Honouring Workers Yesterday & Today
For 34 years the Cumberland Museum & Archives has co-hosted an annual commemoration of fallen workers, highlighting labour history and contemporary labour issues. As one of the few yearly events celebrating labour history in western Canada, the three-day event welcomes hundreds of attendees and reflects a diversity of struggles, past and present. This year we go from global to local with presentations on mining in South Africa, a theatre production on Mother Jones and the March of the Mill Children, and new museum exhibits, including Coal, Conflict, and Community, and the new Royston Lumber Mill Exhibit. See our full schedule for more details.
We hope you join us, June 21 to 23, 2019!
Thank-you Fox&Bee Studio for this video and everyone that worked to make 2018’s events so successful.
21 Jun 2019
7:00pm
Songs of the Workers
This Friday Night tradition welcomes local and visiting musicians to share songs and poems in the working class tradition. Labour standards, old songs, new songs, struggle, triumph and revolution!
22 Jun 2019
11:15am - 1:00pm
Graveside Vigils
NEW! The morning graveside vigil begins at the Cumberland Japanese Canadian Cemetery and moves on to the Municipal Cemetary for speakers, music, the laying of fair trade flowers on Ginger Goodwin's grave, and a rose ceremony on the graves of all fallen miners. **Pick up bouquets in advance at the Japanese Canadian cemetery.
22 Jun 2019
7:30 pm
March of the Innocents
TheatreWorks (and Mother Jones) return to take us back to 1903 and the one-hundred-mile March of the Mill Children. Two shows! June 22 at 7:30 pm and June 23 at 2pm.
Take Part
• Lay a Bouquet • Volunteer • Sponsor Us • Donate
Lay a Bouquet
Purchase a fairtrade bouquet on behalf of an individual, organization, or union, to be laid during the graveside ceremony. Proceeds support the Cumberland Museum & Archives.
