I was told there'd been some terrible air that I no longer could see anything
relating to King's career.
I was 25 or 26 of time, ms.
Conscious of my rights as a citizen, as any young postgraduate student of today.
How are reversed. That decision is another tale,
but the incident burned into me it determination to get everything written down
on the subject of my biography,
whether wherever it was and to search out everyone who had had anything,
whatever to do with the budding politician.
And what I discovered over and over again was how lacking in meaning was his
written record without the special dementia,
which the memories of his contemporaries brought to bear on his correspondence
and his diaries.
The written record was often accurate.
It was rarely true.
I could tell other stories about that as I could about interviewing Mr. Pearson
and mr defund Baker,
but I do not want to lose this opportunity of telling you about the work in oral
history,
which has been going on for some years in the federal government and in the
national museums,
particularly in the national museum of man and it's component the war museum.
Well, the national gallery two also makes use of taped interviews.
In addition,
the national museums provide funds to a number of oral history projects in every
region of Canada as the federal government has done through the CVC and
programs.
I've been personally closely associated with opportunities for youth and the
local initiatives program.
I should say that historical reconstruction is only one of the uses to which the
museums put oral that
the history division of the museum of man and the historians of the war museum
employ oral methods to compliment documentary and other evidence,
but in the anthropological disciplines of folk culture and ethnology,
the oral interview is used for much more than the gathering of historical
material.
Whether the questions are narrowly directed as in linguistic inquiries or less
structured as an interview is intended to elicit an informance way of thinking
or speaking. As some of you know,
a great deal of the work done by them is either man's Canadian ethnology service
entails extensive interviewing of individual anyone's and anyone.
Since the service exists only in order to study the people in these groups
are ethnologist try to work in the appropriate native language.
Since one key to a people's culture is the terms that have been developed for us
institutions and special domains of interest. For example,
kinship terminology and the vocabularies of government, law,
medicine, ritual, subsistence and so on.
Sometimes the object of research is the language itself with the purpose of
writing grammars and dictionary
and here are the interviews are systematically plan and things.
Often the interviewers will,
the formulated certain preliminary epoxies about speech, social organization,
economical relationships and the like before they go into field wherever
possible. The oral data are recorded on sound or videotape,
and the Canadian ethnology service claims is substantial archive of sound
recordings.
Although ethnologists appear to sniff a little at the free willing methods of
some oral history collectors,
they can see that non-directed research has its uses in their field too,
especially in obtaining life histories, myths,
or other narrative material.
Everything the Canadian ethnological service does in the way of collecting oral
material is influenced by the fact that its first commitment is to document
native cultures at a time when they're being changed drastically in the face of
white contact and in some cases disappearing altogether.
In the course of this work,
historical problems present themselves almost every day.
Carefully use and evaluated oral traditions of native peoples can shed light on
historical events.
This was demonstrated vividly in a paper by Gordon day of the museum of man,
which was published in the Lerner journal ethno history,
oral tradition as compliment as the paper wasn't titled set the oral traditions
of the Abenaki people alongside the written records in an attempt to reconstruct
what really happened when major Robert Rogers and his Rangers destroyed the
Abenaki villages. St Francis in the year 1759
a sober assessment seems to show that the event did not happen exactly the way
Francis Parkland and other English historians told.
The new historical evidence in this case,
in the form of Indian oral tradition was turned up in the course of ethnological
work. Beginning with the study of native language,
Virgin linguistics have again been a feature of the ethnology services field
research for the 75 six season.
Researchers spent two periods in the field three months over the summer and
three weeks last February.
Both of the six nations reserve in Ontario working mainly with the Chi yoga
inform
the reserve is considered the last and best stronghold for research on Iroquoian
languages and traditional culture.
Six of the Northern Erik wild languages are still spoken here by several hundred
persons, Seneca or yoga, Onondaga or NEDA,
Mohawk and Tuscarora.
The researcher was gathering data on special areas of Cuba,
lexicon and morphology for work in progress on AHCA yoga, dictionary,
grammar.
He also made initial contacts among the few remaining Tuscarora speakers at six
nations,
recording some six hours of tapes from an informant in his eighties including a
basic word list and a life history and Tuscarora.
This kind of work has to be regarded as in the nature of salvage.
A third purpose of the same field trip. What's your record?
An important example of Cayuga or a tree in order to study performance variation
of the Chi yoga, Thanksgiving address among different speakers,
different longhouses and different reserves.
On the February trip,
the researcher worked with a Chi yoga chief on the taping and preliminary
translation of native speeches used in treaty sessions,
and I'm a taping and translation of a recently discovered on dog a manuscript
version of the code of handsome Lake.
But let me quote from the researcher's own report.
He's Michael Foster and I quote
for several months I've been conducting library research on 17th and 18th
century trees.
I'm less interested in the content and historical outcome of the treaties.
Then the pattern of forest diplomacy used by the Indians and colonial officials,
the formal procedures, settings, speaking styles, manners,
the reading and taking turns of exchanging wampum strings and belts and
appointing speakers,
noting the absence of written information on such points.
Foster goes on to say the ethnic graphic dimension is largely missing from the
published accounts and for this we must turn to present accounts.
One may therefore understand the excitement I felt on discovering that chief
Thomas still knew the speeches and formal procedures connected with two wampum
belts, the friendship out in the two row wampum,
the agreement symbolized by these belts are very ancient.
Reaching back if want us to accept their wording,
it's face back to the time of Dutch settlement in New York.
It is not overstating the case to say that.
Here's possibly a last chance to record a tape that remains of a tradition that
wants distinguished forest councils and turned large historic events in the
Northeast.
Mr. Thomas is one of its most to living Uruguay who in words can still lead his
listeners over the forest path to the woods edge to hear the three rare words of
condolence, the extended greetings of the chiefs,
the stirring up of the council fire and the vicissitudes of argument on the
white and red man's canoes whose parallel paths are forever to remain close but
distinct here is a native document to bring ethnographic life to the historical
past.
I quoted this passage from Foster's report because it illustrates so vividly the
ways in which ethnological and linguistic research using oral techniques shed
light on history and give it the missing dimension,
but comments from some understanding of Indian values and procedures.
Preliminary study of some 32 translation tapes has already elicited elicit some
striking observations which you will undoubtedly be reading about in your
professional journals.
For the folklorist of the museum of man.
The techniques of oral interview are of major importance since they are
specifically interested in those aspects of folk behavior that are not based on
the written word.
Folklore is a study of that part of culture which is transmitted by word of
mouth independently of the rhythm of elite culture.
Investigation takes two forums, the non-participating,
which one uses material recorded by others and the participating in which the
researcher myself gathers the information.
The quality of the investigation depends on the degree to which the researcher
can discard his own prejudices and Andrew enter those in. As an informant.
Researchers normally work with a very carefully thought out questionnaire thrown
up before going into the field or they're always ready to adapt their questions
in the cabinetry to local or regional peculiarities.
The material generated by folklore interviews may take several forms in the
archives, manuscripts, typescripts, photographs, sketches,
wax cylinders, magnetic tapes, and video tapes.
I should add, as with the results of ethological interviews,
the information gathered may be useful in more than one disc.
Historians may want to use it to complement other material and there been
several studies in human geography which depend on the kind of oral interview
that folklore is specialized.
Even the medical profession has been able to make valuable use of folk material.
I'd like to go back now to the use of oral methods in the museum of mom's
history. To me,
it's been the practice of the museum for a number of years to gather oral
history, not only in the astrological field,
but on any artifacts that the museum acquires and on social history of the more
recent past. In terms of the ladder,
there are projects on the history of the times and of the troubles in the coal
mining industry of Cape Breton in Nova Scotia in the 1920s another is in
conjunction with a broad ranging study of artisanship in the province.
We'll go back in the late 19th and 20th centuries,
the project on coal mining and Cape Breton has two distinct beginnings.
First, dr muse was involved in the long range study,
the history of coal mining in the area. Secondly,
the museum agreed to cooperate with the national museums corporation and
national film board and making a film on the coal mining industries troubles in
the 1920s
the oral history project was undertaken in connection with the film,
conceived as a documentary whose most important technique is to use the
recollections of those who were involved in the events of the time.
Over 70 hours of interviews were taped while we have them on film from a number
of persons who have taken parking strikes from all gums up the coal mines in the
1920 20th the testimony of these participants naturing them up is sometimes
contradictory so that the historical facts of the background of the events of
1922 and 1925 had to be established by more traditional methodology,
but the words and the presence to the viewer of people who were actually there
given a sense of me. You see in reality, which could be given in no other way,
it is as if the people themselves have become their own historians.
The study of artisanship and Quebec has entailed seeking out living participants
in the various trades and interviewing them extensively about the work they've
done. The interviews are conducted on their own turf,
sometimes on film.
What is important in this project is that these oral interviews are most often
the only source of knowledge that we have on the subject.
Here are the oral interview truly represents the best evidence available and
once again, the people are telling their own story.
The scholar is not telling it for or bending it to fit a thesis or the demands
of narrative.
The same sort of use of oral techniques is being made by the historians,
the war museum, and you've heard some of these already this week.
If you were at one or two of the seminars firsthand accounts give the historian
a chance to glimpse the dynamics of what actually happened,
which under battle conditions may sometimes seem like opening a can of worms.
Statesmen and generals have written their memoirs often with a view of improving
their image in the eyes of posterity.
Not many private soldiers, sergeants,
ordinary seaman or Gunner's mates have published their memoirs,
but in the hands of a skilled interviewer they can tell her own stories with an
effectiveness. That is all the more telling for being Arkless
to conclude this necessarily incomplete account of some of the ways our museums
use oral techniques.
I'd like to draw attention to some of the projects across Canada,
which are funded by the national museums in new Brunswick,
the York County memory bank project and Newfoundland remembrance of things
passed in Quebec. You'll note in Ontario,
revelation 74 in Manitoba Indian cultural revival in Alberta,
the tele legend project and the oral history that makes us
and the Northwest territories,
the project of historical and cultural information and in British Columbia,
the cultural heritage project and the nest cane lift that you researched among
other benefits, these projects have created dozens of meaningful jobs.
What I believe emerges from this survey is something that seems to be inherent
in the nature of oral history as a science and art.
I wonder if you remember that poem by GK Chesterton, which has refrain.
We are the people of England and we have not spoken yet
until recently.
Written history has concentrated on high policy,
the deeds of great men and women,
the performance of generals and admirals,
the conflicts of great masses of society.
How rarely the face of an ordinary man or woman emerges from these vast
historical pumps and cavalcades.
I think that the tape recorder and the film and the videotape have allowed the
common people to step forward and tell their own stories without the mediation
of academics or professional storytellers.
It has taken historians little while to catch on to what has been happening,
but one can see its great beginnings in a book like Oscar Lewis as the children
of Sanchez more absorbing than most novels.
We're a group of desperately poor Mexicans speak from their own heart and mind
revealing the simple truth that it's not only great men and women who create the
fabric of history,
that one does not have to live in a fine house with books around one in order to
take part in the beauty and dignity of man
in the huddles of men and women broken on a wheel of history,
the mystery of human personality as realized in birth and love and anger and
hunger and violence and courage.
And Oscar Lewis was followed by those Bulger fellows to call them.
Bulger is not to dispatch the journalists,
especially the so called new journalists like Tom Wolf and even in his own queer
way, the novelist Truman Capote,
who in the pages of in cold blood took us into the interior darkness of two
desperate criminals all the way to the gallows,
studs Terkel in the United States.
And Barry brought up,
we've listened to in Canada use the tape recorder to reveal a part played by an
pretending people,
people without power or influence in the cruel times of the great depression and
the second world war.
If the people of England have not spoken yet
and if the people of Europe and the Americas have not spoken yet,
if the people of Canada have not spoken yet,
the techniques of oral history are at our disposal to let them speak and speak
out, to add their voices to the chorus of history,
to teach humility to statesman and mandarins and scholars to open a new
literature and a new vision of the motions of time and faith.
There is a connection then and a vital connection between the various
disciplines. I've been discussing ethnology and folklore,
the history of artisans and minors,
the correction of official myth by oral tradition
all refresh the same central concern,
which is to reveal ordinary men and women as they go about their ordinary lives
above all to reveal what I have spoken of as the mystery of personality in all
its wonderful variety.
There is a new urgency to the work of recording the thoughts and feelings and
values of people in communities who have been left too long in the dark and who
are now are suffering not only the insults of history,
but the shocks of technical and social change.
And in this urgent endeavor,
the national museums of Canada are playing their part and will continue to play
their part with all the resources, human and technical at their disposal.
The task, our task,
your task is to offer a deeper orchestration to the elegant formulations of
academic history. Not to supplant it,
but to augment it by something new in the world,
a secular history,
and if you want to visit our museums, they're open tomorrow.
1: Bye.
[inaudible]
0: I'm sure I need hardly point out how appreciative we are this evening for the
kinds of remarks we've just received.
It's been the most meaningful presentation, wide ranging,
substantial thought provoking.
I think it's safe to say as we leave here shortly that with policy makers like
that in Canada,
Canada obviously is in good hands and we wish them well.
Thank you again for your presentation this evening.
1: [inaudible]
0: although we are sorry to miss the opportunity,
we are bypassing the acceptance of questions for tonight's speaker.
We're running late.
We have a business session that has several meaningful portions to it and we
want to move into that shortly. However, Alice,
I believe that you have a comment or two for us before we do our president
alisongwinn
1: [inaudible]
2: I want to add my note of thanks to Bernard Austray for that extremely lucid and
inspiring talk. Thank you very much. Uh,
I have the inevitable announcement. Um,
I didn't have the pleasure of a dinner with you all because,
um, I was having dinner with Daniel shore,
which was equally pleasurable.
I assure you some of you may know that when Daniel shore arrived,
we had what my mother used to call a character building experience,
namely that the hotel had sold his room.
Um, I want to, this was part,
I think of the fallout that we experienced from the loss of the very important
contribution that Leo LeClaire had to make to our meetings.
I am happy to tell you that I have spoken to Leo and he is much better,
but he has been told by his doctor that he absolutely must rest for at least two
weeks and he is flat on his back in bed,
but uh, not furiously ill. and for that we were all certainly profoundly happy.
Um, one of the things that Daniel shore said to me,
which I do want to share with you, he said,
you have an absolutely magnificent membership.
You said the way everyone rallied around and made me feel welcome and uh,
had all kinds of ideas and suggestions,
most of which were useful, which is unusual.
Uh, he, uh,
he is feeling very happy and you'll be glad to know it's not feeling any pain.
Uh,
we weren't sure just exactly what was going to be the outcome,
but with Malcolm Douglas and his husband to help me fight with the desk.
And Ben Frank who performed yeoman services, a babysitter
and Vernie dome who gave up his room,
we managed to have come through the crisis with Daniel shore feeling very
friendly towards us all. Indeed. Um,
Tom blanche has asked me to announce. Um, and Tom, we were very,
very glad to be able to make this announcement,
which we have missed for a couple of years.
If any of you are interested in Catholic mass, uh,
Tom will be celebrating Catholic mass in the Quebec room at 7:30 AM tomorrow
morning. Um,
now we um,
have had a lot of very interesting talk and a lot of fun and uh,
some nice cocktail parties and now comes the time for us to do some work.
We uh, to ratify the revision of the constitution.
Um, if, um,
I think going to be very useful change and part of the growth of our
organization. Um, I um,
want therefore to say that if you will, uh,
clear the room and take about a 10 minutes break, uh,
the waiters will be able to clear the table.
And then those of you who are members of the oral history association will be
very glad to have you back with, uh,
your wits about you and your suggestions and contribution at the ready 10
minutes from now. No more. Please friends.
3: Ladies and gentlemen, it doesn't miss you. How's your half?
Probably attending the workshop and the Canon generalist three conference a few
days ago.
[inaudible] seen that a French Canadian history is growing and it's coming a
pretty well developed now. Then, uh, the, uh,
role of oral history is, uh, coming more and more important in it.
So, uh, in a kind of a conclusion of all those aspects,
which I've been developed in the few last days today,
uh, the session will be, uh, presented by, uh,
ms [inaudible] Sunni from the, uh,
actually the full clock from another university.
She going to tell us about the archives,
how it's working and what are the purposes, different purposes,
what are the words they are doing there.
And a second name is [inaudible] who is in charge of the archives at the,
uh, [inaudible] university or South, whatever
[inaudible] will present, uh,
papers on the tree, uh, research center, uh,
Moncton center, Saberi and, uh, the Ottawa university center.
So, uh, I got to leave, uh, I got to let a Husky, I miss a cow.
I so need to tell you what's, what's about the level
or uh, [inaudible]
uh, the only
[inaudible] [inaudible]
[inaudible] [inaudible] the dream once you get him up and try new parlay to
solve or the mountain is a read the Sudbury, I know she said to
[inaudible] [inaudible] Sunni to,
4: yeah.
Your program shows mr depo as the spokesman for 11 university.
I wanted to get to present his paper. Uh,
my name is [inaudible] after my bachelor's degree in ethnography at lava and my
master's in library science at the Montefiore.
I'm now responsible for the organization classification and dissemination is on
those there.
[inaudible] I am now responsible for the organization classification and
dissemination of the information in the folklore archives of the sedans,
some of the [inaudible] [inaudible],
the Francophone and the music to know that is the center for the study of the
language. The arts and tradition of the French speaking in North America
by definition and ethnographic documentary differs from history called one the
contents of the first deal with the collective Ave.
The fact your legs with was in that by the group of person.
For example, the same fringe Clinigen complaints about love,
happiness that suddenly Nick Kagan villages in the guest vaping in Sula or in
the French and place of Manitoba reflect a collective feeling of the people on
the contrary,
the historical documents related to specific and unique app name
if is with a certain person or precise facts for example.
So with the Novia is at historical is not the traditional act ethnography of the
peoples. That deed in ethnography, the [inaudible] of the Titanic,
the wreck of one ship and not the drowning of the raft man in the Ottawa river.
Most [inaudible] eating habits out of no interest to the ethnologist studying
the traditional eating habits of the fringe Cannington EBITDA.
Do you start a call document?
Describe an accidental vertical of fat removed from the day to day way of life,
which is often threats to the ethnologist.
If I'll ever wished to bring a new dimension through history by not restricting
it to political, individual periodical facts.
If would bring for the kids or of the people at ease in the study of the way of
life of our rules society,
then I would gladly include in the term overall history some ethnological facts
with science,
which scientific circle at always classified under the therm of ethnology or
folklore.
These ethnographic documents which draw our attention in oral history are
transmitted by means of tradition.
They all sing verbal expressions,
attitude and behavior are in judgment creations,
manufacturer Eatons and mental attitude derived from knowledge acquired through
the repetition of the sayings or the exploits of our ancestors.
They are the reincarnation of what we have seen an ERD away from the classroom
and the textbooks in France, Canada.
Therefore this some of the knowledge and of the exploits constitute the cultural
history of the common people.
We discover their oral literature, their music,
their dances,
their mental attitude as well as their pre industrial technology,
their middots of building a shelter.
That ways of dressing their eating habits. It's just that
in that study we rely on various on various and other they call metal
comparative, the predictive Quentin, the TF stricter all
at Laval university he started college neurology.
It stopped I graduate and postgraduate levers and some 60 tasers and at masters
and doctorate levers are present late in preparation about 100 days is AV to
this day been successfully defended and some 200 undergraduates at 10 courses
annually
since 1944 these studies are fed by a bumped full source of documentation
maintain in the folklore archives of the silhouette.
This center make use off and enriches the results of the folklore Chi.
It willingly accept specialists and ethnology from all countries receptors to be
admitted must be pursuing some scientific study in the field or be enrolled in
postgraduate study.
Our reference devices and so requests for information from the public at large.
These are the contents of the [inaudible] cogs of the sealant
3,554 Reagan's record in the field, approximately 300 persons.
I have recorded interviews since 1,920 and this source old's around 100,000
different feeds in the history of men in 1,966 we had already met 6,000
informants and context I've never seized
each day immediately after after recording in the field is stored under
controlled conditions of temperature and humidity.
We transcribed the contents of the Ogden hundreds of documents record on each
reel and set up a file system enabling us to locate each document on the all its
aspect. Subject lockout,
forming a copy of everything is thought in another lockout,
fireproof and Sephora
two magnetic transcription level referees are at our disposal.
Our archives also contain manuscript documents.
They are facts recalled in writing in the field or taken in various printers
from various print to Mather newspapers,
catalog periodicals, circulars.
They outnumber our tape document.
We also have a funnel graphic card and special library of over 2000 Eaton.
We have also earned,
we have some 200 rolls of microfilm code from,
I mean I called viewer a program system enabling us to obtain in a few seconds
our answer on a TV monitor and photocopies affects and photograph.
The index for this console is on [inaudible] in Mitzi [inaudible] music Francais
and Vince re of their works of arts and crafts and of Vietnam,
G a French America.
It was set up by two prophecies of the centers over a period of four years and
the project included the inventory of the arts and craft of Quebec began in
1,929 as well as the contents of many museum of French Canada and the
[inaudible] act from the French vision related to artifacts of culture.
We also AV some full thousand other transparencies and photos in the process of
being filed.
All of this documentary material as being in the magic pod compiled by our
professors of ethnography to enrich the lectures and in the course of their
research,
much was made public in various ways including publication.
I was stuck is made off tape,
900 different types and 7,000 different versions.
Legends, approximately 10,000 versions, songs and complaint,
approximately 8,000 variation,
costume belief things, Proverbs, melodies,
dances, games, details about artifacts of kilter,
dealing with dwelling clothing, food, curl furniture,
full car, skilled craft, fishing, farming on thing. It should go.
Thank you.
5: [inaudible]. Yes.
1: I wonder if I can make a suggestion that either we pull our chairs up or you
come this way yesterday.
I ended up at the back of this room with the air conditioner going.
Couldn't hear a thing. I'm sure they're going to be more
if we could just get [inaudible].
5: Sure, sure. No problem. You have a question?
It can be your preferred.
Maybe we can ask a few questions after Jack's presentation,
so that's a good way.
Well, I'll talk to you about French Canadian archives outside Quebec.
Of course Rebecca is the main part of fringe Canada,
but some of your experiences are actually in course
outside equipment. No.
Ethnologist folklorist to restore historian would question the importance of the
spoken word and the study of the cultures of societies.
All are aware of the fact that the common people have spoken more than they have
written and that popular culture has been transmitted principally through oral
tradition. Therefore, the spoken word,
what during a song pro verb Dale or Legion becomes an important indicator of the
feelings, attitudes and beliefs of human groups.
Important but not unique because in the study of man and his social rope,
do you ever wonder, written complete one another,
this study or verbal testimony as well as the reference to almanacs and the
thorough analysis of operational documents such as birth certificates and
postmortem inventories of a set often revealed the profound aspirations of
individuals and help us to comprehend the nature and extent of their fears.
Superstitions and even their conception of happiness do completely understand
the cultural history of men.
It is essential that the approaches not be fragmented
resort trees and evolve.
In the study of French speaking minority groups in Canada,
I've worked for a number of years to gather the aro and written testimony which
will permit them to understand the essential aspect of these communities and
evolution of their culture.
It would be impossible to mansion all the groups involved in this research
within the limits of the short paper.
I have therefore chosen three groups who have prison are pleasing to three.
I mean the research on French speaking settlements outside Quebec.
I will fray still. You have the song hook did some kind of gin a bottle.
I can't yet. It Cajuns study Senator of the University of Moncton.
Secondly, I'll speak of descent of the salt or the foot golf. Cancun,
[inaudible] Frankel and Taryn folklore center.
I do University of Sudbury and Turkey.
I'll try if I have time to do through,
speak about the center where I'm working. I mean the songs with the other chefs.
I'll see these guys don't kinda, Jennifer Paul says French Canadians,
civilization research Tenter at the University of Ottawa.
I do not claim to be able to inform you in a minute as detail.
Objective of days of each of these centers are of the orientation of the studies
which are being conducted. Rather,
I intend to give you some indication of the type of documentation active
Malaysia then preserved by these institutions.
The goal pursued by the research or did you work there and the research project
now in progress
first then the Sancho did to that [inaudible] of the University of Moncton since
its establishment in 1864 the st Joseph college of I'm cook,
it's a small town located like think 13 miles South West or
Southeast of Moncton.
I had accumulated a concentrated number of documents pertaining to the Acadians
in 1914 the authorities of the institution actively encouraged to do research
and conservation of these documents,
which in 1963 were transferred
[inaudible] of the new University of Moncton and rename. The song could did too.
I can't do it.
That's her institution as the left side of the objective pursued by its
predecessors. According to father,
I'll say the machine has some former director of the center.
The goal of his center in fact is always to accumulate all the archives and it's
a translation and I quote here is always to accumulate all of the archives or
copies of archives to owe the world containing concerning the Acadians all
publications, books, magazines, newspapers, the Daniella's,
you also folklore historical and geographical maps. Art paintings,
photographs of sites of historical figures at Chidra on cool to this day,
the center and shared custody of some 10,000 volumes booklets and magazines
pertaining to the Acadians.
It is also in buses of approximately 2,300 rolls of microfilm on which are
recorded tens of thousands of a Cajun related documents,
many retrieved from the containment of French British and American art guys and
from the old the Cajun parishes.
It's also preserved approximately 60 collection of manuscripts,
about 200 linear feet, you know,
originating from individuals who were at one time or another involved in the
Cajun life.
These Starrco treasures along with other occasion artifacts in custody elsewhere
in the world. I've recently been the object of an inventory to first of all,
do you move, which is entitled? I am auntie LD still.
So ducky moat asylees that guides a well which can be transferred by um,
inventory of sources on Acadians you said, and the
Acadian is, well, kids ends is, it's an ethnic group who is,
yes. If Angela you have heard about dementia lie the poem of Longfellow.
Well, uh, they are living actually in the North part of new Brunswick, you know,
but they were mainly Indianapolis Valley and Nova Scotia before 1755 and then
you know, uh, what was the name of this famous general, I can't remember,
but you know there were, pardon me? Yes, Lawrence. Thank you sir.
And they work all the, I'm forced to go elsewhere in the world.
I mean some went in was Yana someone there in the and the 0.2 area in France.
He went back and friends.
Some others came in Quebec and the arteries too.
Then after in 1770 or 65, something like that,
they came back in the maritime provinces,
but they came into Northeast part of new Brunswick.
Actually the Armenian will living in the Northeast part of new Brunswick.
Uh, do you ever present it? Approximately 40% of the population.
1: So you brings with province approximate
[inaudible] you have to go back to a sanctuaries. And I had,
there were like two big French settlements in Canada was in the old France and
there are on the st cloud. I'm just forever.
But then like to just find new England,
that was what they call [inaudible] force. Even the English picking berries,
English picking gave you that before.
It said I can't get somebody to go to Meijer times.
Also Wendy's bagel tastes replicated yet if people don't just sometimes the
English speaking people so that they're so really from the beginning the French
were there, we're not going to play French.
They come from France but they have different governor or different I'm
tournament, he's open for like the colonias in us.
Virginia was not the mass.
You still get more two different settlements and they had different that group
and they have different governors. So that's like another time.
In fact there was a difference.
Maybe even the language sometime between did this send the decades and the sign
of the people will live a longer focus like law, not with indication,
it's all French speaking. But uh, so like when we'd be from [inaudible],
from West Virginia and Maryland as compared to people in Rhode Island,
Boston actually one our heartbreak.
No park,
no
wonder you slept there. Jerky, Rafiq of area.
Because you're part of the caveat is that you guys both,
I think that drove cause maybe we have to go to an old
[inaudible] [inaudible] something and I did it first before being people who get
towards an area to rescue their, yeah.
Say that part
over there. Yes.
5: Because you know this French element,
do you know of the Atlantic area has been under French rule just 40 or 50 years,
you know, in 1670 by the Brita. Ruthie.
Well no, before he took the ganglion and then [inaudible] came back to France,
but a few years later he came back to England and in the new friends,
you know the new friends, the thing Clarins Valley,
we're under the French rule until 1768 but 40 Cajun were under French rule just
for 40 or 50 years on your story.
1: Well that's okay.
5: Well I was talking about then D left,
invent three published by the center, the Acadian study center.
This center devotes a special attention to Paro history.
So much so that the department of folklore was established in 1970 to get her a
Cajun folklore and accumulate oral material.
On the civilization of deceptive group does department of the center as as of
September, 1976 over 2000 songs,
300 stories for Andrea and allegiance,
215 musical composer, shins and tradition at Chitra Chidra.
The staff of the center and if it's department of folklore tried to be present
on all fronts.
This becomes evident when one observed the diversity of the research project
conducted by this institution and investigation had been carried out among
peoples add retain through oral tradition.
The construction is the credits involved in the building of the hub.
What to do you have?
What do we as a kind of them you knew a used to dry up swamps.
The fabrication of Barrows and some techniques of fishing.
A theme from the center systematically scored two counties of new Brunswick that
a Westmoreland and Kent do find typical the Cajun recipes.
Other groups have aim their efforts towards either dense furniture,
clothing at CHIPRA.
The Senator has always been interested in the occasion language and is thinking
of establishing its own department of linguistic.
All of these endeavors, I have enough long gone on that.
The builders of the Acadian village and carrot,
which is in the North Eastern part of new Brunswick,
often during to descend through for assistance in the realization of their
project,
organizer of cultural events such as the fluidic I or rely on the valuable
collaboration of the department of folklore of the center.
Then the song could ditch the exec ed Jen of the University of day of Moncton
constitute an excellent model of interdisciplinary approaches and of involvement
involvement. Pardon me,
in the community where D's twin aspects are concerned on then you blue leads in
its field. The second group is the group of Sudbury,
which is called and the song because taco [inaudible] to foot claw as it's
layman, the Gates. This Institute can specialize in the French King.
He didn't call a floor in Northeastern Ontario.
It pleases the study of written documents. Do experiments,
organization assist you. Do you need to bet on the tech? Do you need,
if I don't want that of you,
new Ontario historical society in 1948 that dream institution begin to express
its interest in the Franklin Terrion folklore of this Sudbury area.
Sabrina notes a town located in the North West of the Ontario,
well North middle of Norton. That's the middle of the morning. Okay.
It's a approximately 40 or 45 persons French speaking people there and it's well
known for the nickel mine.
A big a big nickel. Yes, it's true.
In 1948 oil I said that early evidence revealed the value of folkloric studies
in this zone where the concentration of Francophones is I in 1958 then 10 years
later,
the oral documentation of [inaudible] study was transferred to the new
University of Sudbury,
which founded nice teach you to foot claw later to your name South with Cancun.
The FID glow. I quote, father [inaudible],
founder of the institution which explains the goal is pretty shoe advise.
Sanford,
the intention of this cultural institution is to record on tape the various
traditional acquisition of our pioneer people's songs, stories,
legions, pro verbs, craftman shapes, recipes,
popular bullies, remedies, games and rhymes in a word.
All that the people I've learned from their ancestor is by means Audrey.
Then the written word or formal schooling.
Our final goal.
He concludes with these recording is to arrive at a better understanding of this
people of French destined transplanted and Canadian soil Encore.
After 25 years of gathering material,
the center as accumulate to the volume of the stock of oral documentation over F
of which is still on that it adds some 250 sound tapes and 22 video tapes.
We're producing your original texts of 5,800 different versions of folk songs,
some 675 tails and legions.
Their remembrances of elders diff, fiddlers jigs,
the recipes and popular beliefs add to this a library and museum containing
amongst other things fall core related works about two thousands photographs
walked silence.
There is Rick curds and two they think back to the later part of the previous
century and the first 25 years of the 20th at this stage it became imperative to
let the researchers everywhere know of the existence of such a wealth of
material concerted a Fort as been employed to this end.
Thus in 1973 the publication of full Dale's,
it was begun in this series. Leave you more Quantic, uh,
which can be translated by the elders as told me about some things here today at
least six volumes have been published.
The entire collection should total approximately 30 volumes.
I knew that actually some 18 volumes are ready for publication
under stories I've been publishing to form of comic strips by [inaudible] of
Montreal. Cassie.
Dave's will be available for [inaudible] corporate chase this coming year as a
compliment to the stories already published.
Meanwhile,
the gathering and transcribing continues so long as there are many people with a
lot of tell about the life of their ancestors.
Well first came to this region, most of them from Quebec.
Their testimony is particularly interesting.
Not only does it add to our knowledge of the folklore and the material
civilization of these human settlements,
but it also permits us do we evaluate and measure the transformation which has
taken place within DC, within this group,
transplanted in an environment very different from the one in which their
culture developed originally.
And I knew that as far as immunity is all is often going to friends. You know,
he tried to find them tale or song in France and Britain even were elsewhere and
friends and he's coming back in the area of the guests.
BZ gets Basie Avorio, you know the Saint Clarence Valley.
He tried to check the difference between friends and it's like Martin's Valley
and the third, the third stage, you know he's doing the lies, the same song.
We're the same deal in the Northeastern Ontario area and it's very interesting
to see, you know, the evolution of the song or the tale.
Then the third group is the song of punk.
The song of the Dilla sheriffs will shoot.
These guys don't kind of [inaudible] do you need a student or what do I have
time? That's okay. That's okay.
The Franklin theory element then is also understood it in the Ottawa area.
The institution active in this field is, as I said,
the song called the other chef. How CVDs yes, you don't get to done.
Paul says you just [inaudible] that. That was very long.
Can you see then we used to say CR CCF
and this institution dates back its involvement to the past seven or eight years
only established in the late fifties do to increase the awareness of the need to
promote this study of French Canadian literature. I do University of Ottawa,
the center tower N of the last decade gradually widened its cope to include all
aspects of the societal, cultural life of French Canada,
including Quebec and became actively engaged at three different levels of
research documentation,
first one investigation and publication at the first level of its involvement,
pardon me, of its involvement that of archives and documentation.
The sound that intends to put at the disposal of researchers there written audio
and OCHA,
no graphical documentation necessary to force you do your studies or fringe.
Kenny didn't. Life in general. I know Franklin in life in particular.
To this end we maintain it.
I worked archives and word done 450 linear feet of written documents,
40% of which are related to the artistic and literary life of Quebec from 1850
on war. The remainder consist of specifically of Franklin.
Taryn archives.
Equated to us by individual and Scholastic or patriotic organization and gauge
into defense of the French fact and Ontario.
These documents make up some 75 collection.
The archives of the center also assures the safekeeping of recorded material at
prison.
We are in possession of several collection which are comprised of approximately
500 tapes providing as Manila listening hours.
These staves old for the most part, the text of plays presented in Montreal,
da Terry's during the 60s conferences and other presentations concerning the
culture did history or the literature of French Canada and of Quebec two years
ago to French language radio station in Toronto.
She JBC left us a consignment of 200 original tapes of interviews which Franklin
Taryn pioneers of the Southwestern part of the province and with Quebec novelist
and poets.
We also have a copy of the linguistic inquiry made in less than one 10 a small
village in Western Ontario, small French speaking village.
Of course along with a small number of records and tapes of stories and songs
which are typically French Canadian. Since the last January,
one of over colleagues has been devoting half of her time to drawing up a
catalog of all our other material district. Perjury will no doubt,
includes some invaluable information's on your intellectual and cultural life of
French Canada. Do sound and written documents.
One must also add the iconographic items.
The center assures the safekeeping of some 3,500 a 500 yes.
Photographs of which some they date back to the 1880s for the most part they
refer to French Canadian writers and artists.
Actually our photograph collections offered little that is interested in studies
of technology or folklore or whatever.
This tuition is due to change within the coming months as we are at prison
negotiating the acquisitions of two collections which we believe to be rich and
valuable information under society.
We call on life and the material culture of Francophone settlements in Ontario
and the prairies. I hope that the public archives of Canada wants to tell you,
yeah, we hope
we also put that to the disposal of our reserve. Trish, all library.
What do we have a lot of difficulties to maintain it because the administration
of the university is not very cooperative day where one may find a major
reference words pertaining to French Canada and Quebec,
a few mostly incomplete series of newspaper and a wide range of periodical
publications.
Over the past few months we have stressed the acquisition of local and regional
Franco and Terria newspapers.
All of these documents are filed a for easy reference. I mean all you know,
half of
do make more people aware of the extent of our collections.
We are and I wouldn't say it's a mistake in the text.
We are also involved every
4: time, every time.
Every time somebody says something about their organization or their whatever,
it sounds so beautiful and perfect and complete and everybody knows well,
but everybody
5: knows that it does not like
to make more people aware of the extent of our collection.
We are also involved in the preparation of inventories.
These are generally printed in quantities of a hundred and distribute it to
public and private library. Reason to country.
That's in early 1976 we have published the frizz volume of label Ontario.
The duct came out the lesson.
She has [inaudible] don't have a French Canadian association of Ontario
[inaudible].
6: Then three papers in Benford
5: have also just recently publish lamb Autel de Pepe Edmodo [inaudible],
a French Canadian artist who passed away in 1954 at the age of 90
we are preparing all students publication of a similar inventory of our selling
material, as I said before, to be ready in the spring of 77.