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MacDonald, Ann - Interview

Item number (ISN):

380586

Series title:

[The Great War and Canadian Society]

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1974-07-31

Item number (ISN):

380586

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:

1974-07-31

Production company:

Opportunities for Youth

Production credit:

interviewer, William Richardson

Description:

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Interview of Mrs. Ann MacDonald of Toronto, who was born in Lindsay, Ontario in 1896. Her father was a lawyer with offices in Lindsay and Toronto. The family moved to Toronto. She talks about: comparing life in Lindsay to life in Toronto; her education at Huron Street School and Harbord Collegiate; her father’s expectation that his children would go to university; going to church; stopping her education in 1917 to work on a farm; working at the E.D. Smith canning factory; the farmers’ praise for the workers; her uniform; working all day and going out in the evening, so much that she wore herself out; giving up university; the lack of social life because the boys her age were all going overseas; sending parcels overseas; not really understanding what the declaration of the First World War was about; her father’s concern about the war because he remembered the South African War; her father’s comment that there were only two kinds of men – men who were giving their sons to the war and those who were making money out of it; two brothers in the army; letters from soldiers not saying much but when they mentioned friends who later ended up on casualty lists, this revealed that the soldiers were in the thick of the fighting; studying for examinations; anti-German sentiment; more about war work on a farm; Armistice Day celebrations in Toronto; people riding on top of streetcars during the celebrations; the false Armistice before the official announcement of the end of the war; studying household science at university; demobilization; the difficulties some veterans encountered in finding jobs after the war; her studies at Shaw’s Business College after she dropped out of university; working as her father’s secretary for four years; her marriage; the effect of the First World War on society; how the war disrupted society; how life was no longer carefree; keeping up friendships with people she met during her war work; more about her war work; knitting for the war effort; women’s auxiliaries looking after soldiers’ wives; and a debate during on women’s suffrage at her high school.

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:

437716

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02501

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

437717

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02502

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

737197

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1975-0098/252

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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