{"exhibit":{"id":259,"title":"Canadian Public Figures on Tape","description":"<p style=\"text-align:left;\"><span>During the early 1970s, Dr. Richard Alway conducted a series of interviews on tape in affiliation with the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE). The series, called \"Canadian Public Figures on Tape\", consists of ten interviews with prominent Canadian politicans, in which the interview subjects discuss their lives, their careers, and their personal views on Canadian national identity.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"320\" height=\"240\" style=\"width:100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/play.library.utoronto.ca\/S1TkDmDQnG3u?embed=true\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Richard Alway reflects on <em>Canadian Public Figures on Tape<\/em> fifty years later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Timestamps<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>How it got started (1:22)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>History class in 1960s ()<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><span>Interview process (7:02)<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Personalities of subjects (7:45)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Hindsight (9:25)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\">Two positions of Quebec identity (11:20)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>BACKGROUND<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanadian Public Figures on Tape\u201d was designed to fill a perceived gap in the Canadian high school social studies curriculum identified during the late 1960s by OISE\u2019s bestselling book <a href=\"http:\/\/go.utlib.ca\/cat\/2436363\"><em>What Culture? What Heritage?<\/em><\/a> (A. B. Hodgetts, 1968). In a country-wide study coinciding with Canada\u2019s centennial, Hodgetts uncovered that Canadian history and civics classes were constricted to what he described as \u201cbench-bound\u201d learning, where students memorized history textbooks at their desks, and that the Canadian history curriculum itself was inconsistent from province to province. Together with John Main, the head of OISE Press, Alway began the \u201cCanadian Public Figures on Tape\u201d project as a way for high school students across Canada to engage with the political issues of their time, and as a resource for future students to learn about the personalities, challenges, and triumphs of contemporary politicians.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:left;\">The project began as a series of six interviews with Lester Pearson, John Diefenbaker, <span>Ren\u00e9 L\u00e9vesque<\/span>, Maurice Lamontagne, Tommy Douglas, Walter Gordon, and a recording of a public interview held by Joey Smallwood and Jack Pickersgill at the\u00a01971 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association. Interviews with Judy LaMarsh, Paul Martin Sr., and an individual interview with Jack Pickersgill were later added to the series.<\/p>\n<p><span><span>HOW CAN I LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEWS?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The interviews were originally recorded onto open reels that were condensed, edited, and sold as commercial tapes. The edited interview tape recording for each politician can be found on their corresponding page. Surviving recordings of the unedited interviews are also provided for each subject when available. All audio files are accompanied by downloadable PDF transcripts.<\/p>","credits":"OISE Library","featured":0,"public":1,"theme":"","theme_options":"a:4:{s:11:\"UTL-generic\";a:4:{s:4:\"logo\";N;s:12:\"header_image\";N;s:11:\"footer_text\";s:0:\"\";s:24:\"display_footer_copyright\";s:1:\"0\";}s:13:\"story_nations\";a:4:{s:4:\"logo\";N;s:12:\"header_image\";N;s:11:\"footer_text\";s:0:\"\";s:24:\"display_footer_copyright\";s:1:\"0\";}s:23:\"omeka_collections_theme\";a:4:{s:4:\"logo\";N;s:12:\"header_image\";N;s:11:\"footer_text\";s:0:\"\";s:24:\"display_footer_copyright\";s:1:\"0\";}s:7:\"seasons\";a:7:{s:11:\"style_sheet\";s:6:\"winter\";s:4:\"logo\";N;s:11:\"footer_text\";s:0:\"\";s:24:\"display_footer_copyright\";s:1:\"0\";s:17:\"item_file_gallery\";s:1:\"0\";s:19:\"use_advanced_search\";s:1:\"1\";s:12:\"exhibits_nav\";s:4:\"side\";}}","slug":"canadian-public-figures","added":"2018-12-05 13:39:25","modified":"2025-03-24 13:55:56","owner_id":107,"use_summary_page":0,"cover_image_file_id":10231},"item":{"id":17664,"item_type_id":6,"collection_id":336,"featured":0,"public":1,"added":"2019-05-02 14:38:47","modified":"2023-11-03 14:24:36","owner_id":107}}