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Rose, Charles - Interview

Item number (ISN):

379299

Series title:

[The Great War and Canadian Society]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974-07-16

Item number (ISN):

379299

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:

1974-07-16

Production company:

Opportunities for Youth

Production credit:

interviewer, Deirdre Bekerman

Description:

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Interview of Charles (Charlie) A. Rose, age 78, of Toronto, who was born in Edinburgh, Scotland in 1896. He came to Canada in 1920. He talks about: his parents; his childhood; several financial reverses suffered by his family; working as an apprentice printer at the age of 12; the chores he had to do as an apprentice printer, feeding the horse, lighting the lamps and putting a fire under the glue-pot; not being able to enlist because he was not yet age 18; his employers’ refusal to give him back his job; getting into the army in 1915; being sent to an Indian unit to build up the unit’s strength; stealing food from the fields; being in a gas attack; officers putting oats in their boots to dry them out; suffering boils; being in a military hospital; getting blinded in one eye; being discharged; working in paper mills; hearing about Canada from Canadians in the army; how the British thought Canadians were wonderful at the start but were not so happy about them later because the Canadian soldiers were paid better and threw their weight around; glowing tales by the Canadians about Canada; being sent by the Overseas Settlement Department to Montreal; finding out that he had to be a strike breaker so he went to Toronto instead; his former work for suffragettes in England; his involvement in Working Men’s Clubs; working for the Socialists in electoral politics; comparisons between the job situation in Canada and England; changes in postwar life; negotiating for the bookbinders’ union; trying to get equal pay for equal work; strikes; changes in technology; clothing in Europe compared to Canada; sweatshops; getting a job at Thompson and Norris; working for Saturday Night magazine until there was a strike; a union organizer taking off with the money; going to Winnipeg to work as a harvester; farming in western Canada; farm work; helping a farmer; plowing; going back east because he feared for his sanity if he stayed on the farm; getting a job back at Saturday Night; then going to the Methodist Bookroom; starting a welfare program; working for a union; signs that read “No English Need Apply” because English workers would not work for low rates and also were union men; names representing ethnic slurs; the early days of progressive politics; a cooperative building; the Toronto Street Railway fare; going to Nickelodeon shows and vaudeville shows; the 1929 stock market crash; his marriage; how the war disrupted family life and brought about a loss of respect; recreational activities such as singing around a piano, going to corn roasts and picnics and on sleigh rides; food and cooking; medical care; life in the 1930s; city politics; restaurants; the problem of trying to get a job at Eaton’s department store if you were not Irish or at city hall if you were not an Orangeman; racetracks and more about living conditions in the 1930s.

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.The tape runs too fast but is intelligible.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

436399

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01413

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

439397

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2007-06-0029

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

79:28

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

439398

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2007-06-0030

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

68:30

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

737086

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1975-0098/121

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

1003849

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2007-06-0029

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

C01413

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1003850

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2007-06-0030

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

C01413
C01414

Status:

MASTER
Ordering and viewing options

Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2007-06-0029
A1 2007-06-0030

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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