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Garner, Hugh - Interview

Item number (ISN):

243232

Series title:

The Days Before Yesterday : Struggle for Nationhood

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1972-12-16

Item number (ISN):

243232

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, TELEVISION: DAYS BEFORE YESTERDAY, THE

Accession:

1996-0018

Media:

Film

Part:

3 of 3

Production date:

1972-12-16

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

photography, Wilf Doucette; interviewer, Cameron Graham

Description:

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Interview conducted for the television series THE DAYS BEFORE YESTERDAY : STRUGGLE FOR NATIONHOOD, of author Hugh Garner (1913-1979). He describes in detail his life during the Depression when he travelled as a hobo throughout North America. He recalls the hunger, the beatings from railroad "bulls", and the generosity of families who would occasionally feed him at their back door. Garner talks about the Industrial Workers of the World union, known as the Wobblies, and travelling in the box cars, where the men would talk about women and gambling. Garner states that he was apolitical at that time but later began to read communist and socialist dogma. Garner worked in two R.B. Bennett work camps, one in Kamloops, British Columbia, and one in Trenton, Ontario, during the 1930s. He also describes how he was sent to Spain in 1937 by an international communist organization to fight in the Spanish Civil War, although Garner never joined the Communist Party. He describes joining a battalion which defended the line to Madrid from February to June, rested in July and went into the Battle of Brunete. He thought that the Loyalists were wonderful people fighting against fascist savages and he wanted to go and help. Garner met Dr. Norman Bethune in Spain and again at the League Against War and Fascism. Garner talks about joining a Canadian Army artillery battalion in Toronto. When his battalion went into service overseas during the Second World War and he was left behind he obtained an honourable discharge. He hitchhiked to Halifax and joined the navy, which he describes as "an egalitarian society". <1h 10mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. THE DAYS BEFORE YESTERDAY : STRUGGLE FOR NATIONHOOD was broadcast in seven parts on November 4, 11, 18 and 25, 1973 and December 2, 9 and 16, 1973.~2. Transcript available in the Visual and Sound Archives Division for camera rolls 221 to 227.~3. Workprints.~4. Excerpts of this interview were used in the third program, THE BEST OF TIMES ... THE WORST OF TIMES.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

286465

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9607-0610

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

286466

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9607-0611

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

286468

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9607-0612

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

286470

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9607-0613

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

286472

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9607-0614

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

286473

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9607-0615

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

286474

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9607-0616

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

286475

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9607-0617

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

286476

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9607-0618

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

286477

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9607-0619

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

286478

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9607-0620

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

286479

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

9607-0621

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MAG TRK

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

286480

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9607-0622

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

286481

Format:

FILM

Location number:

9607-0623

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SIL

Stock:

WRK PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER
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Open

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

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