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Rutherford, Mabel Lucas - Interview

Item number (ISN):

168424

Series title:

Voice of the Pioneer

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1980

Item number (ISN):

168424

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

MCNEIL, Bill

Accession:

1981-0111

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1980

Production company:

Bill McNeil (Interviewer)

Description:

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Interview with Mabel Lucas Rutherford at age 93 about her turn-of-the-century childhood in Toronto's east end and her experiences overseas as a Canadian nurse in World War I. Rutherford recalls her early life in the village of Little York (now known as the Danforth) where her father ran a general store. She describes goods sold in the store, reads an 1894 price list, and tells of the store's failure due to the credit system. Other recollections of early Toronto include: her school days at Jarvis Collegiate; riding horse-drawn streetcars; the Massey family (including memories of actor Raymond and Governor General Vincent Massey as children); the importance of the church in her family life; early jobs; her decision to become a nursing student in 1908; her nurses training in tents outside of the Toronto Western Hospital. In 1914, Rutherford joined the #4 Canadian General Hospital Unit and was sent overseas on a leaky boat called the Kildonan Castle. She describes her experiences with other Canadian nurses at a British hospital in Rouyn, France caring for wounded soldiers from the front lines and, later, on a hospital ship amid a battle at Salonica. Rutherford's recollections include: poor conditions at Salonica and Malta; frostbite and gangrene suffered by injured soldiers during cold winter; a bombing raid by a German zeppelin; impresions of Lester B. Pearson as a young orderly; time spent in England; and her return to Canada in 1919. The interview concludes with a discussion of the Dumbells and the Queen's Hotel in Toronto.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Interview edited for broadcast on the CBC radio series VOICE OF THE PIONEER in five installments, on June 8, June 15, June 22, June 29, and July 6, 1980.~2. The text published in the book "Voice of the Pioneer", Volume Two, pp. 117-122, is based on this interview.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

176429

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1981-0111/003

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

650994

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

168424-1981-0111-003.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1981-0111/003

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

650996

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

168424-1981-0111-003.MP3

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

1981-0111/003

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

173959

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C09582

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

1990-0416/18
1990-0416/19
1990-0416/20
1981-0111/003
1994-0141/44
1994-0141/45
1994-0141/46

Status:

MASTER
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Open

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permisson of Bill McNeilCBC has rights only for one broadcast of VOICE OF THE PIONEER.Contact for Bill McNeil: Dawn McNeil Lemaire.

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