Interview with Elizabeth Inez Freeman
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1979
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Freeman, Elizabeth Inez
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Audio recording and transcript of Elizabeth Inez Freeman's 1979 interview with Bernard McNicholl for the Coal Tyee History Project. Freeman, whose father was a coal miner, shares her memories about growing up in Nanaimo and living close to the Number 1 Esplanade Mine. She also shares the story of her mother's memory of the 1887 explosion at the Number 1 Esplanade Mine and her own memories about the Vancouver Island Coal Miners' Strike.