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Max Edgar interview

RECORDED: [location unknown], 1982-11-18 SUMMARY: TRACK 1: In an interview with Tom Hood, Max Edgar discusses his career with CN communications, beginning in September 1918. He originally worked with Canadian Northern on the Prairies as assistant agent at Lloydminster; he discusses his experiences there. Then he worked for CN telegraph on the Prairies. Eventually, he was transferred to Vancouver, where he worked for the CNR's radio service. Discusses setting up incoming network lines for the national jubilee broadcast in 1927. CNRV staff. Edgar's involvement with early network broadcasts. More on problems with the 1927 jubilee network broadcast. Installation of the CBC's low-power rebroadcast transmitters (LPRTs) in the 1940s. Radio service on CNR trains. Dick Claringbull. The CNRV Porters. TRACK 2: Billy Browne. Sprott-Shaw Radio School, ca. 1930s. Miscellaneous topics.

Vancouver Symphony, 1948-10-10 : parts 1-4

CALL NUMBER: SD0241:0003 SUMMARY: Broadcast portion (opening half) of the first concert of the Vancouver Symphony's fall/winter season, at the Orpheum Theatre in Vancouver. SIDE 1 [part 1]: Conducted by Jacques Singer, the VSO perform;s an orchestral arrangement of the Cantata and Fugue in B Minor by J.S. Bach. SIDE 2 [part 3]: [continues from SD0241:0004 side 1] Last part of 2nd movement and beginning of 3rd movement of Symphony N;o. 5 by Beethoven.;

CALL NUMBER: SD0241:0004 SUMMARY: SIDE 1 [part 2]: The Egmont Overture by Beethoven, followed by 1st movement and beginning part of 2nd movement of Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven. [continued on SD0241:0003 side 3]. SIDE 2 [part 4]: [con;tinues from SD0241:0003 side 1] Last part of 3rd movement of Symphony No. 5 by Beethoven. Announcement of next concert broadcast.;

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