| Bringing Out the Untold Life, Recollections of Mildred Reid Grant Gray Contributor(s): Scheuren, Claire E. (Author), Claire E. Scheuren (Author), Gray, Mildred Grant (Performed by) |
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ISBN: 097969213X ISBN-13: 9780979692130 Publisher: Zeitgeist West OUR PRICE: $31.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2013 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - History | Canada - General - Travel | Canada - Atlantic Provinces (nb, Nl, Ns, Pe) |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.13 lbs) 252 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian |
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| Publisher Description: Canadian Morse Code Operator Chronicles Nine Decades In Historic Cape Breton Fishing Village. Mildred Gray is acknowledged as the last surviving government-employed Morse Code operator and one of the last surviving manual switchboard operators in the Canadian Maritime provinces. Between the 1940s through the 1970s, Mrs. Gray was a one-woman 911, information and referral service, spiritual advisor, and companion to people giving birth and people dying. This comprehensive oral history includes maps, historic photographs, a 50-page section of Highlights of Gabarus History, and an extensive bibliography. Gabarus featured in the two sieges of Fortress Louisbourg, turning points in the Anglo-French imperial struggle for what is today the nation of Canada. |