The Alberta Labour History Institute collects, preserves, and disseminates the stories of Alberta’s working people and their organizations. This website includes full transcripts, podcasts, and profiles of our interviewees. It also includes videos, booklets, themed essays, annual calendars, and a link to a book created by ALHI. To learn more about us, visit About. For help with navigating the site, visit How To Use This Site.
What’s New?
New and updated worker profiles: Donna Wilson; Marle Roberts; Peter Neuschafer; Edith Chu; Irma Belton; Muriel Turner-Wilkinson
Videos: Precarious Workers: Exploitation and Fightback
Booknotes: Reviews of: Revolution Songs by Carissa Halton; Capitalism and Colonialism: The making of modern Canada 1890–1960 by Bryan D. Palmer
International Women’s Day 2026
Activism to reshape workplaces to be fairer, safer, and more inclusive
Across Alberta, on construction sites and in hospital rooms, women are advocating, organizing, and reshaping workplaces to be fairer, safer, and more inclusive. International Women’s Day (March 8) is a moment to honour the diversity, leadership, and resilience of women. Here we feature women whose struggles were not only against sexism in Canadian society, but also racism, and, for some, hostility to immigrants.
On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the journeys and voices of Beryl L. Scott, Cecile Sangster-Locker, Cynthia Palmaria, and Doreen Wabasca, echoing the importance in the labour movement of activism in support of individuals facing vulnerabilities because of intersecting oppressions. Their stories serve as a reminder that women’s leadership is central to shaping a world where every worker has dignity, rights, and status. When we understand each other’s stories, we can stand together to organize–across borders, communities, and sectors–for a future rooted in solidarity.
To read the full International Women’s Day 2026 feature, click here.
