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Labour Day
For Labour Day: BC Sugar employees filling and sewing bags of sugar. The photograph was taken in the 1930s. The refinery was built in 1890-1891 at the waterfront north of Powell Street. Some of the buildings still exist!
Source: CVA, 2011-092.1594)
