Collection search - Todé, Charles E. - Interview

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Todé, Charles E. - Interview

Item number (ISN):

380581

Series title:

[The Great War and Canadian Society]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974-07-17

Item number (ISN):

380581

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:

1974-07-17

Production company:

Opportunities for Youth

Production credit:

interviewer, William Richardson

Description:

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Interview of Charles E. Todé, age 68, who was born in England in 1906 and came to Canada in 1912. He talks about: living in the area of Dundas East; his schooling; attending the Settlement House on Queen Street; services at the Settlement House, including activities in the gymnasium, crafts and a medical clinic for the working poor; church services; the Fred Victor Mission; picnics and Christmas parties; the St. George’s Society; assistance the family received from various social services in Toronto; his father’s work in an aircraft factory during the First World War; postwar economic decline; his after-school jobs; his mother’s work as a midwife, a cleaner and other jobs; various jobs he had with commercial printing companies; technological changes in the printing industry; Cabbagetown; living conditions in his neighborhood, with its outhouse and community pump; his job delivering newspapers; belonging to a cadet troop at school; the cadets carrying torches from the Canadian Pacific station when the 4th CMR returned; Armistice Day; giving school children certificates for their contribution to the war effort, such as saving paper; his Second World War military service; his father taking him to the Regent Street Theatre to see films of the war; his apprenticeship as a typographer; linotype; unions in the printing shops; joining the union at a print shop in 1927; more about his family’s impoverished living conditions when he was growing up; soup kitchens during the war; a clothing exchange at school during the war; more about his father’s work; the role of the church in his family’s life; parades by the Great War Veteran’s Association (GWVA) to demand more benefits for veterans; postwar adjustment by veterans to civilian life; his father getting laid off; his marriage after he returned from the Second World War; getting paid more at his job than he got in the army; his being fed up with the printing trade due to lack of chances for promotion; going into the army as an escape and to see his relatives in England; and sports activities 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.

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Vault ISN:

437699

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02498

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

437701

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02499

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

737192

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1975-0098/244

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

737193

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1975-0098/245

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CASSETTE

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG
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