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Lena Ferguson fonds
Fonds · 1974-2001
Fonds consists of approximately 137 hours of oral history interviews conducted by Lena Ferguson. Most interviewees were residents of the Eastern Shore region of Halifax County, particularly the Chezzetcook area. Interview topics include genealogy, local industries, occupations, music, shipping, community life, traditions, and folklore. In addition to interviews, the creator recorded school reunions, concerts, weddings, and church anniversaries. Several paper transcripts are included as well as scrapbooks featuring articles written by Lena and other newspaper articles regarding the Chezzetcook area. 2019.014
Audio recordings
Series · 1975-2001
Part of Lena Ferguson fonds
Series consists primarily of audio recordings of oral history interviews with local residents of the Eastern Shore, mainly the Chezzetcook area. Also included are some recordings featuring music, concerts, Chezzetcook Historical Society events, and excerpts and information read by Lena Ferguson. 2019.014
Transcripts
Series · 1974- 1984
Part of Lena Ferguson fonds
Series consists of typed transcripts of excerpts from some interview recordings that Lena Ferguson conducted. Includes a transcript of the first thirty minutes of her interview with Mary Antoinette “Nettie” Bellefontaine and an excerpt of her interview with Lillian Bellefontaine regarding a whale oil lamp. Also includes transcripts of Lena’s interviews with Vera Bellefontaine-Doutez, transcripts of Lena reading from a scrapbook belonging to Phyllis Bellefontaine Graham’s parents which contains clippings from as early as 1922 regarding the history of West Chezzetcook and Grand Desert. Also includes transcripts from an interview with Aurele Bellefontaine. In addition there is a transcript of a speech by Helen Creighton to the Folklore Association of Canada. This audio recording has not been digitized. Transcripts of interviews with Edward and Sophie Lapierre and Mr. and Mrs. Stewart Rowlings are also included as well as an address given to the Chezzetcook Historical Society by Ray Blakney regarding the history of Chezzetcook and the Eastern Shore and an interview with Herbert Fillis of Grand Desert by Ray Blakney, neither of which are digitized. Also included in this series are records from the Nova Scotia Archives regarding the content and extent of the recordings done by Lena Ferguson. S2