Collection search - Murray, Thomas Patrick - Interview

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Murray, Thomas Patrick - Interview

Item number (ISN):

176755

Series title:

Voice of the Pioneer

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1972

Item number (ISN):

176755

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:

1972

Description:

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Interview of Thomas Patrick Murray, age 92, of Madawaska, Ontario, who talks about his early life in the Madawaska Valley. Murray, who was born in a log shanty near Madawaska in 1880, explains that, as a child, he felt his family was well off having their own home, sufficient food and a few sheep even though there were no schools, churches or doctors and the nearest flour mill was located at Combermere. He recalls leaving home at 14 for his first job as a water boy for the crews building the Northern Temiskaming Railroad. He talks about the heavy manual labour involved in grading and laying the track using picks, shovels, scrapers, and wheelbarrows. Murray also talks about some of the men from the Madawaska Valley who became prominent in later years: George W. Leith, a worker on the N.T. Railroad gangs who became president of the same railroad; James H. Sanderson, another former railroad worker who became the biggest cheese exporter in Canada; and John Wesley Dafoe, an assistant to former prime minister Mackenzie King at the Imperial Conference in 1923.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Production and broadcast dates not indicated.~2. The interviewer is not identified.~3. The text published in the book "Voice of the Pioneer", Volume One, pp. 106-107, is based on this interview.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

176522

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1981-0111/103

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

652449

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

176755-1981-0111-103.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1981-0111/103

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

652450

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

176755-1981-0111-103.MP3

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

1981-0111/103

Status:

REF
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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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