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CA SVE SD-01-02-01-17-SD_WLHP_349 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Jean Shiels discusses the Mother’s Council and relief during the Great Depression. She also discusses the peace movement, the League Against the War on Fascism, and support for Spain in the 1930s. Finally, she discusses the Young Pioneers and summer camp, race relations, women in trade unions, and birth control.

FTBT - Jean Shiels - #2
CA SVE SD-01-02-01-17-SD_WLHP_348 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Jean Shiels discusses disillusionment amongst women during the Great Depression, mother and father’s history with unionism, and their eviction during the Great Depression. She also discusses the single unemployed, the difference in labour struggles from the 1930s to the 1980s, and the On to Ottawa trek.

FTBT - Jean Shiels - #1
CA SVE SD-01-02-01-17-SD_WLHP_347 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Jean Shiels discusses her early life in Vancouver, and her recollections of the Great Depression (including her family’s eviction and her father’s arrest for organizing). She discusses the Worker’s Unity League and the issues of free speech and free assembly. She also talks about food, community organization and women’s organization, social attitudes towards people on relief, and changing attitudes towards race in the 1930s. Finally, she talks about organization done by women, and the impact of unemployment on young people.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-13-SD_WLHP_346 · Item · 1987
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Alice Person discusses attitudes towards women working, the issue of equal pay, the beginnings of her union consciousness, and what she learned from her family with regards to politics. She also discusses changes to women’s rights.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-13-SD_WLHP_345 · Item · 1987
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Alice Person discusses segregation on hops farms, her daily duties, as well as living/working conditions on the farm. She also talks about domestic work, and changes in employment with the breakout of World War II, particularly for women.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-13-SD_WLHP_344 · Item · 1987
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Alice Person discusses her family’s move to British Columbia, her early life, and her family’s experiences on welfare. She also touches upon organizations for the unemployed, her employment history, working on a hops farm, and segregation in the farming industry.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-03-SD_WLHP_341 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Ruth Bullock continues discussing abortion, the difficulties of pregnancy and childbirth, and her involvement in the birth control movement. She discusses her increased involvement in politics, and her joining of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) in 1933, and the position of women inside the party. Finally, she discusses changes within politics and the women’s movement with the advent of World War II, and her work in the canning industry in the Mission area.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-03-SD_WLHP_340 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Ruth Bullock discusses her early life on Saltspring Island, and the injustices faced by girls. She also discusses her first job as a housekeeper in New Westminster, including wages and daily duties. Finally, she talks about her first marriage, enduring the Great Depression, the difficulties of pregnancy and childbirth at the time, and her fears that her newborn baby girl would face the same injustices she did.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-02-SD_WLHP_337 · Item · 16 Sep. 1987
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Nancy Buker discusses living at the Humphrey Creek logging camp with her husband, and her short term job in the kitchen. She also further discusses notable incidents at the shipyard, her feelings towards the war effort, what she learned from her time on the job, and advice for the next generation of women.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-02-SD_WLHP_336 · Item · 16 Sep. 1987
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Nancy Buker discusses her family’s immigration from Scotland to Saskatchewan in 1920, and her subsequent experiences growing up in the area. She also talks about moving to and living in Vancouver during the Great Depression and World War II. She discusses working in the shipyards of Vancouver and the Burrard Dry Dock (finding work, first day on the job, daily duties, working with men), and joining the steamfitters and plumbers union, and becoming shop steward. Finally, she discusses social life within the union.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-11-SD_WLHP_335 · Item · Jul. 1987
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Emily Nuttall continues her discussion of the Milwaukee Convention (1946), and also discusses Archie Johnson, and her opinion on current events at the time of interview.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-19-SD_WLHP_334 · Item · May 1989
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Eileen Sufrin discusses reasons for organizing, and attitudes towards unions during the war. She also discusses her personal reasons for becoming involved in the labour movement, her activity with the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation, moving from Ontario to British Columbia, and factionalization within the labour movement.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-16-SD_WLHP_333 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Irene Seed further discusses her experiences in Youbou, the Women’s Auxiliary, raising children, and her happiest memories. She also discusses her husband’s death from kidney disease, her widow’s pension, and the loggers in the community.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-16-SD_WLHP_332 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Irene Seed continues talking about her experiences in the Women’s Auxiliary, the activities of the Women’s Auxiliary, the Auxiliary’s relationship with the forestry industry and union, and the Auxiliary’s eventual dissolution. She also goes into safety issues in the mill, raising a child in Youbou, and her first day in Youbou.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-16-SD_WLHP_331 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Irene Seed discusses moving to Youbou, British Columbia and daily life with a child in a rural Vancouver Island community. She talks about seeking steady work during the Great Depression, her experiences as a nurse (including training, duties, and wages), and the wood industry to which her husband belonged. She touches upon racial segregation in the forestry industry, and the Women’s Auxiliary’s impact on the social life of women in the community.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-06-SD_WLHP_330 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Lil Godfrey discusses issues surrounding the Canadian IWA split from the International in 1948; labelling of trade unionists as radicals and communists; the social focus of Women’s Auxiliary activities after 1948; early conditions in the bunk houses. Lil describes photos, printed material, and newspaper clipping, from her scrapbook that document the Auxiliary. Includes information on other members and the IWA Trek to Victoria.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-06-SD_WLHP_329 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Lil Godfrey talks about the Lake Cowichan Women’s Auxiliary travelling delegations; women’s activities during the 1946 strike and the Auxiliary’s 10th anniversary; the Auxiliary’s community role as fundraisers and supporting services; the local chapter of the charity Imperial Order of the Daughters of the Empire (IODE); the importance of Gordon’s general store and the co-op; and the Indo-Canadian community at Cowichan.

FTBT - E. Fordham - #3
CA SVE SD-01-02-01-05-SD_WLHP_241 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Elizabeth Fordham discusses her job pressing clothing. She also discusses her reasons for immigrating from England to Saskatchewan, and her subsequent movement from Saskatchewan to British Columbia. She talks about the birth control movement and the lack of sexual health education for women. Finally, she discusses her experiences setting up a summer camp for workers’ children.

FTBT - E. Fordham - #1
CA SVE SD-01-02-01-05-SD_WLHP_240 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Elizabeth Fordham discusses her experiences during the Great Depression, including difficulties with housing, food, and looking after children. She also discusses the women’s labour movement and the types of organizing undertaken by the movement. Finally, she discusses the pacifist movement during the 1930s.

FTBT - Mrs. Tagashira - #3
CA SVE SD-01-02-01-20-SD_WLHP_239 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Masue Tagashira discusses her separation from her son, her marriage and leaving her husband, working in retail, being reunited with her son, and the importance of education for her children.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-20-SD_WLHP_238 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Masue Tagashira discusses her immigration from Japan to Canada in 1927, her life in Japan prior to moving, and the differences between rural life in Japan and Canada. She also discusses life, work and wages on logging camps.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-06-SD_WLHP_101 · Item · [198-] or [199-]
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Lil Godfrey discusses her life in the Lake Cowichan area during the 1940s, including housework and trade unionism in the region. She talks about where her support for trade unionism came from, her family’s immigration to Vancouver Island, actions undertaken by the lumber industry unions (including a 1946 strike), and fundraising in the Women’s Auxiliary. During the interview she looks through her scrapbook of correspondence and publicity regarding trade union issues and actions.

CA SVE SD-01-02-01-21-SD_WLHP_100 · Item · 6 Sep. 1989
Part of Sara Diamond fonds

Lil Godfrey and June Olson talk about the importance of the Auxiliary to each of them; the value of learning how to run a meeting; social activities like bazaars, dances, sports days, and quilting bees; some casual conversation that includes discussion about treatment of activist and blacklisted men.