Item AAAB0101 - John (Jack) McNeill interview

CALL NUMBER: T0098:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John (Jack) McNeill : pioneer life in Ontario and Saskatchewan RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-15 SUMMARY: Jack McNeill was born in 1885 and discusses life in Dunchurch, Ontario (1885-1903). Homesteading at Herbert, Saskatchewan in 1903 and the first winter spent there. Discusses methods of farming, house building, etc.; CALL NUMBER: T0098:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John (Jack) McNeill : homesteading in Saskatchewan RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-16 SUMMARY: Jack McNeill discusses homesteading in Herbert, Sask. in 1903: crop planting, winters, Mennonite emigration 1904-5, social aspects, schooling, ranch hand in Saskatchewan, and own homestead in 1908. CALL NUMBER: T0098:0003 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John (Jack) McNeill : early life on the Canadian prairie RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-18 SUMMARY: Jack McNeill discusses starting a homestead, building sod houses, barns. He corrects some errors made in dates and schooling on the first and second interviews (T0098:0001 and 0002). These errors were made because his birth was never recorded (so when he thought he was 18 years old he was actually 21!). CALL NUMBER: T0098:0004 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John (Jack) McNeill : a cowpoke enlists in the army RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-18 SUMMARY: Jack McNeill moves to Montana as a horse rancher and enlists in the American army. He discusses training, boxing in army, and experience of a "riot between the white and black", Washington, D.C. CALL NUMBER: T0098:0005 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John (Jack) McNeill : ride 'em cowboy RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-08-25 SUMMARY: Jack McNeill discusses release from the army after guard duty; his return to Montana to claim his horses which had scattered after the war; contracts typhoid fever and recovers in his parent's home in Manitoba. Most of the tape deals with professional rodeo riding. CALL NUMBER: T0098:0006 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John (Jack) McNeill : transition from the range to industry RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-09-06 SUMMARY: Jack McNeill worked in Helene, Montana at the American Smelter Co.; in Aberdeen, Washington at a door factory; and farmed his father's land for three years (3 crop failures) in Manitou, Manitoba. He later went to Calgary by freight train to look for work. CALL NUMBER: T0098:0007 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): John (Jack) McNeill RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1972-09-15 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Jack McNeill discusses being on city assistance in Calgary for two months during the Depression. Took part in the On-to-Ottawa Trek in 1935. TRACK 2: Different jobs discussed, unions mentioned as well as his personal feelings toward work, the Depression and unions.