Ginger's Ballad
It鈥檚 been nearly a century since Albert 鈥淕inger鈥 Goodwin was shot and killed in the Cumberland bush on Canada鈥檚 Vancouver Island, but thanks to people such as playwright Elaine Avila, the legacy of the workers鈥 rights activist won鈥檛 soon be forgotten.
The Ballad of Ginger Goodwin, the play Avila penned after visiting Vancouver Island and realizing Goodwin鈥檚 story had been quelled in the decades since his death, tells the story of the titular character who, through a strike at a Canadian zinc smelter, helped to bring the World War I British war machine to a grinding halt.