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Peter Poole fonds

  • F-161
  • Fonds
  • 1983 - 1987

The fonds consists of research material acquired by Peter Poole in the course of preparing his thesis and an earlier essay on the solidarity movement. The fonds includes taped interviews of trade union leaders, solidarity movement leaders, community activists, and legal counsel. Twenty-six of the interviews are transcribed. The fonds also includes newspapers and newsclippings, essays, publications, flyers, research notes, ephemera, a chronology of the solidarity movement, and a copy of Peter Poole's thesis.

Poole, Peter

Research files

Series consists of records made or received by Peter Poole in the course of preparing his thesis on the solidarity movement in British Columbia. Includes news clippings, essays, publications, flyers, research notes, ephemera, a copy of the thesis, and a chronology of the 1983 conflict between the solidarity movement and the Social Credit government of British Columbia.

Interviews and transcripts

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 Peter Poole's master's thesis

Poole conducted a large group of interviews in the Lower Mainland. His subjects included labour representatives from Operation Solidarity (the trade union component of the movement), representatives from the Solidarity Coalition (the community component) and Leo McGrady, who headed the law firm that defended the unions before the Labour Relations Board and the courts.

Interviews of Terrace/Kitimat trade unionists

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.

Interviews for a previous solidarity movement essay

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.

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