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LaChance, Jean Louis - Interview

Item number (ISN):

177090

Series title:

Voice of the Pioneer

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1987

Item number (ISN):

177090

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

MCNEIL, Bill

Accession:

1989-0460

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1987

Release date:

1987-12

Production company:

Bill McNeil (Interviewer)

Description:

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Unedited interview of Jean Louis LaChance of Baie Comeau who talks about the growth of Baie Comeau, Quebec from 1936 when the townsite was just beginning to be cleared. LaChance recalls arriving at the wharf at the future site of the town in 1936 along with hundreds of other men seeking work with the North Shore Pulp and Paper Company during the Depression. He talks about millionaire Colonel Robert [McCormack], the American owner of the company, who had planned the complete development of the town in advance. LaChance remembers the survey engineers hired by the company to blast areas of the bedrock for streets, foundations for buildings, and water and sewer facilities. At first the mills, bunkhouses and kitchens were erected followed by the houses, schools, churches and recreational facilities were erected by the company as the men settled in the new town with their families. He remembers the isolation felt by the first townspeople because the only route in and out of Baie Comeau for mail, supplies and passengers was by boat from Rimouski. As the years passed, LaChance saw telephones replace the telegraph, highways replace the water route and stores such as the Hudson's Bay Company offer supplies locally. Other topics discussed by LaChance are: the good relationship between the English and French-speaking families; his friendship with the family of Prime Minister Brian Mulroney; and his good fortune to witness, in a lifetime, the growth of a town from a clearing in the bush to a thriving town of 30,000 residents.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Notation on the tape box indicates the tape was dubbed on October 8, 1987.~2. Interview prepared for broadcast on the CBC Radio series VOICE OF THE PIONEER in three installments, on December 6, 13 and 20, 1987.~3. The text published in the book "Voice of the Pioneer", Volume Three, p. 93, is based on this interview.~4. The interviewee, who was born in 1906, was 81 years old at the time of the interview.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

177496

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1989-0460/128

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

324071

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 9903-0017

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

68:37

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1004362

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 9903-0017

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1989-0460/126
1989-0460/127
1989-0460/128

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1151730

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

177090-1989-0460-128.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

30:37

Made from:

1989-0460/128

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 9903-0017

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Bill McNeilCBC has rights only for one broadcast of each of the programs.Contact for Bill McNeil: Dawn McNeil Lemaire.

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