Collection search - Ruggles, Frank M. - Interview

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Ruggles, Frank M. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

379736

Series title:

[The Great War and Canadian Society]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974-06-05

Item number (ISN):

379736

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

THE GREAT WAR AND CANADIAN SOCIETY PROJECT

Accession:

1975-0098

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1974-06-05

Production company:

Opportunities for Youth

Production credit:

interviewer, Mary Tate

Description:

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Interview of Frank M. Ruggles, age 85, who was born in Bridgetown, Nova Scotia in 1889. He worked as a banker, broker, miner and prospector. During the First World War he was a pilot with the British air force, stationed outside London. He talks about: his comfortable family background; horses owned by the family; going to school in Bridgetown and at King’s Collegiate; his first job, at the Bank of Montreal; working conditions and salary at the bank; his being rejected by the army when the First World War broke out, because he had a foot injury; joining up in the fall of 1916; becoming a pilot; going to New York; joining the British Mission; many Canadians joining the British air force; his initial training in Leaside; more pilot training in England; taking about a month to learn how to fly; service with Squadron 141; moonlit German raids on London; flying in fog and trying to land; avoiding trees; delivering Bristol fighters to France; going to Winnipeg after the war and getting a job as a broker, selling land containing gold mines; the Winnipeg General Strike; back to his wartime service; fog in London; going to the theatre in London on nights when he did not have to fly; how Bridgetown did not change during the war years; joining the army out of a sense of duty; patriotism in Canada; his trying to get into the army several times but the army would not take him, so he joined the British air force; and his marriage four years 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.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

437637

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01983

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

737135

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1975-0098/181

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Open

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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