Early one March morning in 2007, three women packed with fourteen others into a poorly maintained and unsafe work van lost their lives when the driver lost control on Highway 1 near Abbotsford.
These senseless deaths sparked a province-wide review of farm transportation and a coroner’s inquest that gave rise to stronger rules, regulations, and enforcement, making farm work safer. The Golden Tree now stands in the Friendship Garden by the Clearbrook Library, as a monument to those women, and the sacrifices of their families and friends as a powerful reminder of the consequences of unsafe work.
http://www.goldentree.ca/ and Abbotsford Community Services – Legal Advocacy Program
These photos were taken on the day of the unveiling of the Golden Tree on October 3, 2015
