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Steelworker Legacies: Objects and Stories

March 22, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm

Venue

WAHC

51 Stuart Street
Hamilton, Ontario L8L 1B5 Canada

Steelworkers (active or retired) and their families are invited to participate in a storytelling event. Bring an object, photograph or memento connected to steelwork. Over refreshments, share the significance of your object and tell a story connected with it.

With participants’ permission, we will photograph your objects and collect your stories for inclusion in our Community Gallery, What We Inherit: Steelworker Legacies.

IMAGE: Natalie Hunter’s keychain, from an employee BBQ at Stelco, Lake Erie works, 1995. Image courtesy of Natalie Hunter.


WAHC wishes to acknowledge the Ontario Arts Council, the City of Hamilton, the Province of Ontario, CUPE National, the Canada Council for the Arts, Canada’s Building Trades Unions, OPSEU/SEFPO and Teamsters Local Union 879 for their support of our exhibitions and ancillary programs.

For more information, please contact Sylvia Nickerson, Programming and Exhibitions Specialist, at (905) 522-3003 ex. 29 or sylvia@wahc-museum.ca