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Read, Helena - Interview

Item number (ISN):

379023

Series title:

[The Great War and Canadian Society]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974-07-28

Item number (ISN):

379023

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:

1974-07-28

Production company:

Opportunities for Youth

Production credit:

interviewer, Bradley K. Adams

Description:

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Interview of Miss Helena Read, who was born in Stratford, Ontario in 1879. Among the subjects discussed are: going to Kitchener, Ontario to train as a nurse, to 1913; going overseas on May 1, 1915 as a nurse, one of 95 nurses assembled in Ottawa from all over Canada; working in a hospital in England; nursing in France; her return to Canada in July 1917; going to London, Ontario to work in the Queen Alexandra Sanatorium; being demobilized from the Christie Street Hospital in Toronto in 1920; how the soldiers she treated did not complain; the town of Stratford and a major strike there; back to her recollections of the First World War; support for the militia and the war effort in Stratford; reasons why people enlisted; changes in medicine and nursing during the war; how interns did some of the work nurses formerly had to do; the amount of responsibility doctors gave to the nurses in the military hospitals; treating a pneumonia patient; going back to London, Ontario; recollections of Sir Adam Beck; and her decision to go to the U.S. to find work because she was having trouble getting a job in Canada after the war.

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.

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Vault ISN:

436280

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01370

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

1984-0114/3
FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

438470

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2007-05-0038

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

30:25

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

736943

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1975-0098/049

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

1003802

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2007-05-0038

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

C01370

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2007-05-0038

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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