Gareth it might be in the DT, I haven't looked, but in case it isn't, here it is and very appropriate for Labour Day. If you are interested I have the sheet music which I can scan and send.

The song is special to me because my great-grand Uncle was killed, at age 19 and my great grandfather injured in a deep mine explosion at Wellington No. 5 Pit in the area, which had subsequent profound reprecussions for our family:

Are You From Bevan?

Location: Vancouver Island
Date: 1912 to 1915 (see notes)
Informant: Words and Music by Phil Thomas
Source: Thomas, Philip J. Songs of the Pacific Northwest.
Saanichton, B.C.: Hancock House Publishers Ltd., 1979. 131.
Used with permission from the author.

Well, hello, stranger, how do you do?
There's something I'd like to say to you.
You seem surprised I recognize;
I'm no company stool but I just surmise
You're from the place I'm longing to be.
Your smiling face seems to say to me
You're from the island, your land and my land,
So tell me can it be-

Chorus
Are you from Bevan? I said from Bevan
Where those fields of stumps they beckon to me.
I'm glad to see you!
Tell me how be you,
And those friends I'm longing to see?
If you're from Union Bay or Courtenay or Cumberland
Any place below that Bevan second dam-
Are you from Bevan? I said from Bevan,
'Cause I'm from Bevan too!

Now it was way back in 19 and 12
Our gas committee was put on the shelf.
First we walked out, then we were locked out-
Then by a foul we were all but knocked out.
Our union miners faced guns and jail,
Hundreds of us were held without bail, But by August 1914 our labor they were courting,
But they blacklisted me-

Here is the link and histroical notes as well, but for some reason the page takes foever to load.