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Canadian Farmworkers Union collection
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Project files and photographs

Sub-series consists of proposals, reports, correspondence, and photographs relating to projects both internal and external, undertaken or contributed to by the Canadian Farmworkers Union and its members. These projects include cultural events, educational programs, photography projects and exhibits, and documentary videos, as well as research-based awareness projects. Records include production and event photographs, planning documents, and reports.

Records in this sub-series include material relating to the films A Time to Rise (Uthan da Vaila) (1981), produced and directed by Anand Patwardhan and Jim Munro with assistance from the National Film Board (NFB), which documented the history of the farmworkers’ struggle and the Canadian Farmworkers Union; Farmworkers Zindabad! (1985), written and directed by Craig Berggold and Sukhwant Hundal, which dramatized the Hoss Farming Company strike of 1984; and To Pick is Not to Choose (1985), directed by John Greyson for Tolpuddle Farm Labour Information Centre in Ontario. Also included are records relating to the photography exhibits “A Time to Change: South Asian Farmworkers of the Fraser Valley” (originally created in 1983 and exhibited numerous times) and “I would like to tell you a story… Health & Safety Regulations NOW!” (1986) by Craig Berggold. The sub-series also includes records of a health and safety campaign as well as the Technology Impact Program (TIP), a research project which gathered information about pesticide use on berry farms in BC.

Public meeting 09/06/79

File consists of 20 photographic negatives and 10 prints from the third public Farm Workers’ Organizing Committee meeting, held at David Thompson Secondary School, Vancouver, on June 9, 1979. Speakers included Raj Chouhan, International Woodworkers of America (IWA) Regional Council President Jack Munro, and Chairperson of the Labour Advocacy and Research Association Ujjal Dosanjh. Includes a paste-up of photographs for a Punjabi article on this meeting in The Farmworker Vol. 1, no. 1 (August 1979).

FWOC [Farm Workers’ Organizing Committee] June 9/79

File consists of 3 audio cassettes containing a recording from the third Farm Workers’ Organizing Committee meeting, held at David Thompson Secondary School, Vancouver, on June 9, 1979. Speakers included Raj Chouhan, International Woodworkers of America (IWA) Regional Council President Jack Munro, and Chairperson of the Labour Advocacy and Research Association Ujjal Dosanjh.

Convention and meeting minutes, photographs, and other records

Sub-series contains programs, notes, minutes, photographs, and other material from the Canadian Farmworkers Union’s annual conventions. Also included are records from Farm Workers’ Organizing Committee and Canadian Farmworkers Union public meetings, including photographs, speaking notes, and flyers; publicity records from CFU information meetings held by support committees across Canada; minutes and planning notes from CFU staff retreats; and programs and photographs from external meetings and conventions attended by CFU members, including those of the United Farm Workers of America, the BC Federation of Labour, the Canadian Labour Congress, the Manitoba Farm Workers Association, and the Indian People’s Association in North America.

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