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Carter, Chesley William - Interview

Item number (ISN):

389337

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1979-02-19

Item number (ISN):

389337

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

STURSBERG, Peter

Accession:

1979-0032

Media:

Sound

Part:

2 of 2

Production date:

1979-02-19

Production company:

Peter Stursberg (Interviewer)

Production credit:

interviewer, Peter Stursberg

Description:

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Interview of Chesley William Carter, senator and former Liberal Member of Parliament for Burin-Burgeo; by author Peter Stursberg, about: Chesley William Carter; his family background; his memories of life in Newfoundland; Newfoundland circa the 1850s to the 1900s; the Newfoundland fisheries, immigrants and early settlement; the Newman Company; their "plantations" in Newfoundland; Gaultois, Newfoundland; Pass Island, Newfoundland circa the 1900s; Newfoundland outports; the early Newfoundland economy; the title barter system in the outports; traditions of "squaring up" and "fair time"; Carter’s his education in a one-room school in Pass Island; the Royal Readers; the Newfoundland Department of Education; the Council of Higher Education (CHE); transportation in Newfoundland; his enlisting in the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during World War I at the age of 14; his wartime experiences; his impressions of the war; the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during World War I; his decision to become a teacher; his experiences teaching in Newfoundland circa 1922-1929; and continuing his education at Memorial and Dalhousie universities from 1929 to 1933. <2h 2mn>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Transcript available in the Peter Stursberg fonds.~2. Access restrictions for the sound recording are the same as access restrictions for the transcript.~3. There is no release form on file at Library and Archives Canada for this interview.~4. First interview in a series of four.~5. Recorded by Peter Stursberg in Ottawa for the joint Library of Parliament-Public Archives of Canada oral history project.~6. Chesley William Carter died on 14 January 1994.

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Vault ISN:

459418

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C01485

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

GENCAT identity number:

MSS 22018

Reproduction access:

Crown copyright : no donor restrictions : with written permission of interviewee

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