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Rokeby-Thomas, Howard R. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

158598

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1975-05-21

Item number (ISN):

158598

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

FRONTIER COLLEGE

Accession:

1990-0214

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1975-05-21

Production company:

Marjorie Robinson (Interviewer)

Description:

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Interview by Marjorie Robinson of Reverend Howard R. Rokeby-Thomas of Kitchener, Ontario who talks about the four summers between 1929 and 1932 that he worked as a labourer-teacher for Frontier College. Rokeby-Thomas recalls his work in 1929 as a "top loader" on a stream hoist at the J. R. Booth Lumber Company in the Ottawa Valley, in 1930 his work as a miner at Levack, Ontario for the International Nickel Company, in 1931 as a farm worker and school teacher at the tiny settlement of Edlund founded by Frontier College as a "model development in Northern Ontario" and finally, in 1932 at a Trans Canada Highway construction camp in Ontario. Interview consists of discussion of the primitive living conditions and the hard physical labour expected of the labourers in the various camps and settlements, the low wages, and the many immigrants in the camp labour force. Other topics include the classes he taught in basic English and mathematics and Frontier College's role as the "forerunner in extramural education".

Language:

English

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Vault ISN:

177738

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1990-0214/35

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

168375

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C09110

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

1990-0214/33
1990-0214/34
1990-0214/35

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

168376

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C09111

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

1990-0214/35
1990-0214/36

Status:

MASTER
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