Labour history Website to launch on Wednesday
EDMONTON – The Alberta Labour History Institute will launch its new Website at an open house Wednesday afternoon.
The Website — found at www.labourhistory.ca — will go online the same day. The goal of the new Website, ALHI says, is to allow Albertans to “punch in and explore a history untold.”
The open house will run from 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the offices of the Health Sciences Association of Alberta, 10212 – 112 Street in Edmonton.
The program will include a “Big Screen” introduction to the Website that will begin at 5 p.m.
Members of the Alberta labour community are welcome to attend the event.
ALHI was formed in 1999 by a group of trade unionists, community archivists, archivists and historians to collect, preserve and publicize the stories of Alberta’s working people and their organizations.
To this end, ALHI undertook several activities, including development of the Website, organizing an annual Labour History Day, producing a labour history calendar, creating a labour history map, and capturing the voices and stories of dozens of Albertans on film through its Oral History Project.
The goal of the Website is to serve as one of the main portals for the preservation and dissemination of the history of Alberta’s working people, their trade unions and other organizations.
Wednesday’s launch marks the culmination of seven years’ work collecting materials and stories and interviewing trade union leaders.
The work was made possible in part by funding from Heritage Canada and Athabasca University, as well as a number of unions.