Volume 35, No. 3 BRITISH COLUMBIA Summer 2002 $5.00 HISTORICAL NEWS ISSN 1195-8294 Journal of the British Columbia Historical Federation Sugar and Strike Thomas Basil Humphreys Simpcw and Secwepemc Rambling in BC in 1887 Steamboats: James W. Trahey Award Winners 2001 Stuart Thomon foto, City of Vancouver Archives CVA 99-429 CVA Archives Vancouver City of Thomon foto, Stuart Above: This photo of two anymous young women; one holding a baseball, was taken during a picnic for employees of the BC Sugar Refinery on Bowen Island. In “Not Always Sweet,” starting on page 2, Janet Nicol writes about a bitter labour dispute at Benjamin T. Rogers’s sugar refinery during the First World War. Our Web site, http://www.bchf.bc.ca, is hosted by Selkirk College in Castlegar, BC British Columbia Historical News British Columbia Historical Federation Journal of the PO Box 5254, Station B., Victoria BC V8R 6N4 British Columbia Historical Federation a charitable society under the income tax act Published Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall. Under the Distinguished Patronage of Her Honour Editor: The Honourable Iona Campagnolo. PC, CM, OBC Fred Braches Lieutenant-Governor of British Columbia PO Box 130 Whonnock BC, V2W 1V9 Honorary President: Helen B. Akrigg, Phone 604.462.8942 Officers
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