Gerry Boudreau Interview
- Creators
- Gerry Boudreau, Interviewee
- Naomi Balla-Boudreau, Interviewer
- Media Type
- Video
- Item Type
- Video recordings
- Description
- Video Interview with Gerry Boudreau.
- Date of Original
- February 1, 2006
- Subject(s)
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 46.16682 Longitude: -77.79951
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- Creative Commons licence
[more details]- Copyright Statement
- Copyright status unknown. Responsibility for determining the copyright status and any use rests exclusively with the user.
- Contact
- Head, Clara and Maria Public LibraryEmail:hcmhistory@gmail.com
- Transcription
Chapter 1 Earliest Memories
Duration: 03:39
Content: Easter, black sheep, ate grass too short, wool.
Chapter 2 Animals on the Farm
Duration: 04:16:04
Content: livestock, chores, father worked in winter, kittens born in house, house badly built, made their own fun.
Chapter 3 Different Kind of Life
Duration: 03:14:20
Content: Farming, Depression, no hydro until 1950, outhouses.
Chapter 4 Boudreau House
Duration: 02:15:22
Content: House appearance, divide of rooms, fires in winter.
Chapter 5 Sliding
Duration: 05:41:15
Content: Where they would slide, people who would slide, skating, no adults.
Chapter 6 Money Scarce
Duration: 01:11:17
Content: Losing Money, collecting money.
Chapter 7 Grandparents
Duration: 03:00:11
Content: Boudreau grandparents, homestead, cookies under bed, house fire.
Chapter 8 Big Lake Demoine
Duration: 04:02:15
Content: Boudreau Grandparents when they had kids were on this property on the Quebec side.
Chapter 9 School
Duration: 09:14:02
Content: Teachers, discipline, French not taught in school.
Chapter 10 Church
Duration: 07:44:07
Content: Tolerance, winter church and sleigh horses, summer picnics.
Chapter 11 Keeping things Cold
Duration: 06:16
Content: Ice House, Milk House, making cream, learning to drive a team of horses.
Chapter 12 Water
Duration: 06:15:21
Content: Road used to flood, had to walk on railway trellis to school, parents didn’t worry, built a raft, canoe, fishing.
Chapter 13 Surviving With Nearly Nothing
Duration: 04:49:29
Content: Widows, raising kids, good food.
Chapter 14 Deep River
Duration: 01:42:15
Content: Closed community.
Chapter 15 Father O’Brien
Duration: 09:06:01
Content: Church groups, priests, asking permission to work Sunday’s, Bishop’s visit, confirmations, organ player, mass changing from Latin to English.
Chapter 16 Memorable People
Duration: 07:39
Content: Cowboys, gypsies, Natives.
Chapter 17 Trapping
Duration: 08:58:09
Content: Learning to trap, trapping Mink, Otter slides.
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