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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>24 oral history Ontario Historical Studies Series
Arts Interviews from the mid-1970s can be accessed at the Archives of Ontario.
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The interviews were a resource for the essay
contributors to <EM>Later Stages: Essays in Ontario Theatre from the First World
War to the 1970s</EM>. Ann Saddlemyer and Richard Plant, eds. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1997.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The 24 interviews are with Robert Christie, John
Colicos, Robertson Davies, Donald Davis, Arthur Gelber, Earle Grey, Amelia Hall,
Don Harron, Lois Reynolds Kerr, Paul Kligman, Ben and Syvia Lennick, Alan and
Blanche Lund, George Luscombe, Jane Mallet, Dora Mavor Moore, Mavor Moore,
Violet Murray, Len Peterson, Ernest Rawley, Oscar and Toby Ryan, Lister
Sinclair, Bernard and Jill Foster Slade, Herman Voaden and Herbert
Whittaker.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The earliest interview in this collection with Dora
Mavor Moore is dated 1964. Most interviews date from the mid-1970s, with the
latest recorded in 1980. 18 of the interviews have been transcribed.
Each interview has its own descriptive file listing number of audio
tapes, pages of transcripts, and restrictions, if any. </FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Barb Taylor (416-327 1551) who is responsible for
these audio materials provided me with the following website listings to access
these holding descriptions via the internet.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>The Archives of Ontario website is</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><A
href="http://www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/index.html">www.archives.gov.on.ca/english/index.html</A></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Click on "Search the Collections"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Click on "Archives Descriptive
Database"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Click on "Files and Items"</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>At "Archival Reference Code" enter RG 47-27-2 and
click.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Don Rubin, who conducted most of the interviews,
has provided the following additional information:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>"The contact for me--and the person who
commissioned it all--was Peter Oliver in the York Department of History. He was
a member of the OHSS Board of Directors. I was asked to prepare a list of 15 or
20 possible people to be interviewed. That list was approved (in fact, it wound
up at about 30 or so and originally included people such as William Shatner and
Chris Plummer) and I was commissioned to do the research and the interviews in
groups of about six. That is, I would do six and then they would approve funds
for another six. It took about two or three years to complete 20 or so somewhere
between about 1974 and 1976.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Most of the interviews were done in people's homes
in and around Ontario. The last group involved people who had moved to the
United States and OHSS paid for one trip to Los Angeles for me. I had a student
researcher in all cases. For the early interviews it was Forster Freed.For the
later interviews it was Therese Beaupre, both York theatre students. I do not
remember doing the interview with Dora Mavor Moore. I do believe all the others
are mine although I am a bit hazy on Robert Christie and Violet Murray. Probably
if I read them again I would recognise them."</FONT></DIV>
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