Calgary Public Library

Bill McNeill's voice of the pioneer, conversations with Canadian pioneers

eng

interviews

Bill McNeill's voice of the pioneer

conversations with Canadian pioneers

Side 1: 1. Introduction / Bill McNeill -- 2. Memories of Louis Riel / Mrs. Jessie Tyreman, Prince Albert, Saskatchewan -- 3. New land, new dreams / George Shepherd, Saskatoon -- 4. From Poland to the Praries / Harry Henig, Saskatchewan homesteader -- 5. 1899 : The Doukhobors arrive / Mrs. Elizabeth Popoff-Bossiove, Saskatchewan -- 6. From prairie cabin to 24 Sussex Drive / John Diefenbaker -- 7. Home is a hole in a hill / Lorne Saunders, Saskatchewan homesteader -- 8. No money but lots to eat / Mrs. Carl Tellanius, Toulon, Manitoba -- 9. They tried to steal our homestead / Jake Stewart, The Ottawa Valley -- 10. Out of the shack and into the house / May Redmayne, Alberta housewife -- Side 2: 1. The night my buddy died / Lorne Berry, Quebec prospector -- 2. Nursing in the First World War / Mabel Lucas Rutherford, World War I nurse -- 3. The Halifax explosion of 1917 / Mrs. C. N. Brown, Halifax housewife -- 4. Bush pilots of the Northland / Punch Dickens, pilot -- 5. They thought I was a spy / Dr. Robert McClure, missionary to China -- 6. The dogs were my best friends / Rev. Lester Bury, Labrador -- 7. My horse knew his way in the dark / Dan J. MacDonald, Cape Breton coal miner -- 8. The Dumbells : together again / Excerps from the 1975 reunion of The Dumbells