Mrs. Mary Jacobson interview

Date
1973-08-03
Authors
Jacobson, Mary (Mrs.)
Pearlstone, Carol
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Publisher
Canadian Plains Research Centre
Abstract

Consists of an interview with Mary Jacobson, the daughter of a Hudson's Bay manager. She talks about job discrimination against Indian and Metis, how welfare payments have destroyed the old way of life and tells a story of the Riel Rebellion of 1885 that her mother told her.

Description
12 p. transcript of an interview with Mrs. Mary Jacobson conducted by Carol Pearlstone on August 3, 1973. Tape number IH-132, transcript disc 23.
Keywords
Children -- Raising of, Depression (1930s), Discrimination -- Against Indians, Discrimination -- Against Metis, Disease and illness -- Influenza, Education -- Residential schools, Housing -- Log houses, Hudson's Bay Company (H.B.C.) -- Metis, policies re:, Hudson's Bay Company (H.B.C.) -- Employees of, Metis -- And the fur trade, Metis -- Attitudes toward, Missionaries -- Attitudes toward, Riel Rebellion (1885) -- Accounts of, Riel Rebellion (1885) -- Attitudes toward, Work -- Welfare, World War I -- Enlistment, World War II -- Enlistment, Ile-A-La-Crosse, Saskatchewan, Patuanak, Saskatchewan, Riel, Louis, St. Louis, Saskatchewan, Winnipeg, Manitoba
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