23 Degree Angle
Planet Earth spins at a 23 degree angle from its North-South axis.Submitted by @plaidiguana
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Burnaby Civic Employees Union Memorial Fountain
This granite drinking fountain is a monument to Burnaby's municipal employees who lost their lives in the First World War. It signifies an important connection with the early strength and...
Phoenix Cenotaph
Memorial to Phoenix miners killed in WW 1. Phoenix is an abandoned mining community that once housed 4,000 residents.Before it closed its doors, the town council sold the skating rink building...
Winged Victory
Monument and plaque to railway workers who were killed in World War 1 and World War 2.(full page)Plaque courtesy of the BC Labour Heritage Centre's project Plaques Around the Province. project
BC government workers killed in World War One
Bronze plaque honouring BC government workers killed in World War One.(full page)Plaque courtesy of the BC Labour Heritage Centre's project Plaques Around the Province. project
British Columbia's Memorial to Spanish Civil War Veterans
Monument and Plaque to British Columbians who served in the Mackenzie–Papineau Battalion or Mac-Paps, a battalion of Canadians who fought as part of the XV International Brigade on...
Canada's WW1 Internment Operations, 1914-1920
Beginning in 1914, Canada interred 8,597 persons deemed to be ""enemy aliens"". They included immigrants from specified countries, merchant marines and military reservists.During the war, the...
Mackenzie Papineau Brigade Plaque, Cumberland
Plaque for Gordon and Moon Keenan, veterans of the Spanish Civil War.(full page)Plaque courtesy of the BC Labour Heritage Centre's project Plaques Around the Province. project
WWI memorial plaque, B.C. Telephone Company workers
The memorial plaque was dedicated to B.C. Telephone Company workers who participated in the First World War. The plaque indicates who was killed, wounded, wounded twice, wounded and prisoner, who...
BC Postal Workers Killed in WW1 and WW2
This plaque,once hung in Vancouver's Main Post Office in what is now the Sinclair Centre. In 1958 it was moved to the Post Office on Georgia Street in downtown Vancouver. At some point, the...
Day of Mourning, Gibsons
April 28 Day of Mourning Plaque, sponsored by the Sunshine Coast Labour Council (2012). The National Day of Mourning, is observed in Canada on April 28. It commemorates workers who have been...
CUPE Local 116 Workers' Memorial
This memorial was created to enable CUPE Local 116 members to have a place to remember their sisters and brothers who had passed away either while still employed or retired. This memorial...
Day of Mourning, Mackenzie
April 28 Day of Mourning Plaque. The National Day of Mourning is observed in Canada on April 28. It commemorates workers who have been killed, injured or suffered illness due to workplace...
Day of Mourning, Nelson
The National Day of Mourning, is observed in Canada on 28 April. It commemorates workers who have been killed, injured or suffered illness due to workplace related hazards and...
Day of Mourning, Fort St John
April 28 Day of Mourning Plaque, erected in approximately 2000 in a joint program between Worksafe BC, the BC Federation of Labour and the BC Business Council. The National Day of Mourning is...
Workers' Memorial Monument, Squamish
April 28 Day of Mourning Plaque, erected in approximately 2000 in a joint program between Worksafe BC, the BC Federation of Labour and the BC Business Council. The National Day of Mourning is...
Day of Mourning, Zeballos
April 28 Day of Mourning Plaque, erected in approximately 2000 in a joint program between Worksafe BC, the BC Federation of Labour and the BC Business Council. The National Day of Mourning is...
Day of Mourning Plaque and tree, Fraser Lake
April 28 Day of Mourning Plaque, erected in approximately 2000 in a joint program between Worksafe BC, the BC Federation of Labour and the BC Business Council. The National Day of Mourning is...
Day of Mourning Duncan
April 28 Day of Mourning Plaque, erected in approximately 2000 in a joint program between Worksafe BC, the BC Federation of Labour and the BC Business Council. The National Day of Mourning is...
Day of Mourning Coquitlam
April 28 Day of Mourning Plaque, erected in approximately 2000 in a joint program between Worksafe BC, the BC Federation of Labour and the BC Business Council. The National Day of Mourning is...