Canadian Committee on Labour History Workshop 2009

Labour and Capital: Making Labour History in Ottawa

Canadian Committee on Labour History / Workers Heritage Centre Workshop 2009

Ottawa, Ontario Sunday, 24 May 2009

Hosted by the Ottawa Workers Heritage Centre, 306 Cyr Avenue, Ottawa, Ontario

(All sessions, unless otherwise noted, will take place next door at the

Canadian Legion, 294 Cyr Avenue, Ottawa – the hall is accessible and a scent-free zone)

9:00-9:30: Registration and Refreshments - Canadian Legion, 294 Cyr Avenue, Ottawa (Vanier)

9:30-9:45: Welcome – Rhonda L. Hinther - Canadian Museum of Civilization, Sean McKenny - President, Ottawa Workers Heritage Centre, and Ken Clavette - Executive Director, Ottawa Workers Heritage Centre

9:45-11:30: Session I - “Other” Activisms in the Capital

Chair: Jennifer Anderson, Canadian Museum of Civilization

S. Holyk Hunchuck, Independent Scholar

Gilbert Levine, Research Director - Canadian Union of Public Employees (Retired)

Gary Kinsmen, Laurentian University, and Patrizia Gentile, Carleton University

Bob Acton, Former PSAC and Anti-Apartheid Movement Activist

11:30-12:00: Tour of the Ottawa Workers Heritage Centre (Sanna Guerin, Ken Clavette, Naomi Gadbois and others)

12:00-1:30: Session II: Remembering 1919: A Commemorative Luncheon

12:00-12:30: Lunch service, accompanied by the musical stylings of Teresa Healy

Art Exhibition and Sale – Bob Kell’s 1919 Collection

12:30-1:30: Remembering 1919 – Art, Exhibitions, Education, and Stories

Chair: Paul Moist, Canadian Union of Public Employees

Bob Kell, Artist

Rhonda L. Hinther, Canadian Museum of Civilization

Ken Clavette, Ottawa Workers Heritage Centre

Dorothy Stewart and Ruth Stewart Verger, Ottawa Storytellers

1:45-3:30: Session III: Organizing in the Capital

Chair: Bob Hatfield, Ottawa Workers Heritage Centre

Jean-Claude Parrot, Former Vice-President of the Canadian Labour Congress and former President of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers

Rosemary Warskett, Carleton University, Law Department Head

Gisèle Pageau, Human Rights Director - Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union

3:30-3:45: Refreshments

3:45: An Ottawa Labour History Walking Tour

Space on the bus for the walking tour and transportation back to downtown and Carleton is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Participants are advised to sign up early.

Workers Heritage Centre

306 Cyr Ave Ottawa K1L 7N7

613.742.1872