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W.G. Mellon interview
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1980-01-17 [date recorded] (Creation)
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RECORDED: [location unknown], 1980-01-17 SUMMARY: In an interview with Robert Turner, W.G. Mellon discusses his background in railroading: first got a job railroading through a friend's father who was foreman at Port Mann; started off 'pushing waste' and cleaning engines; by 1927, he was firing; in Depression he had a job in a garage; back to railroading by 1939 -- Saskatchewan, Calgary; an engineer out in B.C. by 1945, running a couple of years later; everything in railroading business is done on a seniority basis; worked in the yards in Vancouver and Port Mann in the early '40s; anecdote about big snow of 1950 in the Fraser Canyon; never received overtime; in 1948, they were tied up for a whole month because the road at Matsqui was washed out. [Remainder of interview not transcribed.]
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Robert D. Turner, 1979-1980
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- Partial transcript on file.
- Reference cassette copy available in container 000443-211.
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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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Excerpts from this interview appeared in the publication "Railroaders", Sound Heritage Series no. 31.
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Accession number(s): T3585
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speaker: W.G. Mellon, interviewer: Robert David Turner
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- Canadian National Railways (Subject)