Workers and Sport in Toronto | Jan. 8, 7pm

Dec 28, 2018 | Event

Tuesday, January 8, 7:00 p.m. Steelworkers’ Hall, 25 Cecil St. Sports have long been a crucial expression of working-class cultures and experiences. Many workers played sports as a leisure activity after a long week on the job, and sports clubs and teams were...
Norm Appleton

Norm Appleton

Dec 2, 2018 | Oral History Project

Norman Appleton, born in Trinidad in 1927, describes the various jobs he held before coming to Canada in 1957, where he eventually became a welder and union steward at Canada Packers in the Toronto stockyards area.  He later worked at DeHavilland (now Bombardier) in...
Month: December 2018