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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     More Content       More by this author     Gray, Mildred Reid Grant, 1920-     Subjects     Gray, Mildred Reid Grant, 1920-     Gray, Mildred Reid Grant, 1920- -- Interviews.     Oral history -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island.     Gabarus (N.S.) -- History.     Gabarus (N.S.) -- Anecdotes.     Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- History.     Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Anecdotes.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Gray, Mildred Reid Grant, 1920-       by title:      Bringing out the unt...       by call number:      971.695 G781b     Search the Web     Gray, Mildred Reid Grant, 1920-     Gray, Mildred Reid Grant, 1920-     Gray, Mildred Reid Grant, 1920- -- Interviews.     Oral history -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island.     Gabarus (N.S.) -- History.     Gabarus (N.S.) -- Anecdotes.     Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- History.     Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Anecdotes.       MARC Display

Bringing out the untold life : recollections of Mildred Reid Grant Gray : an oral history / related to Claire E. Scheuren. by Gray, Mildred Reid Grant, 1920- Zeitgeist West, c2013. Call #: 971.695 G781b Subjects Gray, Mildred Reid Grant, 1920-   Gray, Mildred Reid Grant, 1920- -- Interviews.   Oral history -- Nova Scotia -- Cape Breton Island.   Gabarus (N.S.) -- History.   Gabarus (N.S.) -- Anecdotes.   Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- History.   Cape Breton Island (N.S.) -- Anecdotes. ISBN:  9780979692130 (hc.) 9780979692116 (pbk.) Alternate title:  Untold life : recollections of Mildred Reid Grant Gray : an oral history Description:  243 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Notes:  "Canadian morse code operator chronicles nine decades in historic Cape Breton fishing village"--T.p. "Highlights of Gabarus History"--T.p. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references. Summary:  "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. Now we need multiple institutions to do what Mrs. Gray and the other telegraph and switchboard operators did. Currently, Mrs. Gray resides in her lifetime home of Gabarus Village on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada where she is a direct descendant of its 18th century European settlers"--Provided by publisher. Genre:  Memoirs. Other authors:  Scheuren, Claire E. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Alderney Gate Public Library Adult Nonfiction 971.695 G781b Adult books Checked in Add Copy to MyList Central Library Local History Collection 971.695 G781b Non-circulating Local History Room - Central Library, 4th Floor Add Copy to MyList

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