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Elizabeth Ruggles Macdonnell interview
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1981-01-19 [date recorded] (Creation)
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Recorded for the Provincial Archives of British Columbia's Sound Heritage Series.
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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Journalism in B.C. : interview with Elizabeth Ruggles Macdonnell RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1981-01-19 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Elizabeth Ruggles Macdonnell describes her memories of the newspaper business in the inter-war years. Mrs. Macdonnell discusses her career with the Victoria Daily Times: her love of writing; family's disapproval of her work on a newspaper; growing up as a socialite; began as Ken Drury's assistant; writing for the magazine section; being one of the few reporters with some education in journalism; Nancy Hodges; her dislike of the society page; World War II; changing the society page into a report of what women were doing for the war effort; conditions at the Times; newspaper guild. TRACK 2: Mrs. Macdonnell discusses: newspaper union (cont'd); anecdote about holding hands in the park with Jim Nesbitt; interviewing Emily Carr; why she had to retire once she was pregnant. (End of interview)
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Peter Stursberg, 1980-1981
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- Copying Restriction: None.
- Use Restriction: For private and educational use only. Not for broadcast or commercial use without permission of the B.C. Archives.
- Copyright Status: Copyright British Columbia Archives.
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Recorded as research for Sound Heritage Series no. 35, "Extra!: When the Papers Had the Only News".
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Accession number(s): T3818
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speaker: Elizabeth Ruggles Macdonnell, interviewer: Peter Stursberg
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- Carr, Emily (Subject)
- Victoria Daily Times (Subject)