Fonds F3243 - Gordon Christie fonds

Gordon M. Christie, 1957-, was born and raised in Truro, Nova Scotia, and educated in Truro and at Mount Allison University in New Brunswick. He came to Calgary in 1979 and worked for Revelstoke Companies Ltd. and the Alberta Liquor Control Board before becoming Executive Secretary of the Calgary and District Labour Council from 1991 to 2008. Over and above his employment, Christie was a volunteer with dozens of labour organizations from the 1980s to the 2000s, including the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees, May Day coalition, program advisory committees at Mount Royal University, the University of Calgary and Bow Valley College, the United Way, and the Alberta Federation of Labour. He was also a volunteer with dozens of community social justice and political organizations including the Bridgeland-Riverside Community Association, the New Democrats, Action-Canada Network, Calgary Common Front, Calgary Voters' Association, Friends of the General Hospital, Calgary Coalition for Social Justice, Alberta Coalition Against Poverty and the Calgary Activist Network.

He ran in the provincial elections as an NDP candidate in 1989 and 1997. For his contribution to the community Christie was awarded a life membership in the Alberta Union of Provincial Employees (1992), the Canada 125 Commemorative Medal (1993), and the May Day Solidarity Award from the Alberta Federation of Labour (2001). He was an avid photographer and documented a host of political, labour and social justice rallies in Alberta from the 1980s to the 2000s.