Frank Irving McDonald interviewed by Mel Pratt for the Mel Pratt collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 728054
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- McDonald, Frank Irving, 1897-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1975 Feb. 20 - 1975 Mar. 6
- 1 tape reel (ca. 117 min.) : 1 7/8 ips, mono. ; 5 in.
- Series:
- Mel Pratt collection.
- Summary:
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Mr McDonald talks of his early life in Victoria and Canberra; his memories of the buildings existing in 1925; the shops at Kingston; transport; banks at Civic; housing at Kingston, Narrabundah, Braddon; the building of Hotel Canberra, Parliament House, Hotels Action, Kurrajong, Wellington, Canberra, Ainslie; Friday night shopping; the Depression; railways; entertainment; hospital; married quarters; Causeway cottages; Queanbeyan's relationship with Canberra; police; sport; roads; Captain's Flat and Bungendore; flash floods; the Cotter; Pine Plantation; changes in seasons over last 50 years; shopkeepers; purchase and resuming of Stations.
- Biography/History:
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Frank McDonald was born at Terang in Victoria and came to Canberra in 1923. He was one of Canberra's longest and best known residents.
- Notes:
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- Recorded at the Canberra Club.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-221569147
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and uncorrected transcript (typescript, 61 leaves).
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Pratt, Mel, -1986, interviewer
- Related Records:
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This belongs to the Mel Pratt collection.
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