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Weatherhead, Mrs. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

379010

Series title:

[The Great War and Canadian Society]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974-06-19

Item number (ISN):

379010

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

THE GREAT WAR AND CANADIAN SOCIETY PROJECT

Accession:

1975-0098

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1974-06-19

Production company:

Opportunities for Youth

Production credit:

interviewer, Bradley K. Adams

Description:

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Interview of Mrs. Weatherhead, age 84, who was born near London, England in 1890 and came to Canada in 1911. Subjects discussed include: her education and taking a general office course there; moving to Canada with her family and settling in Windsor; taking a Salvation Army training course in 1914; the outbreak of the war, when she was stationed in Winnipeg; the enlistment of her brothers; facial wounds suffered by her youngest brother; her father’s work as a showcard painter; her father opening a business in Detroit; the Salvation Army asking her father to go to the U.S. to do Salvation Army work; how war changed soldier’s lives and affected their families; Salvation Army life; the internment of German Canadians during the First World War; the Salvation Army in British Columbia and how it got along with communities and socialists there; welfare work in Windsor during the 1930s; the Depression; the excitement of going to war and enlistment as a chance to get away from home; small flags placed in windows of Windsor homes to indicate that husbands and sons were away at war; the chill of seeing a telegraph boy bringing a message of injury or a death; getting the news by telegram that her brother was injured; work done by the Salvation Army to send kitting and other goods to soldiers overseas; how the war brought the Salvation Army to the notice of the public; the role of Salvation Army workers to help soldiers right on the battlegrounds, including recording a last message; the effect of the war on church attendance and family life; her brother’s injuries; the laziness among some people not willing to work; and the entry of women into the workforce, many just to get out of the house or because they enjoyed it. Some of these comments refer to postwar life.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. The interviews took place in 1974 and resulted in the publication of a book entitled "The Great War and Canadian Society" edited by Daphne Read - copyright 1978 - New Hogtown Press, Toronto.~2. Release forms, data sheets, and summary analysis/transcripts are available in binders labelled Opportunities for Youth - War and Canadian Society in VSA's audio-visual section.~3. Part of a series of recorded interviews with elderly citizens who lived in Canada during the period of World War I. The interview material consists of their opinions and observations about the war, the war years, and the effect on Canadian society during and after WWI.~4. The interviewee signed an agreement giving consent for a recording of this interview to be placed in the Public Archives of Canada for the purposes of historical research and also signed a publication agreement allowing any transcribed portions of the interview to be used in the book under the condition that no full names, addresses or phone numbers would be published.~5. Subject description is based on information found in the fact sheet, deposit agreement, publication agreement and summary analysis.~6. Mrs. Weatherhead's first name is not given in the interview or the related documentation.

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Vault ISN:

436273

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01355

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

438182

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2007-05-0021

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

61:10

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

736930

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1975-0098/030

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

1003785

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2007-05-0021

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

C01355

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2007-05-0021

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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