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Brett, Thomas Earl - Interview

Item number (ISN):

379737

Series title:

[The Great War and Canadian Society]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974-06-10

Item number (ISN):

379737

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:

2 of 2

Production date:

1974-06-10

Production company:

Opportunities for Youth

Production credit:

interviewer, Mary Tate

Description:

Interview of Thomas Earl Brett of North York, age 84. He was born in Wellington County, Ontario in 1890. He talks about: his father’s farm; having to shift for himself at an early age because of his father’s death; his primary school and high school education; working for a widow farmer when he was a teenager; applying for a job at a bank and being sent to work for banks in northern Ontario locations such as Cochrane; Russians on railway construction crews; a Russian who ran a restaurant in the community; the fire which destroyed part of Cochrane in 1911; moving to Porcupine shortly after the fire; working in banks in Porcupine, North Bay and New Liskeard; his wages; the failure of a bank in 1925; working in Toronto from 1912 until the First World War broke out; his joining the Queen’s Own Rifles; practising in the evenings at the armouries; and the Depression.

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:

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:

437638

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01984

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

737137

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1975-0098/182

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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