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Anderson, Rita - Interview

Numéro d'article (ISN) :

379027

Titre de la série :

[The Great War and Canadian Society]

Niveau hiérarchique :

Pièce (Niveau acquisition)

Date :

1974-06-05

Numéro d'article (ISN) :

379027

Genre de documents :

Documents sonores

Trouvé dans :

Archives / Films, vidéos et enregistrements sonores

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Fonds/collection :

THE GREAT WAR AND CANADIAN SOCIETY PROJECT

No d'acquisition :

1975-0098

Support :

Enregistrement sonore

Partie :

1 of 1

Date de production :

1974-06-05

Compagnie de production :

Opportunities for Youth

Générique (équipe de production) :

interviewer, Lori Rotenberg

Description :

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Interview of Mrs. Rita Anderson of Toronto. She was born in 1902 in Toronto. Subjects discussed include: growing up in Toronto on Victoria Street, Church Street and Parliament Street; her father’s job driving a horse and wagon; her education; childhood games such as skipping; going to church with her families; attending the Fred Victor Mission where she saw films and sang songs; the strictness in school; quitting school after Grade 8 because the family could not afford to buy high school text books; her father starting his own business; more about religion and school; Victory Gardens during World War One; scarcity of sugar and other food during the war; the high cost during the war of food such as sugar and meat; raising chickens; more about childhood recreational activities and church-going; her father not wanting her mother to leave the house; her first job at MacLaughlin’s at Sherbourne and Queen Streets in Toronto; picking strawberries; removing stones from cherries; working conditions; Labour Day parades in the Depression; her Communist sympathies in the 1930s; going to work for the Canadian Bag Company making jut bags for sugar; details of working conditions; streetcar strikes; working conditions in the bag factory; her job at P.W. Ellis, on Wellington Street; factories making war materials; soup kitchens in Toronto; the poverty of her family; lining up for free food at the House of Industry; details of her job at a chocolate factory; the lack of unions; details of her job at a biscuit factory; her marriage in 1920; the scarcity of work in the 1920s; her husband’s jobs; her occasional work outside the home after she married; finding out that the First World War had broken out when she read about it in the Toronto Telegram; some friends killed overseas; her view that French Canadians should go to fight overseas too; watching soldiers training at the Armouries on University Avenue; recruiting problems as the war went on; looking down upon men who did not go tofight; more respect for volunteers than for conscripts; her mother not letting her father join up; celebrations when the war was over; casualty lists in the newspapers; people’s pride in the Canadians serving overseas; unemployment after the war; the veterans’ dissatisfaction with the government after the war because they had trouble getting jobs; more about growing up in Cabbagetown during World War One; the fight by veterans to get compensation for war injuries; and concern during the war that young boys were going overseas to be killed.

Langue :

English

Remarques :

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1. The interviews took place in 1974 and resulted in the publication of a book entitled "The Great War and Canadian Society" edited by Daphne Read - copyright 1978 - New Hogtown Press, Toronto.~2. Release forms, data sheets, and summary analysis/transcripts are available in binders labelled Opportunities for Youth - War and Canadian Society in VSA's audio-visual section.~3. Part of a series of recorded interviews with elderly citizens who lived in Canada during the period of World War I. The interview material consists of their opinions and observations about the war, the war years, and the effect on Canadian society during and after WWI.~4. The interviewee signed an agreement giving consent for a recording of this interview to be placed in the Public Archives of Canada for the purposes of historical research and also signed a publication agreement allowing any transcribed portions of the interview to be used in the book under the condition that no full names, addresses or phone numbers would be published.~5. Subject description is based on information found in the fact sheet, deposit agreement, publication agreement and summary analysis.

Détails de l'inventaire :

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No. de voûte (ISN) :

436344

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

C01373

Entrepôt :

GAT

Nombre de pièces :

1

Type de son :

R/R

Description technique :

POLY

Tiré de :

FROM LOANED MATERIAL

Statut :

MASTER

No. de voûte (ISN) :

438716

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

A1 2007-05-0043

Nombre de pièces :

1

Type de son :

CD

Durée :

79:28

Statut :

REF

No. de voûte (ISN) :

438719

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

A1 2007-05-0044

Nombre de pièces :

1

Type de son :

CD

Durée :

45:40

Statut :

REF

No. de voûte (ISN) :

736948

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

1975-0098/057
1975-0098/058

Entrepôt :

GAT

Nombre de pièces :

2

Type de son :

CASSETTE

Tiré de :

DEPOSIT

Statut :

ORIG

No. de voûte (ISN) :

1003807

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

A4 2007-05-0043
A4 2007-05-0044

Nombre de pièces :

2

Type de son :

CD

Tiré de :

C01373

Statut :

MASTER
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Conditions d'accès :

Libre

No de consultation :

A1 2007-05-0043
A1 2007-05-0044

Restrictions sur la consultation :

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Reproduction :

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

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