Hunted down as a draft dodger by Constable Dan Campbell, labor activist Ginger Goodwin was shot and killed by a single bullet to the throat on July 27, 1918 west of Cumberland.

On August 2, 1918, a funeral procession 1.5 kilometers long formed on Dunsmuir Avenue and proceeded to the Cumberland graveyard. As recorded by Susan Mayse, author of the book Ginger: The Life and Times of Ginger Goodwin, elder miner Ben Horbry witnessed the procession:

"The casket was held shoulder high right through Cumberland. When one bunch of men got too tired, another bunch went in. He was so highly thought of, you know. A man has to be thought of when he's accused of a crime and killed as a criminal and yet the whole town turns out for the funeral and he's packed shoulder high through the town.

To this day, the spirit of Ginger Goodwin lingers. Roger Stonebanks affirms its enduring socio-political influence in his Cumberlander article titled Ginger Lives!

The very kind of forces that railed against Goodwin 90 years ago ago have been reflected since then. In 2001, for example, one provincial government (BC Liberal) changed the decision of another provincial government (NDP) and removed the “Ginger Goodwin Way” signs from the Inland Island Highway above the cemetery where he rests.

But, Ginger lives on in the hearts and minds of the many and diverse people who agree with his ideas for a better world and the struggle to achieve it. And one day, the Ginger Goodwin Way signs will be returned to their original and rightful place on the Inland Island Highway where it passes Cumberland, above the village cemetery.