Remembering the impact of 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak on B.C. workers

As the threat of the coronavirus looms over Canada, one doesn’t have to look too far into history to see what happened when another flu-like illness hit the country and B.C. From 1918 to 1919 Spanish Influenza killed an estimated 50- to 100-million people worldwide, including 50,000 people in Canada. An estimated 4,000 people died … Continue reading Remembering the impact of 1918 Spanish Flu outbreak on B.C. workers