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FRONTIER COLLEGE

1987-0493

Enregistrement sonore

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1976-05-11

Marjorie Robinson (Interviewer)

Interview by Marjorie Robinson of Mr. R.J. Champion of Victoria, British Columbia on his experience as a labour-teacher for Frontier College in 1938 and 1939. Champion recalls his work as a "bull cook" (chopping wood, hauling water, serving tables) at the Pulpwood Supply Company, a logging camp near Longlac, Ontario. The primitive living conditions without electricity or running water and the long working day from "dawn to dusk" for $40 per month are described by Champion. Discussion follows of his instructional classes after working hours when he taught English, arithmetic and Canadian geography to about a dozen mainly Finnish and Swedish immigrant labourers. Champion describes how he occupied a corner of the bunkhouse as his makeshift classroom and the supplies sent to him by Frontier College consisting of a blackboard, map, books and magazines for a small library and paid him about $40 per month for his teaching.

CHAMPION, R.J.

English

Libre

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