Bringing Out the Untold Life, Recollections of Mildred Reid Grant Gray

Scheuren, Claire E; Claire E Scheuren

ISBN 10: 097969213X / ISBN 13: 9780979692130

Published by Zeitgeist West, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Bringing Out the Untold Life, Recollections of Mildred Reid Grant Gray
• Publisher: Zeitgeist West
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 097969213X
• ISBN 13: 9780979692130
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Canadian Morse Code Operator Chronicles Nine Decades In Historic Cape Breton Fishing Village. 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. This comprehensive oral history includes maps, historic photographs, a 50-page section of Highlights of Gabarus History, and an extensive bibliography. Gabarus featured in the two sieges of Fortress Louisbourg, turning points in the Anglo-French imperial struggle for what is today the nation of Canada.