Interview with Sheila Hagman
https://search.bvmuseum.org/link/descriptions12229
- Date Range
- June 14 2021
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- sound recording
- electronic record
- Scope and Content
- Interview with Smithers business owner Sheila Hagman, recorded June 14 2021 at the Old Church by Geri Britton. Includes raw and edited .WAV files, MP3 access file, and .pdf release form.
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- Creator
- Geri Britton
- Fonds No.
- C5
- Item No.
- 2021.21.23
- Accession No.
- 2021.21
- Physical Description
- 1.60 GB of digital records
- Date Range
- June 14 2021
- Scope and Content
- Interview with Smithers business owner Sheila Hagman, recorded June 14 2021 at the Old Church by Geri Britton. Includes raw and edited .WAV files, MP3 access file, and .pdf release form.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Audio Tracks
Interview with Sheila Hagman - June 15, 2021
Interview with Sheila Hagman - June 15, 2021
https://search.bvmuseum.org/media/Digital%20Fonds%20and%20Collections/C5%20BVM%20Oral%20History%20collection/2021.21.23_Hagman,%20Sheila/Hagman,%20Sheila%202021_06_14.ACCESS.mp3
Leaving the farm to move to Smithers, big changes in family dynamics.
adjustment; beef; chickens; crop farmer; Cutknife, Saskatchewan; family; farm; French; high school; Houston; pigs; train
family; farm
What high school was like in Smithers and later going to college to get a G.E.D.
auditorium; college; dances; French; GED; grade 11; grades; graduate; Mr. Ruiter; party; teachers
graduation; school
Hagman's family leaving Germany and coming to Canada as settlers and breaking the land.
Cutknife, Saskatchewan; German; house; power; Russian; Swift Current, Saskatchewan; wagon; water; winter
family; settlers
What it was like to live in Smithers and what Hagman would do to keep herself busy.
12th Avenue; 14th Avenue; apartment; bike; Bulkley Valley; electricity; garden; Goodacre's; house; ice skating; marriage; running water; Saturday matinee; snowball fights; tobogganing; town; trailer; TV; Vancouver
family; fun; house; Smithers
Why Sheila Hagman moved around so often and decided to stay in Smithers. As well as all the things Hagman loved about Smithers.
1967; bus stop; coffee shop; dances; disabilities; garage; handicap; highways; Hilltop; hotel; Houston; Mrs. Van Horn; Otto Hagman; pool hall; Shelly Hagman; Smithers; Smithers International Sales; strippers; Super Valu; truck driver; Vancouver
How running stores in Smithers was like and switching between four shops in one lifetime.
1982; 1996; Bank of Montreal; cigarettes; Edmonton; Fashion Plus; gift shop; hats; Heartstrings; hockey cards; land; lottery; Main Street; Mark's Work Wearhouse; photo finisher; post office; real estate; Rex Henry; shoe buying; Smithers; Smithers Video; stress; video store; water
business; Mark's Work Wearhouse; Smithers; Smithers Video
The time that a pipe broke in a new shop right after purchase and the Hagmans had to go to court.
1992; adjuster; broke; court battle; mall; pipe; staff; water; Zellers
court battle; flood; lawsuit
The struggle of getting diagnosed with cancer while running two businesses.
Bill Sullivan; bookkeeper; breast cancer; cancer; father; manager; Mark's Work Wearhouse; story; Terrace
cancer
What life was like taking care of a child with a disability, working, and losing a husband all in the same year.
care home; computer programmer; condo; Dana Gorban; dog; friendly; husband; partner; Smithers; stamping; Vancouver
care home; disability; Shelly Hagman