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Claudino de Melo interview
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1977-07 [date recorded] (Creation)
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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Portuguese in Terrace: a grocery store owner talks of immigration PERIOD COVERED: 1940-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Claudino de Melo (grocery store owner) discusses auditing bakeries in Lisbon; immigration (Oromocto, Halifax); speaking Italian and English. Work at Montreal Portuguese Club. Learning of Kitimat, "trainload" to Kitimat, 1955. Employers' recruiting methods. Work in smelter. Shortage of housing. Mrs. de Melo arrives via Bella Coola. First baby. Providing room for new people. Sagimat Construction houses were moved to Terrace. TRACK 2: Alcan made it easy to purchase houses, restricted improvements, had regulatory power. Beginning a specialty store in Kitimat, reasons for relocating to Queensway, Terrace. Buying and selling Imperial Hotel. Trying business in Okanagan. Portuguese fish and other specialty products for sale at the Riverside Market. Luso-Canadian Club of Kitimat. Daughter; learns languages, business practices. "Calling" (sponsoring) relatives.
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Terrace Public Library, 1977
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Reference cassette copy available in container 000443-180.
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Accession number(s): T3102
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speaker: Claudino de Melo, interviewer: Margaret Vanderberg