File 01: Bachan Kaur Alamwala ➔ [Interview with Bachan Kaur Alamwala and Jasmer Kaur Alamwala]
Item
Identifier:
2022_13_01_012
Repository
Repository Web Site
https://www.ufv.ca/sasi/
Date
May 2008;Date(s) of creation
Extent
Audio (31 min., 08 sec.)
Format
sound recording
Description
Audio interview of Bachan Kaur Alamwala and Jasmer Kaur Alamwala taken on May 19, 2008. The interview starts with questions related to Bachan Kaur's and Jasmer Kaur's life in Canada, their villages in India, and the years when they both got married. Bachan Kaur moved to Canada to reunite with her husband, Sarwan who was working at a sawmill in Honeymoon Bay. She moved in 1949 with the couple's two children, daughter Surinder, and son Jasvir. Jasmer Kaur also immigrated to Canada to join her husband, and in 1959 arrived with her eight month old son, Harminder. The interviewer asks them questions related to the pay their husbands received at that time from the mill in Honeymoon Bay. Bachan and Jasmer tell their experiences of working on a farms and wearing dresses outside the house.
Location
British Columbia;New Westminster Land District;Fraser Valley Regional District;Abbotsford
Language
English;Punjabi
Rights Statement
Copyright not evaluated
Subject Headings - SACDA
South Asian Canadian women
Subject Headings - Library of Congress
Emigration and immigration [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85042782];Women--Canada--Biography [http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010118699]