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Charles Renaud interview
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1977-08-08 [date recorded] (Creation)
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CALL NUMBER: T3119:0001 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): French Canadians in Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-08 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: Charles Renaud (cook, saw filer, musician, well-witcher, whistle-punk) was born on November 24, 1902 in Montreal. An orphan, he spent much of his youth as a farm labourer. Description of trip out west. Meets French people in New Westminster (1927). Came to Terrace by rail, was a flunky on the rails. Goat hunting. Married in 1938. Talks about his job as a cook on the train. Cooking for Little, Haugland and Kerr. Gold Liesser Mine and pack train. Learning the trade of saw filing in New Brunswick. Types of equipment used for filing. Employee of Skeenaview Hospital. Well-witching with a willow stick. Contracted T.B. Learns how to knit. Hazelton, squirrels bothering pudding. Kitwanga, speeder, flood of 1936. Doreen, twisted rails caused by flood. (blank gap). Description of experiences; as a whistle punk. Mishap. Talks about illness, retirement and wages. TRACK 2: Playing harmonica at age seven. Wins championship. Working in Montreal. Hard labour; tap dancing; playing on the bones (moose ribs). Hunting stories from Prince George. Raising livestock in Terrace. Weasel bites baby. Description of how weasels steal eggs. Pack rats: predators after chickens. Clearing land in the Salmon Valley, Prince George. Fishing. Soldiers in Prince George. Orphan on farm in the east. Discussion on French language. Working for Marshall in a French settlement, southern B.C. Driving by Model T through the Fraser Canyon. Various places. Wages. CALL NUMBER: T3119:0001 Track 2 SUPPLIED TITLE OF TAPE(S): French Canadians in Terrace, B.C. PERIOD COVERED: 1908-1977 RECORDED: [location unknown], 1977-08-08 SUMMARY: Playing harmonica at age seven. Wins championship. Working in Montreal. Hard labour; tap dancing; playing on the bones (moose ribs). Hunting stories from Prince George. Raising livestock in Terrace. Weasel bites baby. Description of how weasels steal eggs. Pack rats: predators after chickens. Clearing land in the Salmon Valley, Prince George. Fishing. Soldiers in Prince George. Orphan on farm in the east. Discussion on French language. Working for Marshall in a French settlement, southern B.C. Driving by Model T through the Fraser Canyon. Various places. Wages.
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Reference cassette copy available in container 000443-180.
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speaker: Charles J.W. Renaud, interviewer: Rita D. Peters