File f46 - Kuehner, Grace, nee Weese

File consists of a recording of Grace Kuehner. Topics of the conversation include parents' provision for subject's education; graduation of sister, 1902. Queen's campus during WWI ; Armistice Day. Student preoccupation with personal affairs, lack of serious political discussion. Limited career opportunities for women. Student summer-waitressing at Lake Louise. General satisfaction of women with their lots, lack of feminist resentments; women's paid work seen as interlude before marriage. Subject's switch from Sciences to Arts to avoid Queen's lab fees. Engagement to husband at Queen's; three years teaching before marriage to raise money. Husband's position at Bishop's University, Lennoxville, Quebec; parties for Bishop's students; faculty members from England. Affluence of students, personal security throughout Depression. Married trip to Europe,1928. Lennoxville during WWII: blackout regulations, lODE war-work, community relief­work. Problems with rebellious students at Bishop's University. Quebec political problems (after subject's departure, 1964). CEGEP controversy. Bilingual ability, courtesy, of French-speaking people in Quebec prior to 1960s; pleasant community relations. Subject's sympathy for French­Canadian grievances, realisation that established Quebeckers may choose not to separate. History of United Empire Loyalists; subject's attachment to monarchy. French­Canadian attitude to England, relations with France. Subject's attitude to women's movement: approval of women's growing self-confidence, family cooperation; disapproval of child-neglect where both parents are working. Subject's present occupations: reading, needlepoint, walking. Reasons for return to Kingston. Niece's research into family history; family reunion held in Kingston.