presents IN THE STREETS Historian Ian Radforth will talk about his new book, EXPRESSIVE ACTSCelebrations and...

Workers Graphic Histories: New Ways to Tell Our Stories

RecordingJoin us for a Live Zoom Event! Tuesday, September 19th, 7 PM (ET) Join us Tuesday, September 19th, at 7:00 PM (ET)...

Honouring Elder Vern Harper and the Native People’s Caravan

RecordingJoin us for a Live Zoom Event! Tuesday, May 9th, 7 PM (ET)June is National Indigenous History Month in Canada, a...

Spadina on Strike: The 1986 Garment Workers’ Win

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Cleaning Up

TWHP and Rise Up! are proud to present a live Zoom event with Cleaning Up authors Susana P. Miranda and Franca Iacovetta. April 11th, 2023 @ 7:00 p.m. (ET) Not available? Don’t worry. Register now, and we’ll send you the replay link to watch at your...

50th Anniversary Tribute for the Coalition Against the Marcos Dictatorship (CAMD)

RecordingResources Photo by Gary Shaul (Man with Guitar and Semi-Automatic Machine Gun) CAMD Graphics, by Martha Ocampo CAMD Photos & Leaflets, by Jojo Geronimo 50th Anniversary Speech, by Jojo Geronimo Revisionist Narratives and the Revival of the Marcos Family...

Wanda MacNevin: By Us! For Us!

Courage, Advocacy, Belonging & Grassroot Activism TWHP proudly presents Wanda MacNevin to speak about her new book, By Us! For Us! (With help from Sharon Simpson and Bill Worrell) ​By Us! For Us! counters the mainstream narrative about the community of Jane-Finch...
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