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FINLAYSON, Judith

1996-0289

Enregistrement sonore

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1993-04-13

Judith Finlayson (Interviewer)

Oral history interview held in Vancouver, British Columbia by Canadian author Judith Finlayson with Pam Fleming about her past experience as a wilderness maintenance and construction worker. She explains why she always refused to do traditional women's work which brought her to work for Parks Canada from 1975 to 1983, building hiking trails, doing back-country patrol and wilderness maintenance in the federal parks. She describes the adventurous aspects and the physical challenges of working in this field, and relates a few anecdotes about incidents of sexual harassment at that time. To conclude, she explains how, in 1988, she ended up working for a non-profit organization committed to social changes and fighting poverty which today gives her a sense of doing something worthwhile rather than just exploiting her body.

English

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