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Summary
One of a series of interviews conducted by Christina Gillgren in preparation for her thesis entitled From aliens to ethnics : identity and citizenship in a study of Italians and Croatians in the Western Australian Southwest timber industry, 1919-1969. John Scott spent a lot of time near the Donnelly Mill in the early days after the war because he was in charge of construction there. He talks about his work in the timber industry and the various nationalities who were employed. Transcripts for this and the other interviews are in one CD.UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Register - Migration Voices Oral Histories.
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This sound recording has been preserved and made available by the Oral History Records Rescue Group (OHRRG) Project supported by Lotterywest. Incomplete transcript. Only parts relevant to immigrants in the timber industry are included in detail.
Subjects
- Construction workers -- Western Australia -- Donnelly -- Interviews.
- Immigrants -- Western Australia -- Donnelly.
- Lumber trade -- History. -- Western Australia -- Donnelly
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