- AAAB0199
- Item
- 1973-03 [date recorded]
Part of Reynoldston Research and Studies oral history collection
CALL NUMBER: T0173:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Grace Grout : an English girl learns to survive in Canada RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-23 SUMMARY: Grace Grout was born in 1891 and discusses her prim and proper childhood in a missionary school in England; living with two old maids; being a governess for 6 years; nurse's training at Birmingham -- cut off by joining the army; anecdotes of an army nursing sister; a search for a lost relative; marriage to the lost relative; tuberculosis; moving to Canada; hostility to war brides (1919); separated from husband; the Depression on the prairies; farming, goats, chickens; building her own house; belonging to the British breed.
CALL NUMBER: T0173:0002 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): Grace Grout : an English woman who raised her family in Canada returns to nursing RECORDED: Vancouver (B.C.), 1973-03-30 SUMMARY: Grace Grout reads stories of the Depression; discusses how she boarded unwed mothers and foster babies to send her daughter to school; her return to nursing; Mission; Alert Bay; comments on the educated Japanese people at Mission (?); nursing at Gordon (?) Bay -- Columbia Coast Mission; comments on the treatment of Indians at Alert Bay and Alberta; Gleichen Reserve; attitude to the British Empire; World War II; maternity training at St. Paul's in Vancouver; description of a caesarean birth.