Wright, Eleanor: Video interview

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Mississippi Valley Textile Museum

Eleanor Wright: Origformat: Print-Photographic
Eleanor Wright

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Wright, Eleanor: Video interview

Entry/Object ID

2021.08.25

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TRANSCRIBED VIDEO INTERVIEW - video available Interviewer: Marilyn Snedden Interview Date: June 18, 2013 In the 1930s when her father worked at the mill they would back mortgages and car payments, with Eleanor’s husband they covered dentist expenditures. Around the wartime boom, there were 3 shifts, shift work for 24 hours and over 200 employees. Collie’s mill took over in 1937. The mill bought many houses for boarding workers and their families. Eleanor enjoyed the familial atmosphere of the mill, working in administration. There were equal members of men and women working at the mill and wages were equal. She talked about community life and how the mill went bankrupt in 1987. The unions were in place, but she did not belong to one. Collie Mill 1977-87?

Collection

Mill Workers Memory Project

Cataloged By

Natalia Pochtaruk

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Collie mill, wartime boom, shift work, boarding houses, administration, wages, entertainment, community life, union, appleton, school, carleton place, 1950s, 1979, Lanark, transportation, railway, 1930s, military uniforms, war, wwii, synthetic textiles, Eatons, christmas, community hall, winter, health

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Object Name

Wright, Eleanor: Video interview

Archive Details

Creator

MVTM

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Building

Library

Category

Permanent

Date

November 7, 2023

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Wright, Eleanor

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Carmen, James

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Craig, Lois

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Caldwell, Donald

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O`Keefe, Angus

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Collie, Hank

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[email protected]

Create Date

August 5, 2021

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Update Date

November 11, 2023