Name/Title
Oates, Bob: Transcribed interviewEntry/Object ID
2021.08.51Scope and Content
TRANSCRIBED INTERVIEW - no recording available
Interviewer: Terri Clarke
Interview Date: July 9, 2013
Bob Oates presented a document about a farm on highway 29 where his family lived between 1904 and 1925. The property features a stone farm house built by a Scottish stone mason in the 1850s and James Naismith was born in a log cabin on the property. He says that there was a contract which allowed the Rosamond family to take lumber for construction from this property.
Bob's also talks about his father who was a chauffeur for the Rosamond family in the 1920s. He moved to Indiana for work during the Great Depression and then returned to Canada in 1934 to buy a farm near Kemptville where Bob grew up.
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Bob’s father was a chauffeur for the Rosamond family and he went to Indiana USA as a farmer
Video recording unavailable. Interviewer Terri Clarke
Conducted July 9, 2013?Collection
Mill Workers Memory ProjectCataloged By
Natalia PochtarukLexicon
Search Terms
Rosamond family, Highway 29, 1850s, 1904, 1925, stone mason, Young, Oxford Mills, Kemptville, 1934, 1923, the GlenLegacy Lexicon
Object Name
Oates, Bob: Transcribed interviewLocation
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November 7, 2023Relationships
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Oates, BobPerson or Organization
clarke, terriPerson or Organization
"Stone Mason Young"Person or Organization
Naismith, JamesPerson or Organization
Grace, JackGeneral Notes
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Notes: Rosamond familyCreated By
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August 5, 2021Updated By
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November 12, 2023
