Collection consists of letters written to and from Wil Hudson, his personal photographs and negatives, and type blocks used during his work as a printer. Collection also includes tributes to Wil Hudson written after his death in 2014.
The Pacific Socialist Education Association’s Pacific Tribune Photograph Collection comprises over 40,000 35-mm images taken for the weekly Vancouver labour newspaper Pacific Tribune. The images cover a twenty-year period, from 1972 to 1992, one of the most active periods in British Columbia’s labour history. Included in the collection are images from some of the most tumultuous events involving British Columbia’s labour movements:
the province-wide campaign against insurance rate increases introduced by the new Social Credit government in 1976
the opposition to federal wage controls that culminated in a one-day national work stoppage in 1976
the historic Solidarity movement in 1983
labour’s campaign — that also included a one-day work stoppage in 1987 — against government legislation that severely curtailed the right to organize unions and bargain collectively
The collection is also a rich source of images from political and other social movements, including:
rallies and campaigns for human rights
internationally recognized Vancouver walks for peace during the mid-1980s
The negatives depict Hudson in his shops in Vancouver (Cambie Street and later Marine Drive), as manager of the Kingait print cooperative at Kinngait (previously Cape Dorest), and socializing in Vancouver, Burnaby and Powell River. The individuals depicted in the photos, sometimes identified by first name in the file titles, include: Wil Hudson Keith, Betty and Brendan Shields Fritz Jacobsen Bill Shoebotham Harold Johnston Frances Johnston Sean Johnston
Collection consists of first issues of stamps, postcards, comics and other materials related to Blair Henshaw’s collecting and AIDS-awareness advocacy work. Collection has been arranged into the following five series: Stamps and related records (1988–[before 2002]), Postcards, posters and phone cards (1983–[before 2002]), Exhibition records (1993–1999), AIDS on Stamps project files [199-]–2003 and Correspondence (1993–2002).