Albert "Ginger" Goodwin (born Treeton, Yorkshire, England, May 10, 1887, died 1918) inspired the first General Strike in Canada on August 2, 1918 in Vancouver, British Columbia. This strike preceded the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919, an important moment in Canadian labour history.

The Vancouver general strike was a direct response to his murder by the Dominion Police and specifically one Deputy Dan Campbell. Ginger was murdered in the hills surrounding Cumberland, British Columbia on July 27, 1918 for avoiding the World War I draft. Ginger was examined and considered temporarily unfit for military duty because he was suffering from miner's Black Lung and bad teeth. The conscription board reversed its decision after Ginger led the strike at the Trail, B.C., lead/zinc smelter in 1917 for the eight hour day. As a pacifist opposed to the war, Ginger fled Cumberland for the bush where he successfully avoided capture for some months with the aid of his fellow workers from Cumberland.

Ginger was elected Vice-President of the British Columbia Federation of Labour in 1917 and secretary of the Trail Mill and Smeltermen's Union, Local 105 of the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers. Ginger also ran unsuccessfully for the Socialist Party of Canada in Trail in 1916.

The Ginger Group, a faction of radical Progressive and Labour Members of Parliament who advocated socialism, who named after Goodwin.