Name: Web of Stories, Page 3, Clip 6 - William Babij by Zembrzycki
Duration: 1 min 40 s
Description: William Babij speaks about how his mother would get up in the middle of the night to feed his father’s bosses; this was one way to ensure that he would continue to have a job at the mine. Clip Length: 1:40

William Babij speaks about how his mother would get up in the middle of the night to feed his father’s bosses; this was one way to ensure that he would continue to have a job at the mine. Clip Length: 1:40

Web of Stories, Page 3, Clip 6 - William Babij

Baba recounts her memories of the Chinese man who had a laundry business on this lot, remembering how she and her friends teased him.

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Memoryscape, Clip 20 - The Chinese Laundry

Baba recounts the Priemski family and the fundraising functions held in their boarding house for St. Mary’s Ukrainian Catholic Church; the house was demolished and the lot is now empty.

Memoryscape, Clip 21 - The Priemski Boarding House

Baba remembers her interactions with the bank’s manager and his role in the community.

Memoryscape, Clip 22 - The Bank

Baba speaks about her childhood memories of this home, where she spent her childhood.

Memoryscape, Clip 24 - The House on Frood Road

Baba shares her memories of this lane, which is located behind the home in which she spent the bulk of her childhood.

Memoryscape, Clip 23 - The Back Lane

The Burke family used to live in this apartment building. Baba was close friends with Lorraine and Irene Burke and recounts her memories of playing with them in the neighbourhood.

Memoryscape, Clip 25 - The Burke Family

Before St. David’s Catholic school was built, this was an empty lot. Baba recounts the fun she and her friends and brothers had here. This is the last stop in the neighbourhood, if you are walking the route.

Memoryscape, Clip 26 - St. David's School

Stacey Zembrzycki was born and raised in Sudbury, Ontario, and currently resides in Montreal, Quebec, where she teaches in the Department of History and Classics at Dawson College. The granddaughter of two miners who came from Warsaw, Poland, and Mossey River, Manitoba, to work in Sudbury’s nickel mines in the postwar period, she spent the bulk of her childhood in their homes, listening to their stories but mostly those told by her grandmothers.

Web of Stories, Page 3, Clip 6 - William Babij

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