This is a Documentary done in Lockeport about the 1939 Lockout!! It is fantastic! Errol Williams and Norman Anderson were very much in the front of this labor dispute. Boy.. the Williams family are very passionate people! If ever there was a family to tell the stories of the history of the people and Town it would be them…great storytellers!….fantastic memories!
Errol and Leon William’s brother Victor Williams who will turn 88 in April is the only one still alive from a family of 12 children(9 boys & 3 girls) he has the most fantastic memory and is a wonderful person & story teller…right now I am in the process of recording all his stories(along with other elders in the town) that he wishes to tell me…which has so far been hours and hours and hours… I absolutely love to sit and talk with him.
In this generation respect for our elders has gone along the wayside ….. it’s not a case of “you should respect your elders”, it is a case of we are all people, and the older people have been around for longer, and while times have changed, they have seen a great deal more than the one view we have had as a generation born into this world of technology…..it’s called WISDOM….we as a generation don’t realize all the wisdom that can be and should be handed down from our elders..once they are gone it will be gone along the history that may never again be told!!!!
Enjoy the video!
( this video is just the Lockeport part of the Documentary, I have another 30 min of Lunenburg & NFLD labor disputes that I thought may be too long to put on here)
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Watched the video and it was excellent. I have an original 5 or 6 page booklet on the walkout. Bob williams was my wife’s uncle. Myrtle was Euwanna’s father’s sister’Ken
Julie, thanks so much for this documentary on the Lockeport Lockout. It means so much to Ed and me as fighters for labor unions ourselves and in light of what is happening to the state unions in Wisconsin right now. These men and women of Lockeport were just terrific in defending their rights.
Jane A.
What a find. Your doing what I always wanted to do when I was younger…recording the life stories, of the community elders.
Ahh the good life.
Julie, this is great!! @ 6:02 thats my grandfather, Hastings Williams from Brighton. I rember the day that he was asked to attend the lecture at the highschool. Even though George Perry wasn’t from Lockeport, he realised the importance of bringing the old timers into the classroom to explain to the kids (young’ens, as grandad called them) what it was like when he was growing up.
Thanks for this Julie. I have a book about the lockout that I was using with the grade 10 community -based learning class. This video really helped to make the words the students read come alive.
Terri Dean
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My grandfather was Ben MacKenzie, and I never knew him as my family moved west soon after I was born. My mother, Eileen MacKenzie, had told us about Grandpa and our Uncle Les MacKenzie being involved in the fisherman’s union in Lockeport, but I had no idea the extent of Grandpa’s involvement until recently. Thanks so much for making this documentary available. It really gives me more insight into this important labour relations history, as well as providing more information about my grandfather.