Labour Day or Eight Hour Day

by | 8 Mar, 2025

Originally known as Eight Hour Day, this celebrates the achievement in 1856 of a reduction in working hours to eight hours per day (six days per week) for certain sections of the building trades. The proposal was initiated by the Collingwood branch of the Operative...

International Women’s Day 2025

by | 2 Mar, 2025

It was International Women’s Day in 2023 that inspired us to prepare a new page on our website, dedicated to Collingwood women. During the course of 2023 we added several new sections to the page, as well as incorporating an edited version of the names of...

A different way of looking at history?

by | 26 Feb, 2025

Inspired by the work of Australian-Vietnamese poet author Nam Le and his ‘Collingwood’ song cycle poem about Collingwood’s history, we plan to add a fresh page to our website with the theme of Collingwood Literature and Culture. Members have already started compiling...

Vale Richard Peterson

by | 19 Jan, 2025

We were deeply saddened to hear of the recent death of Richard Peterson. In the 1990s we engaged Richard to write a history of churches in Collingwood and appreciated the commitment and enthusiasm which he brought to the project. The resulting book was entitled...