Uploaded January 2016 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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The film is footage of a May Day labour parade,. Men, women and children are seen marching with banners held high interspersed with a marching band with bagpipes.

If anyone knows which year this, any of the people in the parade or the street they are marching on, please let me know in the comments below.

The original film is from the City of Burnaby archives and can be accessed at this link: search.heritageburnaby.ca/permalink/archivevideo85205

I have added the background music

Some of the banners are:
The Communist Party of Canada
the Scandinavian Worker's Club
Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union, Ex-Servicemen's League
Canadian League Against War and Fascism
Fishermen's Legislative Program
Sailor's Union, B.C. Maritime Workers
Amalgamated Building Workers Union
Bakery and Confectionary Workers International Union of America
The Women's Labour League
Support the White Lunch Strike
Abolish Deferred Pay
Builders of British Columbia- Bill Bennett
Free Grange and Molland (anyone have any idea who this would be?)

This comes from the City of Burnaby Archives and was filmed either on May 1st 1936, 37, 38 or 39, home movie by Andy Digney. copyright belongs to them.

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Please watch: "Royal visit 1939 drive by on Kingsway at Marlborough in Burnaby May 29th"
youtube.com/watch?v=Db0ANezSxLo
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