Julian, Marlene: Video interview

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Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

Name/Title

Julian, Marlene: Video interview

Entry/Object ID

2021.08.12

Scope and Content

VIDEO INTERVIEW Interviewer: Marilyn Snedden Interview Date: June 25, 2013 Marlene was a trained nurse and she talked about community life in Almonte. The closest contact to the mill she had was buying her yarn there and relatives of her husband worked at the mill. When she received a tour, she saw the dye house and thought she definitely wouldn’t want to work there. Marlene was born in Cornwall, England. She attended an all girls school and then went to Plymouth Technical College to study for the nursing program. She came to canada with a friend after they studied in college with some young women from Wakefield, Quebec who found them jobs in the Almonte hospital. She met her husband when the head nurse of the hospital set her up on a date with him. Marlene has the scale which was used to wiegh babies in the old hospital which she aquired when the new hospital was built.

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Mill Workers Memory Project

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Object Name

Julian, Marlene: Video interview

Archive Details

Creator

MVTM

Location

Location

Building

Library

Category

Permanent

Date

November 7, 2023

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Person or Organization

Julian, Marlene

Person or Organization

Snedden, Marilyn

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Horton, Art

Person or Organization

Colbourne, Gertie

Person or Organization

Sadler, Jean

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Status By: Cameron Hill

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Create Date

August 5, 2021

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Update Date

November 11, 2023