Collection search - Lowther, Sue - Interview

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Lowther, Sue - Interview

Item number (ISN):

176759

Series title:

Voice of the Pioneer

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1971

Item number (ISN):

176759

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

MCNEIL, Bill

Accession:

1981-0111

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1971

Description:

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Interview of Sue Lowther, age 97, of Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, who talks about her youth in Cape Traverse, P.E.I. and her career as a nurse. Lowther recalls her father's work as a telegraph operator at Cape Traverse where Morse code messages were received from overseas and relayed to district telegraph offices around the province. She also recalls that she and the other children in the family were assisting their father in transmitting messages in Morse code at the age of eight because her father was responsible for incoming and outgoing messages 24 hours daily. When she was dismissed from her job in 1904 as a telegraph operator by a new telegraph director who did not want female operators, Lowther left P.E.I. and persued her medical training and her subsequent nursing career in the United States. She discusses the influenza epidemics in the 1930s and the resulting deaths among pregnant women. She also recalls nursing some patients infected with smallpox during her nursing career which she carried on until her retirement at age 80.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. The interviewer is not identified.~2. The text published in the book "Voice of the Pioneer", Volume One, pp. 90-92, is based on this interview.~3. Information on the tape box indicates the tape was dubbed on May 26, 1971.

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

176526

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1981-0111/108

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

652477

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

176759-1981-0111-108.WAV

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

BWF

Made from:

1981-0111/108

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

652478

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

176759-1981-0111-108.MP3

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

MP3

Made from:

1981-0111/108

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

202576

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

C11103

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Made from:

1981-0111/108
1989-0460/016

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction access:

with written permission of copyright owner : with permisson of Bill McNeilCBC has rights only for one broadcast of VOICE OF THE PIONEER.Contact for Bill McNeil: Dawn McNeil Lemaire.

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