Fonds Acc2924 - Belfast Historical Society fonds

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Belfast Historical Society fonds

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CA PCA Acc2924

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  • 1976-2002 (Creation)
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    Belfast Historical Society

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3 volumes of textual records
24 audio cassettes

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Belfast Historical Society

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The Belfast Historical Society was founded at a public meeting held on 26 March 1976. The principle objective of the society was to promote and encourage an interest in the history of the Belfast district. Among its activities were the sponsoring of public lectures on local and Island history and the production of a newsletter called the Recaller. In 1977 the society sponsored a project to sponsor a commuity oral history archives. University students were hired through a Summer Canada Works project to collect taped acounts from more tham 20 elderly residents. In the fall of 1980 the tapes were transcribed and edited and further information collected. In 1992 Belfast people, a collection of the transcribed and edited tapes of twenty-seven residents of the Belfast area, was published.

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The fonds consists of the first issue of the Belfast Historical Society's newletter The Recaller, Autumn 1976 and a collection of readings from the first 25 years of The Recaller entitled "The Past is before us" as well as 24 audiotapes, release forms, and brief content notes for 22 interviews done under a project to create a community oral history archives, and a copy of the resultant volume Belfast people: an oral history of Belfast, Prince Edward Island, edited by Susan Hornby. Also included is the result of a project undertaken to document the history of twenty individual school districts in the Belfast area: Leap over time: history and recollections of one-room schools in the Belfast area, 1803-1968 by Eliza Gillia, Viola Gillis and Linda Jean Nicholson.

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  • English

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NO RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS

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ANY REPRODUCTION OR USE OF THE AUDIOTAPES OR BOOKS REQUIRES THE WRITTEN PERMISSION OF THE BELFAST HISTORICAL SOCIETY

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