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Elsie Dean, 99 years old at the time of this interview, grew up in Saskatchewan during the 1920s and '30s. She describes the impact of the Depression on her family's livelihood. Educated to Grade 8 in a one-room school, Elsie took correspondence education for Grades 9 and 10, then took a job with room and board to save enough to finish high school, which she did.

Moving to Vancouver in 1942, she worked for a small lumber mill but was fired for organizing workers into the…