TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY (ASCH BUILDING) HAS BEEN DESIGNATED A NATIONAL HISTORIC LANDMARK THE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST FACTORY FIRE,IN WHICH 146 WORKERS DIED,OCCURRED HERE ON MARCH 25, 1911....
TRIANGLE FIRE ON THIS SITE, 146 WORKERS LOST THEIR LIVES INTHE TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST COMPANY FIRE ONMARCH 25, 1911. OUT OF THEIR MARTYRDOM CAMENEW CONCEPTS OF SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY...
Chaim Gross (1904-1991) From 1963 until his death, the renownedAmerican sculptor Chaim Gross lived andworked here. Born in the CarpathianMountains of Eastern Europe, Gross came toNew York City in...
“Art lets us make observations of things that were always there” - David Ireland Submitted by @plaidiguana
At this institute, Sir C. V. Raman discovered in 1928 that when a beam of coloured light entered a liquid, a fraction of the light scattered by that liquid was of a different color. Raman showed...
Planet Earth spins at a 23 degree angle from its North-South axis.Submitted by @plaidiguana
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...
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...
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
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
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...