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THE GREAT WAR AND CANADIAN SOCIETY PROJECT

1975-0098

Enregistrement sonore

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1974-07-09

Opportunities for Youth

interviewer, Mary Tate

Interview of Cassie Ann Huxtable, age 89, who was born in Horning’s Mills, Dufferin County, in 1885. She talks about: how people were upset when the First World War broke out; how feelings ran pretty high in Canada during the war; various jobs at which she worked; doing domestic nursing; people’s lower expectations at that time, instead of “grabbing everything”; her education; patriotism; the danger of patriotism; German friends moving to the U.S. during the war; earning $15 a week at Neilson’s; the British character of Toronto in those days; studying at the Conservatory of Music; singing in German even though some people disapproved; hatred felt by a lot of people toward Germans during the war; opposition to playing Beethoven during that time; people’s actions on Armistice Day; bootlegging during Prohibition; and her quiet life without a lot of contact with many people.

English

Libre

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

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