Item SR-14 to SR-19 - [Interview with Rory McRae]

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[Interview with Rory McRae]

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  • Sound recording

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SR-14 to SR-19

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  • 1975-05-12 (Creation)
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    Buck, Ruth Matheson, 1905-2009
  • 1975-05-12 (Creation)
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    McRae, Roderick, 1888-1977

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6 audio cassettes : 4.75 cm/sec, instantaneous, acoustic (3 hr. 27 min.)

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(1905-2009)

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Jean Ruth Matheson was born on November 24, 1905 at the St. Barnabas Anglican Mission on the Onion Lake First Nation, Saskatchewan to Rev. John Richardson Matheson and Dr. Elizabeth Matheson (née Scott). Known as Ruth, she was the seventh of nine children. Matheson received her secondary and post-secondary education in Winnipeg, Manitoba, graduating from the University of Manitoba in 1928.

Matheson began her career as a teacher first in Manitoba and later in Saskatchewan. After marrying Geoffrey J. Buck in 1933, she moved to Regina with her family in 1946. In 1953, Ruth Buck was elected to the Regina Collegiate Board, serving as chair when the Board amalgamated with the Public School Board in 1966. She was elected to Regina's first Board of Education, and served on that board until her retirement in 1967.

After her retirement, Ruth Buck began writing articles and books, centred primarily around the history of Saskatchewan and the Prairies. The 1970s were her most prolific years, during which she published the book "Voices of the Plains Cree" (1973), the stories of Chief Thunderchild which had been collected by the Reverend Edward Ahenakew and edited by Buck; and "The Doctor Rode Sidesaddle" (1974), the biography of her mother Dr. Elizabeth Matheson, one of the first female doctors in Canada.

In 1974, an elementary school in Regina was dedicated to Ruth M. Buck in honour of her years of service on the Board of Education, and for her lifelong commitment to education.

Ruth Matheson and Geoffrey Buck had one daughter, Judith.

Ruth M. Buck died on July 6, 2009 in Pilot Butte, Saskatchewan.

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(1888-1977)

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Interview conducted by Ruth Buck of Rory McRae. Born in 1888, McRae reminisces about growing up in Onion Lake, about attending the Anglican mission school there, and about various life experiences as an adult.

SR 14: Includes reminiscences about McRae's family and his schooling. (60m 00s)

SR 15: Includes reminiscences about life at the mission school, Saskatoon berries, bread baking, odd jobs, surveying, and lumbering. (57m 30s)

SR 16: Includes reminiscences about the summer of 1915, travelling the House River to Fort McMurray and the building of a telegraph line, boots and moccasins, the winter of 1915-1916, breaking trail, the Tyrell incident, and Fort McPherson in 1923. (60m 00s)

SR 17: Includes a recitation of Drummond's poem, and reminiscences about forest fire ranging, Fort Fitzgerald, trapping and trading, and travelling to Aklavik, Lampson, Hubbard and Fort McPherson. (60m 00s)

SR 18: Includes reminiscences about travelling to Herschel Island, and from Herschel Island to Aklavik. (60m 00s)

SR 19: Includes reminiscences about boat building at Herschel Island, hangings at Herschel and at Fort Smith, travelling up-river from Aklavik, tracking barges, a windstorm, Great Slave Lake, and Edmonton. (30m 00s)

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SAFA 425 (old guide GR 156) consists of a fonds level description, file level listings of textual records, and item level descriptions of certain photographs and audio cassettes.

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SR-14 to SR-19

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Saskatchewan Archives. Archival Description Manual 2004.

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  • English

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  • Latin

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