War brides

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Grace Grout interview

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.

Oscar and Elizabeth Thames interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1965-08-07 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Mr. Thames recounts his family coming from Nanaimo to Bowser in 1893. He discusses fishing; Qualicum Tom; schooling at Alert Bay; early settlers; farming; fishing; logging; and settlement prior to World War I. Mrs. Thames recalls her arrival as a war bride in Bowser in 1917; her first impressions; fishing; her first year; settlement that started after 1922; hunting; boating; the government road; the railway. [TRACK 2: blank.]