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  1. 1
    For a link to the digitized images, please see the "Finding aid" section of this record.
    1 digital object(s)

    Young Women's Christian Association of Canada fonds [multiple media]

    Archives / Collections and Fonds
    Fonds
    **
    Textual material, Photographs, Art, Objects (including medals and pins), Sound recordings, Architectural and technical drawings, Moving images
    Item ID number:
    100112
    Date:
    1870-1991
    Source:
    Private
    Reference:
    R4957-0-4-E, MG28-I198
    Young Women's Christian Association of Canada fonds [multiple media]. Business records, 1936-1977 Public Affairs Committee, 1945-1980 Adult education 
  2. 2
    Interview of Harry Gairey Sr. by an unidentified female interviewer
    1 digital object(s)

    Interview of Harry Gairey Sr. by an unidentified female interviewer

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417384
    Consultation:
    open
    Reproduction access:
    No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
    Item number (ISN):
    417384
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    Harry Gairey Sr, who was born in Jamaica in 1898 and immigrated to Toronto in 1914, speaks at length about his experiences as a porter for the Canadian 
  3. 3
    Interviews of Coward King, Clyde Livingston Arthur, George Forray, Vincent Elaine Russell Padmore, and Clarence Coleman by Stanley Grizzle.
    1 digital object(s)

    Interviews of Velma Iris Coward King, Clyde Livingston Arthur, George Forray, Elaine Russell Padmore, and Clarence Coleman by Stanley Grizzle

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417383
    Item number (ISN):
    417383
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    This sound recording contains interviews with five individuals. Mrs. Coward King speaks to the work done by the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters and its 
  4. 4
    Interview of Mr. Grayson by an unidentified female interviewer.
    1 digital object(s)

    Interview of Mel Grayson by an unidentified female interviewer.

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417380
    Item number (ISN):
    417380
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    Side 1: Mel Grayson provides a detailed discussion of porters‹ € experiences, including job descriptions for the roles of Porter Instructor, 
  5. 5
    Transcript: Labchuk, Camille. Speaking on behalf of the animals.
    1 digital object(s)

    Labchuk, Camille. Speaking on behalf of the animals

    Archives / Collections and Fonds
    File
    **
    Moving images, Textual material, Sound recordings
    Item ID number:
    5858744
    Date:
    August 2016
    Source:
    Private
    Reference:
    R16853-54-8-E, Volume number: 1, File number: 84
    ... young age that taught me a woman can do whatever she wants and can accomplish a lot," she has been quoted saying. In 2006, after graduating with a 
  6. 6
    Transcript: Pauly, Daniel. How many fish in the sea?.
    1 digital object(s)

    Pauly, Daniel. How many fish in the sea?

    Archives / Collections and Fonds
    File
    **
    Moving images, Textual material, Sound recordings
    Item ID number:
    5858771
    Date:
    October 2011
    Source:
    Private
    Reference:
    R16853-81-0-E, Volume number: 2, File number: 31
    ... young cannot know, this has taken a real setback. But with regard to the natural world, this is particularly bad. I have a colleague who has studied in the 
  7. 7
    Interviews of Roy Williams, Willis Richardson, Cordie Williams, and Odell Holmes by Stanley Grizzle.
    1 digital object(s)

    Interviews of Roy Williams, Willis Richardson, Cordie Williams, and Odell Holmes by Stanley Grizzle.

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417389
    Consultation:
    open
    Reproduction access:
    No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
    Item number (ISN):
    417389
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    This sound recording contains interviews with four individuals. Roy Williams recounts key union leaders who were integral in the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car 
  8. 8
    Interview of Mr. Bill Overton by and unidentified woman.
    1 digital object(s)

    Interview of Mr. Bill Overton by and unidentified woman.

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417397
    Consultation:
    open
    Reproduction access:
    No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
    Item number (ISN):
    417397
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    Mr. Bill Overton begins by describing an early and memorable trip on the Grand Trunk Railway to Niagara Falls, and then recounts some of the common train 
  9. 9
    Interview of Mr. Raymond Coker by an unidentified female interviewer. <28mn>
    1 digital object(s)

    Interview of Raymond Coker by an unidentified female interviewer. «28mn»

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417381
    Item number (ISN):
    417381
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    Raymond Coker speaks at length about life as a Black man and porter before and after the implementation of the 1953 Fair Employment Practices Act
  10. 10
    Transcript: Rees, William. Measuring our ecological footprint.
    1 digital object(s)

    Rees, William. Measuring our ecological footprint

    Archives / Collections and Fonds
    File
    **
    Moving images, Textual material, Sound recordings
    Item ID number:
    5858774
    Date:
    August 2010
    Source:
    Private
    Reference:
    R16853-84-6-E, Volume number: 2, File number: 16
    ... young new carrots, little potatoes, fresh lettuce, and I realized that there wasn't a single thing on the plate that I hadn't had a hand in growing. I 
  11. 11
    Interviews of Ivy Lawrence Mayniar and Oliver Davis by Stanley Grizzle.
    1 digital object(s)

    Interviews of Ivy Lawrence Mayniar and Oliver Davis by Stanley Grizzle.

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417387
    Consultation:
    open
    Reproduction access:
    No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
    Item number (ISN):
    417387
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    This sound recording contains interviews with two individuals. Ivy Lawrence Mayniar speaks about her education to enable her to practice law, 
  12. 12
    Transcript: Atwood, Margaret. Telling tales from the future.
    1 digital object(s)

    Atwood, Margaret. Telling tales from the future

    Archives / Collections and Fonds
    File
    **
    Moving images, Textual material, Sound recordings
    Item ID number:
    5858696
    Date:
    December 2019
    Source:
    Private
    Reference:
    R16853-6-8-E, Volume number: 1, File number: 102
    ... young people, the under 20s or let us even say the under 25s." She says this group has recently shown they "are just not going to put up with this inaction 
  13. 13
    Transcript: Goodall, Jane. The animals we are.
    1 digital object(s)

    Goodall, Jane. The animals we are

    Archives / Collections and Fonds
    File
    **
    Moving images, Textual material, Sound recordings
    Item ID number:
    5858721
    Date:
    April 2011
    Source:
    Private
    Reference:
    R16853-31-7-E, Volume number: 1, File number: 22
    ... young English woman named Jane Goodall set out to study chimpanzees in the forests of Tanzania, she broke all the rules about the study of animals in the 
  14. 14
    Transcript: Bowles, Stella. The teen who cleaned a river.
    1 digital object(s)

    Bowles, Stella. The teen who cleaned a river

    Archives / Collections and Fonds
    File
    **
    Moving images, Textual material, Sound recordings
    Item ID number:
    5858704
    Date:
    April 2019
    Source:
    Private
    Reference:
    R16853-14-7-E, Volume number: 1, File number: 99
    ... young person-can make a very big difference. Stella's grade 6 science project that tested the fecal bacteria present in the river near her home, eventually 
  15. 15
    Transcript: Hill, Annie and Robertson, Trevor. Living lightly on the sea.
    1 digital object(s)

    Hill, Annie and Robertson, Trevor. Living lightly on the sea

    Archives / Collections and Fonds
    File
    **
    Moving images, Textual material, Sound recordings
    Item ID number:
    5858731
    Date:
    July 2011
    Source:
    Private
    Reference:
    R16853-41-X-E, Volume number: 1, File number: 24
    ... young husband, Pete Hill, she set off from England in an absurdly small twin-hulled catamaran, bound for the West Indies. The voyage made them realize that 
  16. 16
    Interview of Mr. Green by an unidentified female interviewer
    1 digital object(s)

    Interview of Mr. Green by an unidentified female interviewer

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417379
    Consultation:
    open
    Reproduction access:
    No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
    Item number (ISN):
    417379
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    Side 1: several former porters discuss living and working conditions during the Depression and Second World War and how this job allowed for upward mobility 
  17. 17
    Interviews of Clarence Est, Joseph Morris Sealy, Evelyn Braxton and Velma King by Stanley Grizzle.
    1 digital object(s)

    Interviews of Clarence Nathaniel Este, Joseph Morris Sealy, Evelyn Braxton, and Velma Iris Coward King by Stanley Grizzle

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417386
    Item number (ISN):
    417386
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    This sound recording contains interviews with four individuals. Clarence Nathaniel Este speaks to the important role played by the Brotherhood of Sleeping 
  18. 18
    Interviews of Helen Williams Bailey, Otis Brown, Aurelius Bennett, Jesse Samuel Hobson, Laura Elizabeth Gilberry, and Robert Jamerson by Stanley Grizzle
    1 digital object(s)

    Interviews of Helen Williams Bailey, Otis Brown, Aurelius Bennett, Jesse Samuel Hobson, Laura Elizabeth Gilberry, and Robert Jamerson by Stanley Grizzle

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417400
    Consultation:
    open
    Reproduction access:
    No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
    Item number (ISN):
    417400
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    Helen Williams Bailey discusses her role as first president of the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters in Winnipeg
  19. 19
    Interviews of Leo Gaskins, William C. Kingfish Wright, and Leonard Oscar Johnston by Stanley Grizzle
    1 digital object(s)

    Interviews of Leo Gaskins, William C. Kingfish Wright, and Leonard Oscar Johnston by Stanley Grizzle

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417394
    Consultation:
    open
    Reproduction access:
    No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
    Item number (ISN):
    417394
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    ... young adult as a member of the Harlem Aces, an all-Black orchestra that originated in Toronto, was excluded from the Toronto Musicians' Union, and travelled 
  20. 20
    Interviews with two unidentified interviewees by an unidentified interviewer.
    1 digital object(s)

    Interviews with two unidentified interviewees by an unidentified interviewer.

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417390
    Consultation:
    open
    Reproduction access:
    No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
    Item number (ISN):
    417390
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    Unknown male interviewee: A broad overview of the rhythms and experiences of porter life, which notes the camaraderie among and between porters
  21. 21
    Interviews of Mr. Leonard O'Johnson and Helen Wachter by Stanley Grizzle.
    1 digital object(s)

    Interviews of Mr. Leonard O'Johnson and Helen Wachter by Stanley Grizzle.

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417396
    Consultation:
    open
    Reproduction access:
    No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
    Item number (ISN):
    417396
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    This sound recording contains interviews with two individuals. Mr. Leonard O'Johnson speaks about the history of union organizing and how his affiliation 
  22. 22
    Interview of Mr. Bill Overton by an unidentified female interviewer.
    1 digital object(s)

    Interview of Bill Overton by an unidentified female interviewer.

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417382
    Item number (ISN):
    417382
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    Bill Overton speaks about his every day and labour experiences on and off the railway from 1909 to 1954. Immigrating from Cambridge, Massachusetts, 
  23. 23
    Interviews of Theodore Stanley King, Melvin Crump, and Essex Silas Richard “Dick” Bellamy by Stanley Grizzle.
    1 digital object(s)

    Interviews of Theodore Stanley King, Melvin Crump, and Essex Silas Richard “Dick” Bellamy by Stanley Grizzle.

    Archives / Film, Video and Sound
    Item (Accession level)
    Sound recordings
    Item number (ISN):
    417403
    Consultation:
    open
    Reproduction access:
    No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions
    Item number (ISN):
    417403
    Consultation copy number:
    A1 2014-04-0008
    Theodore Stanley King relays his experiences as a sleeping car porter while also speaking to those of his father. In addition to discussing the Brotherhood 
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