SFU AtoM

Series consists of 68 interviews conducted by Peter Poole with trade union leaders, solidarity movement leaders, community activists, and legal counsel. Records include sound recordings of the interviews, lists of interview subjects, Poole's personal impressions of the tape recorded interviews and interviewees, and 26 transcripts made by students. Interviews range from one-half hour to two hours in length.

Interviews for a previous solidarity movement essay

F-161-2-1
Sub-series
1984

Part of Peter Poole fonds

During 1984, while Poole was a student at SFU, he wrote an essay on the solidarity movement, Progressive Activism and the Solidarity Movement: Towards a Radical Perspective. Interviewees were chosen from a number of left-wing activists who had been directly involved with the solidarity struggle or who had followed it closely. Sub-series includes 1 file listing interviewees and the sound recordings of the interviews.

Annis, Ruth: child support worker, Vancouver

F-161-2-1-0-0-1
Item
27 February 1984

Part of Peter Poole fonds

Persky, Stan: author, Capilano College professor, Vancouver

F-161-2-1-0-0-10
Item
7 February 1984

Part of Peter Poole fonds

Sayers, Geraldine: student, ex-BCGEU member, Burnaby

F-161-2-1-0-0-11
Item
4 February 1984

Part of Peter Poole fonds

Wilson, Fred: Labour Secretary for the Communist Party of Canada

F-161-2-1-0-0-12
Item
15 February 1984

Part of Peter Poole fonds

Bostock, David: union pile driver, Vancouver

F-161-2-1-0-0-2
Item
6 February 1984

Part of Peter Poole fonds

Coward, Barbara: teacher, Vancouver

F-161-2-1-0-0-3
Item
10 February 1984

Part of Peter Poole fonds

Garrod, Steve: student, Vancouver

F-161-2-1-0-0-4
Item
10 February 1984

Part of Peter Poole fonds

Howard, Steven: student, Vancouver

F-161-2-1-0-0-5
Item
13 February 1984

Part of Peter Poole fonds

Lyons, Phil: ex-staff training supervisor for Human Resources, Vancouver

F-161-2-1-0-0-6
Item
9 February 1984

Part of Peter Poole fonds

McGuckin, Gene: pulp and paper worker, Vancouver

F-161-2-1-0-0-7
Item
8 February 1984

Part of Peter Poole fonds

Nichol, Sandra: unemployed teacher, Vancouver

F-161-2-1-0-0-8
Item
6 February 1984

Part of Peter Poole fonds

Palmer, Bryan: SFU professor, Burnaby

F-161-2-1-0-0-9
Item
23 February 1984

Part of Peter Poole fonds

List of tape recorded interviews for a previous solidarity movement essay

F-161-2-1-0-1
File
1984

Part of Peter Poole fonds

Interviews of Terrace/Kitimat trade unionists

F-161-2-2
Sub-series
1985

Part of Peter Poole fonds

Peter Poole lived in Terrace for a number of years in the late seventies and early eighties and was especially active in the Terrace/Kitimat Labour Council). His interview subects comprised a cross-section of people from different unions and different occupations: for example, a teacher (BCTF), academic faculty from Northwest College (CUPE), a federal fisheries officer (PSAC), a library clerk (BCGEU), pulp mill workers and aluminum smelter workers (CAIMAW and CASAW), and a labourer (Rock & Tunnel Union). Records include one file listing the interviewees and the sound recordings of the interviews.

Corbeil, Mike: BCGEU, Kitimat