Oral History of Eastern Townships Anglophone Women during World War II
- CA ETRC P995-098-D003
- File
- 1940-[1945], 1991-1995
Part of Eastern Townships Research Centre Special Media collection
The file contains source material on the lives and experiences of Eastern Townships Women during World War II. It consists of recorded oral history interviews, interview transcriptions and research material. Included in the research material are photocopies of newspaper clippings, advertisements, a Red Cross publication titled "Knitting instructions for War Work" dated 1940 and photocopies of the minute book and list of members for the Officers' Wives Association of the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment, also known as the Women's Committee of the Sherbrooke Fusilier Regiment and the Women's Committee of the 27th Canadian Armoured Regiment, dated from 1940 to 1945. The file is comprised of the following series: Project Description, Administration and Results (1991-1995) Interviews (1991), and Research Material (1940-[1945], 1991).
Included among the interviewees are:
Barrie, Kay
Beattie, Lyla
Beattie, Norma
Beers, Mary
Booth, Joyce
Brand, Muriel
Draper, Pauline
Drennan, Beverly
Dunsmore, Artha
Elliot, Enid
Hall, Shirley
Hewitt, Bernice
Hurd, Lionnel
Jackson, Madeline
Legette, Laura
Matthews, Eileen
McKelvey, Doris (Thayer)
Nichols, Bertha
Pearton, Jean
Putney, Ruth
Rand, Fay
Robinson, Wilda
Sherrer, Lorraine (Williams)
Taylor, Eleanor
Thomson, Joan
Thorpe, Jean
Vriesendorp, Jocye
Waldron, Mildred
Walker, Laurie
Woodward, Irma (Lebaron).