Director

Ron lives in Victoria within the traditional territories of the Kosapsum (Esquimalt) and Songhees First Nations.

Ron is a writer, historian and documentary filmmaker. He holds a PhD in history from Simon Fraser University and is the retired national communications director of the Canadian Union of Public Employees.

His latest book, Printer’s Devils (Caitlin, 2023), is a social history of the Trail Creek News. He is also the author Smelter Wars (UTP, 2022), a history of the wartime struggle to form a union, Radical Rag (Steel Rail, 1988), a history of the 19th-century Canadian labour press, and Underground Times (Deneau, 1989), the story of Canada’s 1960s counterculture.

Ron’s documentary films include Joe Hill’s Secret Canadian Hideout, Remembering Salt (about a Canadian screening of the banned movie Salt of the Earth), and Codename Project 9 (about Canada’s role in making the atomic bomb).

Born and raised in the West Kootenays, he is married and now lives in Victoria within the traditional territories of the Kosapsum (Esquimalt) and Songhees First Nations.