Item AAAB2546 - Marjorie Robertson interview

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Marjorie Robertson interview

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AAAB2546

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  • 1976-06-17 [date recorded] (Creation)

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Mainly interviews recorded as research for Sound Heritage vol. 6 no. 2, "Navigating the Coast."

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SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): First white woman in the Central Canadian Arctic PERIOD COVERED: 1920-1930 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1976-06-17 SUMMARY: TRACKS 1 & 2: Marjorie Robertson was born in New Brunswick in 1903, and moved to New Westminster as a child. She married C. Hugh Clarke, a partner in the Canalaska Trading Company, and returned with him to the western Arctic in 1927, remaining there for three years. She associated with native people, and travelled to Herschel Island once a year for supplies. She describes trading in the Arctic, and competition with the Hudson's Bay Company. She also recalls New Westminster in the 1910s and 1920s.

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Peter Chapman, 1976

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  • Complete transcript on file.
  • Reference cassette copy available in container 000443-137.

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  • Use Restriction: For private and educational use only. Not for broadcast or commercial use without permission of the B.C. Archives.
  • Copyright Status: Copyright B.C. Archives.

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Accession number(s): T2345

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speaker: Marjorie Alice Robertson, interviewer: Peter Chapman

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