Interview with 'Ev Persons'
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- Date Range
- [199-?]
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- GMD
- sound recording
- electronic record
- Scope and Content
- Interview with 'Ev Persons' (probably Roy Everett Person), recorded by Carol Morgenthaler as part of a BVLD radio series. Includes raw .WAV file and .MP3 access files. No release forms located.
- Collection
- BVM Oral History collection
- Description Level
- File
- Creator
- Carol Morgenthaler
- Fonds No.
- C5
- Item No.
- 2021.21.66
- Accession No.
- 2021.21
- Physical Description
- 190 MB of digital records
- Date Range
- [199-?]
- Scope and Content
- Interview with 'Ev Persons' (probably Roy Everett Person), recorded by Carol Morgenthaler as part of a BVLD radio series. Includes raw .WAV file and .MP3 access files. No release forms located.
- Type of Record
- Archival Description
Audio Tracks
Interview with Ev Persons - [1990s]
Intro to interview with 'Ev Persons' (Roy Everett Person), who taught industrial arts at the Smithers Secondary School beginning in 1957. He discusses how during his first year the town's sewage system was installed and the school playground was no longer used as a septic field.
playground; septic field; sewage system
education; industrial arts; Smithers Secondary School; teaching
Persons discusses teaching industrial arts classes to students from Smithers and Telkwa.
bussed-in; drafting; electricity; gender separation; girls and boys; metal shop; sexism; subjects; Telkwa; trades; woodshop; woodworking
education; industrial arts; school; Smithers Secondary School; students; teaching
Persons discusses the sort of equipment - mostly hand-operated tools - used in carpentry and metalworking classes at the time.
carpentry; drafting; electricity; general shop; metalworking; saws; woodworking
equipment; industrial arts; tools
Persons has taught many local craftsmen over the years.
Hans Duerichen
craftsmen; students