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Jones, Mrs. Rose E. - Interview

Numéro d'article (ISN) :

379046

Titre de la série :

[The Great War and Canadian Society]

Niveau hiérarchique :

Pièce (Niveau acquisition)

Date :

1974-07-16

Numéro d'article (ISN) :

379046

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 :

2 of 2

Date de production :

1974-07-16

Compagnie de production :

Opportunities for Youth

Générique (équipe de production) :

interviewer, Lori Rotenberg

Description :

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Interview of Mrs. Rose E. Jones of Toronto, age 76, who was born in Northampton, England in 1898 and came to Canada in 1905. She talks about: going to school in England; her parents; her father’s decision to move to Canada because he could not find enough work in England; his worked as a foreman; the passage to Canada in steerage; settling in Toronto; her father’s job with the Toronto Street Railway; her mother’s factory job as a designer of blouses and pinafores and as a worker in a fish and chip shop; the lack of appreciation by Canadians for immigrants; English districts of Toronto; going to Lord Dufferin School; leaving school at age 11 to look after her little brothers because her mother was ill; her mother’s work as a midwife from 1916 through the Depression; the role of midwives; the relationship of midwives to doctors; her mother’s willingness to challenge doctors if she felt they did not do things correctly; word-of-mouth as the means of how people found out about midwives; things she did for fun as a child; going to the movies at a theatre at Spadina and Queen Streets; the difficulty of trying to describe what a movie was to her grandmother; newspapers read by the family; her first job working in a suspender factory; working conditions at the factory; asking for a raise and quitting because it was only 25 cents; working for a book binding company; working for a company making fancy stationery; being laid off because of an economic depression in 1913; finding another job; her father’s work as a shoemaker and his involvement in a union; her membership in a book binders’ union; her wages; women’s roles in the union; working as a stock keeper at a calendar company; working conditions; problems she experienced with deteriorating eyesight; switching to housework on the advice of a doctor; learning to do housework and be economical; not being class conscious; quitting work when she got married; her recollection of seeing young men marching off to war; her boyfriend in the 19th Battalion; the prestige of having a boyfriend who was a soldier; writing letters to soldiers; her father’s enlistment in the 58th Battalion; the family’s belief in England; her mother’s worry when the father went to enlist; an uncle in the same battalion; the feeling that if the Kaiser was not stopped, no one would be saved; her not knowing any German people; conscription; a boyfriend who did not enlist because he was a farmer and had to work on the farm and then do work packing boxes for soldiers; the high cost of food; the job she had after she married, doing the books for a livery business; buying a car instead of having a child right after marriage; newspaper coverage of the war; her father’s injury at Ypres and returning to Canada in 1917; knitting and rolling bandages during the war; writing letters to soldiers; doing Red Cross work; not talking to fellow workers about the war because it was discussed enough in the newspapers and people who were grieving for lost loved ones did not want to hear about it; Armistice Day celebrations on Yonge Street; being grabbed and kissed during the celebrations even though she was a married woman; her father getting the run around when he tried to get compensation for his war injuries; his father becoming a florist-gardener and fisherman; the adjustment to civilian life by her father and uncles; her father’s lack of regret that he enlisted; people wanting to put the war out of their minds; the lack of criticism of the government about World War One; postwar life; her liking radio; religious beliefs; her husband having to work at two jobs, on the farm and at the packing house; antagonism toward Catholics; the importance of her extended family of aunts, uncles and grandparents to her outlook; the difference between her outlook and the behaviour of her younger brothers, who were raised alone by her mother when their father was away; and her support for conscription to reinforce the troops.~She also talks about: her work as a book-keeper; rationing faced by businesses, such as confectioners who tried to get sugar; the sense of duty because that is how people were brought up; her mother not having enough money to buy war bonds; parades and marches to encourage people to buy bonds; newspaper reports on the war; her work on the farm; not being part of the flapper era; the lack of leisure time; rainy days as days to do housework; her husband selling produce at the market; the closeness of family and neighbours in the farm community; the impact of the war in making Canada more homogeneous and more welcoming to English immigrants, reading about suffragettes; postwar suffering by veterans; more on her work in the book binding factory and about women in the work force.

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) :

436378

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

C01392

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) :

436380

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

C01393

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) :

439158

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

A1 2007-06-0004

Nombre de pièces :

1

Type de son :

CD

Durée :

71:23

Statut :

REF

No. de voûte (ISN) :

439162

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

A1 2007-06-0005

Nombre de pièces :

1

Type de son :

CD

Durée :

78:00

Statut :

REF

No. de voûte (ISN) :

736984

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

1975-0098/089
1975-0098/090

Entrepôt :

GAT

Nombre de pièces :

2

Type de son :

CASSETTE

Tiré de :

DEPOSIT

Statut :

ORIG

No. de voûte (ISN) :

1000333

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

A4 2007-06-0005

Nombre de pièces :

1

Type de son :

CD

Tiré de :

C01392
C01393
C06037
C10295

Statut :

MASTER

No. de voûte (ISN) :

1003827

Support :

SOUND

Détails de l'inventaire :

A4 2007-06-0004

Nombre de pièces :

1

Type de son :

CD

Tiré de :

C01391
C01392
C01393

Statut :

MASTER
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Conditions d'accès :

Libre

No de consultation :

A1 2007-06-0004
A1 2007-06-0005

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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