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Phimister, Zac Sinclair - Interview

Item number (ISN):

351496

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1965-05

Item number (ISN):

351496

Type of material:

Sound recordings

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

CANADIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION, RADIO: SPANISH CIVIL WAR ORAL HISTORY TAPES

Accession:

1981-0117

Media:

Sound

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

1965-05

Production company:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

Production credit:

interviewer, Mac Reynolds

Description:

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Interview of Zac Sinclair Phimister, Deputy Minister of Education for Ontario, about his experiences in Spain during the Spanish Civil War. He was studying at the London Institute of Education in the summer of 1938. He had been a school inspector. While there, he applied to the Quakers for a job with the Quaker unit in Spain during his vacation. The Quakers gave him a test and then sent him by truck to Spain. The trucks were under cover because of the threat of sabotage by rightists in France. He describes the work of the Quakers in Spain. They were trying to feed refugee children. This was in December 1938. The Quakers did the same sort of work on the Franco side of the line. He desribes the trip through France to [Perpinion]. Everything moved at night because of the bombing during the day. The Quakers operated out of a large house in Barcelona. He was boarded by the Quakers in a Spanish home. He was sent to work for the Loyalist side. Phimister comments on how the Quakers raised money to support their work. He was a volunteer but gave a donation to the Quakers. He had to pay his own way into Spain. He describes how the Quakers distributed food to approximately 100,000 children, and looked after young children and older orphans. Phimister also speaks about the shortage of food in Barcelona toward the end of the war, the bombing of Barcelona and the number of Spaniards who worked with the Quakers. He also comments on the feeling of defeat typical of the period of December 1938 and January 1939, when Franco was advancing. He returned to England to continue his studies.

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. Recorded on one track.~2. Copy of tape held by CBC Radio Archives in Toronto.~3. Description based on photocopy of notes entitled Oral History Interview Analysis, in collection file.

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Vault ISN:

392197

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

1981-0117/14

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

ORIG

Vault ISN:

396699

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A1 2004-05-0030

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Duration:

27:58

Status:

REF

Vault ISN:

1002308

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

A4 2004-05-0030

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

CD

Made from:

1981-0117/14

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1092692

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

C02894

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

R/R

Technical description:

POLY

Made from:

1981-0117/13
1981-0117/14
1981-0117/15

Status:

MASTER
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Conditions of access:

Open

Consultation copy number:

A1 2004-05-0030

GENCAT identity number:

GAD 0FD547

Restrictions on consultation:

To be Determined / À déterminer

Reproduction access:

With written permission of Copyright Owner / Avec la permission écrite du détenteur des droits d'auteur

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