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Beckett, Alice Jane - Interview

Item number (ISN):

379742

Series title:

[The Great War and Canadian Society]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974-06 ?

Item number (ISN):

379742

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:

1974-06 ?

Production company:

Opportunities for Youth

Production credit:

interviewer, Mary Tate

Description:

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Interview of Alice Jane Beckett, age 96, who was born in London, England in 1878 and who came to Canada in 1905. She talks about: coming to Canada to find work; working in a factory in England for 10 shillings a week; coming to Canada with the Salvation Army to work on a farm; moving in with a friend instead; her husband’s job at the gasworks; her job as a midwife; her early life in Canada; having trouble saving money in those early days in Canada; her 13 children; memories of fields and meadows in Toronto; her husband trying to join the army in the First World War but not being accepted because he had lost two fingers; her work as a midwife during the war; saving the life of a baby after the doctor had given up; learning to be a midwife from another midwife; how some people did not have any money to pay her for helping deliver a baby; the Salvation Army; more about the financial hardship she and her husband faced when they came to Canada; and the sense of community in her old neighbourhood.

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. Finding aid states that this interview was recorded in June or July 1974.~7. 1. The interviewee also talks about the Boer War and the Second World War.

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Vault ISN:

437639

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01985

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

737141

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1975-0098/187

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

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With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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