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Weir, Jessie Irene

Jessie Weir discusses her life in Sidney and teaching public school in Belleville and Point Anne as well as being a parishioner of St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church.

Weir, Jessie Irene

Belleville Oral History Project transcripts

  • CA ON00156 BOHP
  • Fonds
  • 1974-1975, 2008

These are transcripts of tape-recorded interviews conducted in 1975 by Robert Miller, Nancy Foster, Evelyn Sine and Dave Masters. The initial group of interviews were recorded in the mid-1970s with senior citizens of the Belleville and Quinte area. No interviews were conducted in rural areas, but several interviewees had been farmers, or were raised on a farm. They also recollected times when lumbering was still an important industry and many saw-mills provided employment. Three women had been servants in the grand house Glanmore, now the Museum. Many had been teachers. A venerable clergyman gave insight into the activities of the Anglican Church earlier in the century. Wars were recollected, as well as ongoing militia activity.
Twenty-seven supplementary interviews were conducted in 2007-2009. These transcripts exist as electronic files only.

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