CHARLES E. BROOKS

Peace Fountain, Reaume Park, facing Detroit and the Detroit River, Windsor

Built in memory of Charles E. Brooks, this magnificent water display is appropriately named the Peace Fountain. One-time president of the UAW (United Auto Workers) Chrysler Local 444 and an outstanding trade unionist and community-minded citizen, he was murdered on 17 January 1977 in the union office by a person alleged to be of unsound mind.

Brooks had a long history of uncompromising militant leadership of auto workers for decent wages and working conditions, pioneering many of the gains cherished by working people today across Ontario. He was a strong champion of his community and an early active environmentalist. His wider interests included an intense preoccupation with the issue of world peace, believing that all trade unionists and men and women of good will should work towards making the world a safer place to live in for future generations.