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MCNEIL, Bill

1989-0460

Enregistrement sonore

1 of 1

1985 ?

Bill McNeil (Interviewer)

Interview of 80-year-old Ted Watt, who worked as a newspaper reporter starting in the 1920s in Western Canada. He talks about: his early life in Edmonton, his parents' careers as journalists, and Alberta politics and politicians in the early decades of this century.~Watt describes some of the events he covered as a newspaper reporter, including the discovery of pitchblende by Gilbert Labine at Great Bear Lake, Northwest Territories in 1930 and bush pilot Wop May's first flight to Aklavik in 1929. He also shares his memories of other people instrumental in the development of the Canadian North, including bush pilot Punch Dickins and geologists McIntosh Bell and Charles Camsell. Watt wrote about the opening up of the North. He also says that he began working as a freelance writer prior to the Depression, making good money and racking up debts. He then had to work as a prospector's assistant in the North.

English

Libre

A1 9902-0048

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

with written permission of copyright owner : with permission of Bill McNeilCBC has rights only for one broadcast of each of the programs.Contact for Bill McNeil: Dawn McNeil Lemaire.