I heard last night via twitter that our old friend Ramsay Cook had died on Thursday. You can find a notice in today’s Globe and Mail here. Ramsay was a true friend to the new styles of history that began percolating through this land in the early 1970s. You can read our account of what his support meant to an early, threadbare labour history bibliography project here. We met on many occasions afterwards. There were tentative plans to put together a collection of Phillips Thompson’s writings at one time; sadly these never came to fruition. I have written elsewhere how Thompson’s writings might have helped us understand the “unprecedented” fix that Stephen Harper and Tiny Mike got us into. On one occasion, Ramsay helped me find paying contract work when I desperately needed it in the mid-1970s—an intervention that helped keep New Hogtown Press afloat at a crucial stage in its history. A sad day. We will miss him.
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