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Claim Game

The high stakes of fraudulent identity

But Blind They Were

The fallacy of an empty continent

The Canadian Conversation

A Polish journalist’s perspective on residential schools

Bryan D. Palmer

Bryan D. Palmer, long associated with the journal Labour/Le Travail and chair of the Canadian Studies Department at Trent University, is author or editor of 20 books on working class history and related subjects. His most recent, Toronto’s Poor: A Rebellious History, co-authored with Gaetan Heroux, was published by Between the Lines in 2016.

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Bryan D. Palmer

Fighting the Klan

Exploring a little-known episode in Canadian labour history April 2016
Princeton, 1932 to 1933. The Ku Klux Klan torches a sinister cross; local vigilantes kidnap a labour organizer; the town seethes with sensationalist attack on Soviet-inspired Reds. This is not Woodrow Wilson’s Princeton; these are not United States happenings. Rather, this all takes place in an industrial hamlet in southern British Columbia’s Similkameen Valley, site of a number of bitter strikes by the Mine Workers Union of…