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Woodard, Eileen - Interview

Item number (ISN):

380523

Series title:

[The Great War and Canadian Society]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974-06-24

Item number (ISN):

380523

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:

1974-06-24

Production company:

Opportunities for Youth

Production credit:

interviewer, Catherine MacLeod

Description:

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An interview with Eileen Woodard, who was born in Toronto in 1899. She talks about: her parents; attending Clinton Street public school; starting to work at age 12 or 13 at Eaton's department store; her grief when her older sister died of tuberculosis at age 23; the outbreak of the First World War; her older brother's enlistment; her brother getting gassed during the war; her work at the church, knitting for the war effort; how war changed society; how there were fewer dances and parties; childhood games; wartime food shortages; her marriage while she was still in her teens; her not working outside of the home after her marriage because her husband did not want her to; how she met her husband; a friend of hers whose father was a German painter and whose house was searched regularly; hostility in the neighbourhood toward a German family; maintaining her friendship with the German girl; her husband's opposition to women getting the vote; and the happiness people felt during the Armistice celebrations.

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:

436411

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01425

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

737100

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1975-0098/136

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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Conditions of access:

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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