- Creators
- Yvonne Sennett, Interviewee
- Naomi Balla-Boudreau, Interviewer
- Media Type
- Video
- Item Type
- Video recordings
- Description
- Video interview of Mackey resident, Yvonne Sennett.
- Subject(s)
- Language of Item
- English
- Geographic Coverage
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Ontario, Canada
Latitude: 46.16682 Longitude: -77.79951
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- 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 School
Duration: 4:08
Content: One room school house, grades1-8, sent to work at age 10.
Chapter 2 Church
Duration: 2:16
Content: Mackey Church moved to Stonecliffe, priest came for house calls, Father O’Brien.
Chapter 3 Family Property
Duration: 2:03
Content: Location of “new Mackey’s. history of Yvonne’s family.
Chapter 4 Life’s Ups and Downs
Duration: 9:30
Content: Dad dies when she’s young, kids separated and sent to orphanage, sister found her and stole her.
Chapter 5 CPR
Duration: 9:33
Content: Living in the CPR “steady-man” residence. Life as a CPR family.
Chapter 6 Keeping Busy
Duration: 3:38
Content: How people occupied their time, place at old Mackey’s.
Chapter 7 Chores
Duration: 4:28
Content: Cutting wood for heat, doing laundry, baking.
Chapter 8 What a Quarter Could Buy
Duration: 1:47
Content: Picking berries and selling them for a quarter, what a quarter would buy.
Chapter 9 Food
Duration: 5:32
Content: Gardens, salt pork, fresh meat, winter treats: jello, not a lot of sweets back then.
Chapter 10 Family
Duration: 11:45
Content: Events, social politics, family names.
Chapter 11 Catholic Church/Cemeteries
Duration: 8:30
Content: church housekeeper, cemeteries, problems with unmarked graves.
Chapter 12 Yvonne’s Dad
Duration: 4:15
Content: When her father drowned on a log drive, age her parents got married, “you make your bed you lie in it”.
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