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Burns Lake mayor protesting doctor's strike
- Date Range
- May 2-3, 1998
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Scope and Content
- Photo of Paul Jean, the mayor of Burns Lake, protesting the lack of movement during a 14-week-long rural doctors' strike. This demonstration was held in front of the Roi Theatre during the North Central Municipal Association conference held there. The doctors' strike had begun with physicians in Bu…
- Collection
- Interior News fonds
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Creator
- Karen Kwan
- Fonds No.
- BF5
- Series No.
- S4
- Item No.
- P8705
- Accession No.
- 2020.36
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph; colour
- Scan Resolution
- 300 dpi
- Date Range
- May 2-3, 1998
- Custodial History
- Photo was originally taken by Interior News staff for publication in the paper. It was retained by the News until being transferred to the Bulkley Valley Museum, likely in 2007, as part of a large donation of photographs, negatives, and textual records. Item was stored in Room 6 until being found in collections and accessioned in Fall 2020.
- Scope and Content
- Photo of Paul Jean, the mayor of Burns Lake, protesting the lack of movement during a 14-week-long rural doctors' strike. This demonstration was held in front of the Roi Theatre during the North Central Municipal Association conference held there. The doctors' strike had begun with physicians in Burns Lake, Vanderhoof, Mackenzie, Fort St. James, and Fraser Lake, and revolved around financial compensation for on-call emergency services.
- Arrangement
- Item was found in an envelope with other photographs from the same date. All photographs in this series have been removed from original order and arranged in the order in which they were scanned.
- Geographic Access
- Smithers, B.C.
- Notes
- Appears in the Interior News, May 6th 1998. Negative available.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Less detail