Collection search - Miller, R.A. - Interview

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Miller, R.A. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

380543

Series title:

[The Great War and Canadian Society]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974-06-17

Item number (ISN):

380543

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:

2 of 2

Production date:

1974-06-17

Production company:

Opportunities for Youth

Production credit:

interviewer, Sharon Mintz

Description:

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Interview of R.A. Miller, age 83, who was born in Stratford, Ontario in 1891. His parents came to Canada in 1879. He talks about: his family background; his father’s move to Stratford; various jobs his father held; various Canadian cities where he lived; his education; selling subscriptions to the Winnipeg Free Press; an acquaintance, Mr. Wetton, who gave lectures in Britain for the railway to encourage people to come to Canada; the start of the First World War; his marriage; his joining the Canadian army and going overseas in March 1917; his decision to enlist in response to conscription and his belief that military service was a duty; his wife’s work for the Patriotic Fund, a fund set up to benefit families left behind; his wife’s job as teacher starting in 1918; immigration to Western Canada; the need to provide the immigrants with education; his wife’s job teaching in a Ukrainian community; his return to Canada in May 1919; his wife driving a horse and wagon to Winnipeg, with his son, to meet him; working with his wife at a two-room school; his job with the Consolidated Optical Co. selling glasses as a travelling salesman; his job with the Hudson Bay Company from 1926 to 1937; taking over his father’s bakery in Ontario because his father was elderly; his children; the Winnipeg General Strike; more on immigration to Western Canada; more about the Winnipeg General Strike; the Depression; helping people during the Depression; young unemployed men riding freight trains during the Depression; women’s suffrage; reading newspapers; going to the first movie house in Winnipeg, which had a hand made screen, a projector, folding chairs and 10-cent admission; playing sports before the war; adjusting to civilian life after the war; his family life; and his philosophy of life.

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:

437650

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01996

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

437651

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01997

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

737158

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1975-0098/207

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

737160

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1975-0098/208

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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