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Dramatis Personae and Prologue
From: Militants, Mobsters and Mavericks
$1.20
This prologue introduces the men and organizations that shaped Toronto’s building trades during the 1960s and 1970s. Fernandes recounts the Hogg’s Hollow tunnel fire of March 17, 1960, in which six workers perished beneath the West Don River. The disaster exposed the exploitation of Italian-Canadian tunnellers and became a catalyst for the union movement. Figures like Gerry Gallagher and Bruno Zanini challenged both corporate negligence and organized crime’s grip on the industry.
Contributors
Gilberto Fernandes
Gilberto Fernandes is a visiting scholar and instructor in the Department of History at York University. He is the author of several academic publications on the history of the Portuguese diaspora in North America, and Ontario's construction industry and building trade unions. He is an award-winning public historian with several credits, including documentaries, exhibitions, community archives, websites, podcasts, walking tours, and theatre. Among these are the award-winning project City Builders: A History of Immigrant Construction Workers in Postwar Toronto, as well as the Laborem Ex Machina: A History of Construction Machinery and Operating Engineers in Canada.
