Item 001 - Interview with Teddy Green

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Interview with Teddy Green

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    CA ETRC P233-001-025-001

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    • 1965 (Creation)

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    Statement regarding harmful or offensive language in oral history interviews:
    The above oral history recording contains racist language that listeners may find offensive (beginning around 00:43:53). The ETRC makes available oral history interviews as part of the historical record. Oral history interviews are the personal recollections and opinions of the individuals involved, often reflecting the era and the context in which they lived. As a result, they may contain language, ideas or stereotypes that are offensive or harmful to others. Individual oral histories cannot serve as the sole source of historical information about an institution or event.

    1 audio recording (1 hr., 10 min.)

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    (1895-1972)

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    Edward Colston Green, aka Teddy, was born in London, England in 1895. He immigrated to Canada in 1913 and went to work in the Eustis copper mines, where he worked much of the time until the mine's closure in 1938. Teddy also worked for the Brompton Pulp and Paper Company for a time (ca. 1920). He married Lily (Lillian/Lillie) Digby (1901-2002) on 28 June 1917 (North Hatley Universalist Church) and together they had the following children: Gladys, Doris, Edward, Doreen, and May. Teddy Green died 8 April 1972 and was interred at the Reedsville (North Hatley) Cemetery.

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    Item is an interview of Edward "Teddy" Green about his experience working at the Eustis copper mines by W. Gillies Ross in October 1965. Included in the interview are the subjects of mining accidents, working conditions, mining methods, use of communication in the mines, entertainment and leisure, WWI and marriage, and Black people from North Carolina working in the mines.

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      The interview was recorded in English.

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      Original audio reel was digitized courtesy of funding received from the Townshippers' Foundation and the Bélanger-Gardner Foundation in 2021.

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