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This is the story of the Vancouver Waterfront - the ships, the docks, the men. It is not primarily a history of the companies - stevedoring, shipping and railways - that operate on the waterfront. Nor is it primarily a record of historical events, of dates and places. It includes some of these but is much more. It is primarily a story of the men who worked on the waterfront, who they were, where they came from, the lives they led, the conditions under which they laboured and the struggles in which they engaged to establish good working conditions on the docks. It is a story of people, of working people, of longshoremen as told by themselves. --Introduction