In 1998 the Women s History Network of British Columbia applied to the BC Heritage Trust for funding to support an oral history project to document the career of Margaret Ormsby. WHN s membership consists of members of educational institutions, local history groups, museum and archives representatives, women s organizations and other interested persons and groups. The Ormsby project sought to clarify her contribution to the historiography of the province and her role as educator and teacher, as well as her personality and her relationship to other people. With the support of Heritage Trust, the WHN engaged the services of Dr. Ruth Sandwell who prepared interview questions, conducted the interviews and developed a comprehensive subject index to the interviews. The fonds consists of forty-one interviews with thirty eight colleagues, family, students and friends of Margaret Ormsby.
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Top Series Descriptions Project Records series. - 1999. 13 cm of textual records. Most of the tape guides also include a detailed account of subjects discussed in each five minute segment of the interview. The tape guide concludes with an index of the subjects covered in the interview. Indexes from each interview have been integrated into a central index which is available as part of the fonds.