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Description
Mr. Clemett discusses the revamped educational system and being selected to work for the railroad
Transcription
Well I'm perfectly in good health and (inaudible) was exactly as everybody felt. We were back home again and going to be able to carry on in an individual way. Fortunately the government took over on that angle and provided schooling for you if you wanted school and months of schooling at 70 dollars a month so that's the way it was put in. And if it was a trade that you thought you'd like or if you didn't qualify for it the government puts you in a business or trade where they thought you belonged and that's how it worked out. Fortunately I was connected to the Canadian Pacific Railroad and I spent many, many years over ten years with the railroad. I trained as an employee of the station. Like a, like a station agent along that line. That's the job I was given. I wasn't presented as an agent in the first thing. I spent four years before I got into, into an operators job, an agents job. The rest of the time my work was in the barns handling the freight; receiving the freight and dealing it out properly and other odd jobs that would occur around the station.