Ginger
Description
One of British Columbia's most colourful figures was Albert "Ginger" Goodwin, a slight young English immigrant who arrived on Vancouver Island in 1910 to join hundreds of others slaving in the hellholes of the Cumberland mines. What he saw there made him one of the most effective labour leaders the province has ever seen, and led to an untimely and controversial end.
Susan Mayse combines the skills of novelist (Merlin's Web) and historian in this gripping biography of one of BC's most controversial labour figures, a hero among Vancouver Island miners and a dangerous subversive in the eyes of the authorities.
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Person
Susan Mayse is a fourth generation Vancouver Islander who grew up on stories of the mining towns of Cumberland, Bevan, Nanaimo, and Wellington. She has written for many national and international publications including The Daily Mail, The Toronto Star, and The Malahat Review. She is also the author of a prizewinning novel, Merlin's Web and Ginger: The Life and Death of Albert Goodwin, a BC Bestseller and winner of the Arthur Ellis Award for True Crime and the Edna Staebler Award for Creative Non-Fiction. She is the daughter of the late journalist and author Arthur Mayse.
Content
- Intro
- Map
- Title Page
- Copyright
- About This Edition
- Introduction: Armed and dangerous
- Chapter 1: A portrait
- Chapter 2: Cumberland and Union
- Chapter 3: Down pit
- Chapter 4: First we walked out . . .
- Chapter 5: Then we were locked out . . .
- Chapter 6: East One
- Chapter 7: Sam
- Chapter 8: Red
- Photos
- Chapter 9: Azure tusk
- Chapter 10: Box 312
- Chapter 11: Perseverance Trail
- Chapter 12: Blackberries
- Chapter 13: Aftershocks
- Chapter 14: Rex versus Campbell
- Chapter 15: Pulling pillars
- Afterword: 2018
- Acknowledgments
- Works Consulted
- Articles
- Books
- Government records
- Newspapers and periodicals
- Pamphlets
- Personal correspondence
- Theses, dissertations, manuscripts and other papers
- Transcripts (from taped interviews)
- Interviews
- Index
