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Recker, Christian

Group in Hear, Here Shirts

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Group Inside

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Two Person Group Phhoto

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Crowd at Launch

Paul Peel\u27s children provide inspiration to their father

Tovey, Mark

Story 4-3 Gada Jane Interview

Buying a record collection leads to buying a house

I came here to buy a record collection. The coffered ceiling immediately caught my attention and then after a discussion with Ann Harley, who was selling the record collection, I asked her if the house might be going up for sale and told her that my wife and I might be interested. And it went from there.
It mattered to the previous owners that they found somebody who was going to treat their house well and I think that they were worldly enough to realize that they can't control that completely. They wanted someone to live here and love the house as they had. And we promised them that we would live here and that we would look after the house. They had no way of knowing whether we would keep that promise or not but I believe that we have. And one of the guiding principles for Mary and I has been that any change or improvement that we try to make to the house, that it respects the house as it is, and so that means that the feel and appearance of the house is essentially unchanged.
I was in the house several times before we actually purchased it and walked around the neighborhood many more times. And to this day I still find features about the house that I find very endearing and attractive, and make it a place that I want to stay in for a long time.
Ann Harley told Mary that she had consulted the house spirit to help her find a good custodian for their house. Take that for what it's worth. We haven't actually experienced the house spirit but there could be one you never know. I'm open minded.


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Story 8-2 Alasdair Beaton Interview

Marilyn Austin shares memories of her experience as a nursing student at the old Victoria Hospital and sunbathing on the roof of the Gartshore Residence

Anderson, Katie

My name is Marilyn Austin, I’m a graduate of the Victoria Hospital School of Nursing, 1967. I am standing in front of the Gartshore Residence, South Street, Victoria Hospital.
I remember my mother driving me to South Street, September ’64, on my birthday. So that was my 19th birthday. I remember my mother was very anxious about leaving me there, I mean a lot of run down houses, the one way streets, I was not sure I wanted to be left there. And immediately, like there’s 130 people who are very anxious and not wanting their mother or father or both parents leave them, just ended up talking to a couple of girls who were from Galt. And so we have been friends since 1964. You were put in the areas of residence as per you fit into the alphabetical listing. So the A’s and B’s and C’s got put together. So you would become friendly with a person’s name if they were Black, and somebody else if they were Brown, and my maiden name was Binning, so that’s sort of how you made your friends. 
And upstairs, you walk through a lounge to get out onto the deck. It was common for people to go up and sit on the top, there was a tar roof, and soak up the sun. And that looked across into the operating rooms across the way. In the days, before we knew about the harmful effects of sun, slather down with baby oil on a tar roof, you might be working three to eleven, so you’d be up there eight or nine in the morning, and soak up till about one or one thirty.  Because you didn’t have money to spend and you were obviously not out. 
Most of the time I was compliant with what the rules were. It was a very cloistered environment. Men were not allowed in the residence. Your father was not allowed in the residence. So he, I think he was allowed to come into the Gartshore lounge, but that was it. They were not allowed in your rooms. I think there probably are stories of people who did get males into their rooms. But it was this very sort of spartan room, facing the Medical School. So there was no sunlight coming into the room, small little room. So it was pretty, pretty scary for the first little while. I don’t think I ever broke down into tears and said my parents had to come and get me. You just know that you have to adjust to this and this is what your future is going to be.


Story 26-3 Marilyn Austin Interview

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Zimmerman, Walter

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Woman Speaking

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