Interview with Elizabeth Inez Freeman

Audio recording and transcript of Elizabeth Inez Freeman's 1979 interview with Bernard McNicholl for the Coal Tyee History Project. Freeman, whose father was a coal miner, shares her memories about growing up in Nanaimo and living close to the Number 1 Esplanade Mine. She also shares the story of her mother's memory of the 1887 explosion at the Number 1 Esplanade Mine and her own memories about the Vancouver Island Coal Miners' Strike.