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Jackie Crossland

Jackie Crossland

Jackie Crossland- Part One
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Jackie Crossland- Part Two
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Jackie Crossland- Part Three
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Jackie Crossland- Part Four
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Jackie Crossland- Part Five
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Jackie Crossland- Part Six
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Jackie Crossland- Part Seven
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Jackie Crossland- Part Eight
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Jackie Crossland- Part Nine
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Jackie Crossland- Part Ten
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Jackie Crossland- Part Eleven
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Collection: 
Jean Walton
Language: 
English
In this eleven-part interview, late Vancouver actor Jackie Crossland talks about moving to Vancouver, her marriage to a man, work and university education, the Vancouver film and theatre scenes in the 1970s, her time working on Robert Altman's 1971 film McCabe & Mrs. Miller, her foray into writing and directing plays, and coming to terms with her identity as a lesbian.
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Simon Fraser University, moving, marriage, heterosexual marriage, immigration, pulp mill, lumber camps, mining, work, unions, work opportunities, education, leftists, communists, Communism, housework, full time work, wages, night classes, career advancement, Hudson’s Bay Company, female attraction, noticing women, community college, money struggles, bursaries, student loans, scholarship, Spanish community, theatre, playhouse, arts club, community, university theatre, theatre arts program, Vietnam War, immigrant women, draft, draft dodgers, hippies, American Theatre, British Theatre, Canadian Studies, British radical theatre, comedy, Arthur Miller, Canadian culture, west coast film industry, identity, Shelly Duval, Robert Altman, children, career, self-definition, emotional collapse, metal health, sense of self, divorce, death of husband, lesbian identity, coming out, beauty standards, feminism, lesbian feminists, tours, same-sex partner, Mudflats, carpenters, animal trainers, social life, social life on set
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Interviewee: 
Jackie Crossland
Interviewer: 
Jean Walton
Date of interview: 
2011
Place of interview: 
Canada, British Columbia, Vancouver
Locations mentioned: 
Europe, United Kingdom, England, North America, Canada, British Columbia, Coastal British Columbia, Vancouver Island, Lower Mainland, Maple Ridge, Mission, Vancouver, Ontario, Thunder Bay, Toronto, Quebec, United States, California, Los Angeles, Minnesota, New York, Buffalo
Dates mentioned: 
1920s, 1930s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s
Format: 
Audio
Rights: 
Third-party permission and agreement to CC BY-NC 4.0, donor retains copyrights to donated material
Topics: 
Work, Arts and Culture, Identity
Type: 
Oral history
Author: 
mwalley
Restrictions: 
None