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  1. BornDonald Peter Garcia · October 29, 1926 · New Westminster, B.C., Canada
    DiedMay 10, 1995 (aged 68) · Vancouver, B.C., Canada
    Early life

    Don Garcia was born to mixed Hawaiian/Filipino father Peter Nahanee Garcia and Squamish mother Sadie Clark in New Westminster, BC in 1926. His paternal grandfather José Garcia was one of the early Filipin… See more

    ILWU years

    Garcia started longshoring in New Westminster in 1947. In 1963, he was elected President of ILWU Local 502; three years later he was arrested, convicted and sentenced to three months in jail, along with nine ot… See more

    Post ILWU career

    From 1982 to 1991, he was second vice-president of the British Columbia Federation of Labour (BCFL). He was also a founding member of the BC Federation of Retired Union Members, a group of union retirees who lend th… See more

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