Pierre Vandale interview

Date
1973-07-11
Authors
Vandale, Pierre
Pearlstone, Carol
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Publisher
Canadian Plains Research Centre
Abstract

Pierre Vandale was born in Carlton, Saskatchewan. He was treated in a sanatorium for tuberculosis but on recovery worked at farming and woodcutting. He talks about his children's education and his lack of schooling and he shares what his grandfather told him about the Riel Rebellion of 1885, the Metis and World War I and II.

Description
6 p. transcript of an interview with Pierre Vandale conducted by Carol Pearlstone on July 11, 1973. Tape number IH-140B, transcript disc 24.
Keywords
Agriculture -- Farming, Disease and illness -- Tuberculosis, Education -- Attitudes toward, Education -- Self-taught, Metis -- And agriculture, Riel Rebellion (1885) -- Accounts of, Riel Rebellion (1885) -- Aftermath of, Riel Rebellion (1885) -- Grievances leading to, Scrip -- Land, Work -- For wages, World War I -- Enlistment, World War II -- Attitudes toward, World War II -- Enlistment, Carlton, Saskatchewan, Dumont, Gabriel, Green Lake, Saskatchewan, Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan, Riel, Louis
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