Oral History Interview - Mccaughtery, Womack, Anderson
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- Material Type
- Recording
- Date Range
- [1992]
- Accession No.
- 19971069001
- Scope and Content
- VHS t-120. Length: 90 minutes. Back to back interviews with Irene Mccaughtery, Sydney Womack, and Betty Anderson for use in the Galt museum video production depression years. Alexander Gait Museum video production "Depression" Length: approximately 1.5 hours. 1. Irene McCaughtery talks about gr…
- Material Type
- Recording
- Date Range
- [1992]
- Physical Condition
- Excellent
- Acquisition Source
- Sir Alexander Galt Museum
- Scope and Content
- VHS t-120. Length: 90 minutes. Back to back interviews with Irene Mccaughtery, Sydney Womack, and Betty Anderson for use in the Galt museum video production depression years. Alexander Gait Museum video production "Depression" Length: approximately 1.5 hours. 1. Irene McCaughtery talks about growing up in the Lethbridge area - school, family life, recreational activities, depression years, New Years parties. Talks about her 16th Birthday party. Discusses her father's job as a teamster at No. 6 mine. Talks about clothing and food. Shows some her paintings and talks about why she painted them. All the paintings depict her memories as a child growing up. Many of the paintings have a Ford car in them, and she explains why. Approx. 30 mins. 2. Sydney Womack talks about his farm in 1930s (depression years). He describes the dust storms. Mentions that people bartered for goods during the depression. Relates a story about a freight train from B.C. passing through Kipp with about 150 rod riders on it. Talks about being educated in England. He worked in a blacksmith shop before coming to Lethbridge. In Lethbridge he was a partner in a service station, but there wasn't enough business to support two partners so he took a job with the City of Lethbridge running a caterpillar. Wo mack's farm was located in the Kipp area. He talks about how friendly everyone was. Relates a story about Swan Osburg and his family - Swedish immigrants that farmed in the Kipp area. Approx 30 mins. 3. Betty Anderson, taught school from 1939 to 1983. She started school in 1926 and rode horseback 5 miles every day to a country school where she was one of eight pupils. The family moved to Wilson Siding area where she finished her grade 8, then transferred to LCI to complete her high school. Upon graduation she attended Mount Royal College and Normal School where she obtained her teaching certificate. She grew up during the depression, but because they lived on a farm they always had enough to eat. She graduated in 1939, just at the end of the depression and jobs were scarce due to lack of funds in school districts. Talks about the consolidation of schools. Many courses were dropped from the curriculum. She takes about subjects taught in schools and the changes that have occurred over the years. Her first teaching position was in a rural one room school near Turin. She talks about the wages she received. The school was also used a community center and it was the responsibility of the teacher to prepare the school for the dance, card party, etc. functions. She relates some stories about her early teaching experiences. Talks about the games the children played during recess and lunch. She talks about returning to university 30 years after graduating, to get her B of E and Diploma of Curriculum Development. Mentions that during the depression the government put a bounty on gophers, paying one cent per tail and that the kids during recess or lunch would be snaring gophers. When she was a youngster the family came into town once a month and she would get a nickel or dime to spend. She names some of the items she could buy. Approx 30 mins.
- Access Restrictions
- Public Access
- Accession No.
- 19971069001
- Collection
- Archive
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