Audio
In the first 100 years of the University of Alberta, special events, key speeches (such as Convocation addresses), interviews, and performances were recorded. The Audio component of the Digital Archives makes some of this historic material accessible.
This database has been designed to help you conduct two kinds of searches for University of Alberta Archives audio files. You can search either by keyword (i.e., people, faculties, schools, departments, clubs, events, etc.) or by accession number. Simply enter your search criteria in the appropriate field and click “Search”. Alternatively, you can search by category by choosing the desired category from the drop-down menu and clicking “View Audio”.
- Interview with Helen Johns, wife of the university’s sixth president, Walter Johns
- Helen Johns tells about her family, her education, the Great Depression, her desire to intern as a dietician, her work as a teacher in Ottawa, and her marriage to Walter Johns in Waterloo (Ontario). She tells how she and Dr. Johns arrived in Alberta in 1938 and stayed at St. Stephen’s College before moving onto campus and living in the Ring Houses. She describes the Faculty Women’s Club and the role of a university president’s wife.
- Date: August 1982
- Accession Number: 81-163-55-A
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- Interview by Bill Nakamura with Dr. Harry Ernest Bulyea, former Director of the Department of Dentis
- Dr. Bulyea recounts his experiences in the department, particularly those involving the caring for children’s teeth. He also shares his recollections of Allan Coates Rankin and of the Schools of Medicine and Dentistry at that time. He also shares insights into Banting, Best, and Macleod’s work in diabetes research.
- Date: December 1974
- Accession Number: 77-191-1
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- Interview by Bill Nakamura with Dr. Harry Ernest Bulyea, former Director of the Department of Dentis
- Dr. Bulyea came to the University for the 1919-20 session to teach dentistry in the Faculty of Medicine. He was appointed Director of the Department of Dentistry in 1924 and of the School of Dentistry in 1930, retiring in 1942. He describes the use of cocaine as a numbing agent, the filling of teeth, and refined foods. He also shares a little of his family history.
- Date: December 1974
- Accession Number: 77-191-2-A
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- Interview by George Melnyk with Norman Yates, a professor in the Department of Art and Design (1954-1989) and renowned landscape painter
- Norman Yates discusses his experiences as a student at the Ontario College of Art in Toronto just after WWII and changes in the art world from that time to the late 1980s. He also discusses how he and a colleague opened the Laurentian School of Art, how his travels in Europe affirmed his choice of vocation, how he came to teach at the University of Alberta, and how Expo ’67 contributed to the growth of commercial galleries in Canada.
- Date: Unknown
- Accession Number: 82-166-1B
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- Interview by George Melnyk with Norman Yates, a professor in the Department of Art and Design (1954-1989) and renowned landscape painter
- Norman Yates shares his thoughts on the commercial world of art and exhibiting and explains how his travels, particularly in the West and in England, have influenced his body of work. He talks about the free association of memories and about the artist in motion and what that means in relation to space and spatial concept. He discusses limitlessness, openness, and spirituality in his art.
- Date: Unknown
- Accession Number: 82-166-1A
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- Interview by George Melnyk with Norman Yates, a professor in the Department of Art and Design (1954-1989) and renowned landscape painter
- Norman Yates talks about the feeling of the funnel and the influence of cynicism, urbanization, greed, and despair on his art of the late 1960s and early 1970s: it gradually evolved into a recognition of spatial content of the prairie. He discusses compression and the discarding of perspective and how such works gradually became popular.
- Date: Unknown
- Accession Number: 82-166-2A
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- Interview with Helen Johns, wife of the university’s sixth president, Walter Johns
- Helen Johns describes the duties of the university president and of his wife, the importance of the university community’s contributing to the community beyond its halls, convocation, the Drama Club, and men’s and women’s fraternities and their respective
- Date: Aug-82
- Accession Number: 81-163-55-B
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- Interviews by Allan Hepburn with Dr. John Smith (“Smitty”) Gardner and Dr. James Nixon, both medica
- Drs. John Smith (“Smitty”) Gardner (Alberta; 1934) and James Nixon (McGill; 1935) who attended the University of Alberta around the same time share recollections of professorial staff at that time, including John James Ower, Douglas Leitch, Harold Orr, Fr
- Date: 1-Sep-73
- Accession Number: 73-159-2
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- Interviews by Allan Hepburn with Dr. John Smith (“Smitty”) Gardner and Dr. James
- Drs. John Smith (“Smitty”) Gardner (Alberta; 1934) and James Nixon (McGill; 1935) who attended the University of Alberta around the same time share recollections of professorial staff at that time, including Egerton Pope, H.H. Hepburn, William (“Billy”) Rowan, “Daddy” Revel, Reuben B. Sandin, Charles (“Broken Ass Charlie”) Hunter, Evan Greene, Herbert (“Bert”) Edward Rawlinson, John William Scott, Allan Coates Rankin, and John James Ower.
- Date: 21 September 1973
- Accession Number: 73-159-1
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- U of A Archives, E.A. Corbett
- U of A Archives, E.A. Corbett
- Date: Unknown
- Accession Number: 75-4-1
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- U of A Archives, E.A. Corbett
- U of A Archives, E.A. Corbett
- Date: Unknown
- Accession Number: 75-4-2
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