MuseumCity Builders

Exhibits

Exhibits featured with audio

• Founding the Laborers' Local 183
• "Mr. Safety's" phone and bed sheets
• Bruno Zanini's charisma
• Charles Irvine's shillelagh
• Picket signs
• Bricks
• Marino Toppan's "La Voce del Lavoro" radio show
• Threats of Violence
• Marino Toppan's "The Voice of Labour" book
• Spoil
• Augusto Cameirão's bricklayer tools
• Luis Silva's cement-finishing tools
• Luis Silva's lunchbox
• Angelo Zaccaria's rodmen tools
• Frank Drea's social justice journalism
• Gerry Gallagher and the founding of Local 183
• The Hoggs Hollow tragedy
• Organizing tunnellers
• Gerry Gallagher's health and safety campaign
• "The jungle"
• The Brandon Union Group's founding
• The Brandon Union strikes of 1960 and 1961
• Winning the 1961 strike
• Apartment building boom
• New building techniques
• Concrete forming union wars
• Organized crime
• Highways 400 & 401
• Mobsters and bombs
• University-Spadina subway line
• Don Mills
• Spadina Expressway/ Allen Road
• Yonge subway line
• Deadly high rise construction
• York Centre Ballroom
• Brandon Hall
• Bloor-Danforth subway line
• Queen's Park
• Flemingdon Park & St. James Town
• Lansdowne Theatre
• "La Voce Del Lavoro"
• Treating "the Bends"
• Mass arrest of 1961 strikers
• Labour and the CNE grounds
• Union Station
• Gardiner Expressway & Don Valley Parkway
• CN Tower
• Downtown towers
• Municipal politics
• City Morgue and Coroner's Office
• Leslie Street Spit