Recherche dans la collection - Cormier, Leo - Interview

MCNEIL, Bill

1989-0460

Enregistrement sonore

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1984-12-30/1985-01-06

Bill McNeil (Interviewer)

Interview of Leo Cormier, one of the first people to settle in the community of Baie Comeau, Quebec. He talks about: the start of the settlement in the late 1930s; the construction of the town; unions, salaries and working conditions of the population, which consisted mostly of men at the beginning; the hiring of teachers and the area's main industry, newsprint.~Cormier also talks about his background, including his childhood and education in New Brunswick. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts and a teacher's diploma but because of the Depression he could only obtain work as an office boy, earning 25 cents an hour.~Returning to the subject of the early development of Baie Comeau, Cormier says that there was little crime. The community was isolated until the construction of the highway and the airport in the 1940s. Baie Comeau got its mail from airplane drops and Cormier tells of finding mail on top of a spruce tree three months after it was dropped.

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.