Robinson, Willis & Munroe, Jenny: Transcribed interview

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Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

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Jenny Munroe

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Robinson, Willis & Munroe, Jenny: Transcribed interview

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2021.08.57

Scope and Content

TRANSCRIBED INTERVIEW - no video Interviewer: Marilyn Snedden Interview Date: October 21, 2014 Willis’ mother worked at Thoburn Mill, specking and weaving. Her father was a night watchman. Jenny worked as a winder before WWII, her father worked in the dye house. They discussed Archie Rosamond, the wartime boom, the dye house, the filling corner, and spinning mules. Willis and Jenny are siblings whose parents worked in textile mills. They were born in Quebec and their mother worked in the Thoburn mill. Their father worked in the dye house of the Rosamond mill. Jenny started working in the Rosamond mill as a teenager before World War Two began. She started work running the twisting and winding machines on the first floor but she was moved to spinning after a machine she was responsible for broke while she was in the bathroom. She also worked at the Collie mill before it burned down. She mentioned that it was mostly women working the spinning, twisting and winding machines. They remembered Archie Rosamond giving away 25 cent coins on halloween. They discussed Archie Rosamond, the wartime boom, the dye house, the filling corner, and spinning mules. No video recording available, interviewer; Marilyn Snedden Conducted October 21 2014

Collection

Mill Workers Memory Project

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Natalia Pochtaruk

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Thoburn Mill, Rosamond Mill, specking, weaving, night watchman, winder, dye house, Archie Rosamond, wartime boom, filling corner, spinning mules, quebec, almonte, 1928, Campbell's Bay, Queen's Line, Watkin's, Model T, wartime, wwii, fire, extractor, accidents, railway crossing, death, smell, 1948, 1981, 1940s, zephyr, condominiums, renovation, Hourigans

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Object Name

Robinson, Willis & Munroe, Jenny: Transc

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MVTM

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Library

Category

Permanent

Date

November 7, 2023

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Robinson, Willis

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Munroe, Jenny

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Bar, Ollie

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Stewart, Billy

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Black, George

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McLaughlin, Dorothy

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Clark, Lucy

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Rosamond, Archie

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Burnette, Retta

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Monro, Teddy

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Miller, Dick

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Guthrie, Murray

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Guthrie, Jimmy

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Houston, Des

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Houston, Raymond

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Spinks, Leonard

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LeMaistre, Johnny

General Notes

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Notes: Thoburn Mill; Rosamond Mill; specking; weaving; night watchman; winder; dye house; Archie Rosamond; wartime boom; dye house; filling corner; spinning mules. Status By: Cameron Hill

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November 11, 2023