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McClure, Sarah - Interview

Item number (ISN):

379295

Series title:

[The Great War and Canadian Society]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974-07-09

Item number (ISN):

379295

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:

1974-07-09

Production company:

Opportunities for Youth

Production credit:

interviewer, Deirdre Bekerman

Description:

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Interview of Miss Sarah McClure, age 85, of Toronto, who was born in a farm in Woodbridge,York County in 1888. She talks about: her childhood; her education; the importance of church; square dances at her home and people having to stay overnight because they were snowed in; the disadvantages of farm life; there being “no rich farmers in those days”; selling eggs for 5 cents a dozen; going to Humberside Collegiate; attending the model school and earning a third-class certificate; going to St. Lawrence Market; earning $350 in her first year as a teacher; teaching at country schools; life in Toronto; recollections of where she was when the First World War was declared while she was at summer school in Guelph, when someone came to the door with the Toronto World newspaper with the news that war had been declared and someone began singing God Save the King; war news in the newspapers; rising food prices; how farmers were fortunate because they had their own gardens; food rationing; the patriotism in Ontario; cheering for enlisted men; teachers working as farmerettes; city folk having trouble adjusting to unfamiliar work; her father’s support for the Tories; electioneering; the excitement of getting the vote; views on suffragettes; farmers having a hard time getting workers to help with the harvest; knitting clubs; being president of her local knitting club; working to gather hospital supplies; how a German dentist in Toronto lost all his business and moved to Muskoka; going with her two sisters to city hall to watch the Armistice celebrations and attending a church service at night; going to North Toronto Station to meet the troop trains; marching to the Exhibition Grounds; a memorial service for the war dead; news that a boy was declared dead and then was discovered to be alive; teaching her students about war; munitions profiteering; the impact of the war on soldiers, who had seen too much to go back to their old way of life; a military hospital in Toronto; nurses who had returned from overseas replacing women who had been nursing in Canada; the influenza epidemic; changing attitudes about women; how the new affluence earned from munitions work gave women more independence; greater freedom in the postwar world; how family discipline loosened when the men came home from war; the arrival of radio and how this was a boon for children living in isolated areas; radio programs such as farm serials, Amos and Andy, and Kate Aitken; eating lunch at Eaton’s for 25 cents; buying books; church as a family event; how a lot of soldiers became teachers and how they got promoted more easily than others because their wartime experience made them more interesting.

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. Subject description is based on information found in the fact sheet, deposit agreement, publication agreement and summary analysis.~4. 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~5. 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.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

436398

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01412

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

439360

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2007-06-0026

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

74:48

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

737082

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1975-0098/117

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

1003846

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2007-06-0026

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

C01412

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2007-06-0026

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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