 | Red Travellers: Jeanne Corbin & Her Comrades Subjects: Corbin Jeanne 1906–1944; Communist Party of Canada -- Biography; Corbin Jeanne 1906–1944 -- Friends and associates; Communists -- Canada -- Biography; Corbin's "red itinerary" began when she joined the Young Communist League in Edmonton. She later held party posts across the country through her involvement with The Worker in Toronto, a French communist paper in Montreal, the Workers' Cooperative in Timmins, and a lumbermen's strike in Abitibi - where she was jailed for taking part in a protest. She died of tuberculosis in London, Ontario, in 1944. Andrée Lévesque is the author of Making and Breaking the Rules: Women in Quebec, 1919-1939. She teaches history at McGill University. |
