Membership booklet for International Hod Carriers Building and Common Laborers' Union of America. For Moses Williams.
Physical Condition
Fair
Material
paper
Condition Remarks
A little worn, rusty staples
Width
7cm
Length
10.5cm
Inscriptions
Membership Book No. 622 This is to certify that Williams, M. on Mar. 23, 1956 was last admitted as a member of Const. & Gen. Lab. Local Union No, 384 Kitimat, B.C., Canada
Accession Number
2019.62.10
Biographical Notes
Moses Williams attended the Kitamaat Village Day School, and then the Coqualeetza Residential School until the age of fifteen. Army recruiters conscripted Haisla men into the Canadian Army and Moses went in 1945. He was sent by train to the Canadian Forces' training camp at Maple Creek, Saskatchewan. He never shipped out overseas and the war ended. Moses and his wife Kay married in 1950, shortly after she arrived to teach at Kitamaat. They moved to Terrace in 1964. Moses worked as a carpenter, brick layer and fisherman. His wife Kay taught at Northwest Community College.