Damase Bouvier was born July 23, 1898 in St. Damase, Québec. He had eight siblings and his family moved to Massachusetts. At approximately age 14, Bouvier moved to Lac LaBiche, Alberta.
Early in his career, he worked as a train operator for the railroad on the line between Edmonton and Waterways, which has now been amalgamated into Fort McMurray. He later went into the poultry business in Northern Alberta until W.W.II. broke out.
Damase Bouvier had married Cecile Wilson and they had four children; one boy and three girls.
On January 10 1942, Bouvier was hired by the National Film Board (NFB) as a rural circuit projectionist to show NFB films to communities in Northern Alberta. In this position, he discussed with parishes what films were needed, advised film councils and taught people how to use film projectors. He later acquired professional recording equipment and produced a program named "Talent from the Towns." The program captured folk music from Northern Alberta and was aired on CKUA at the University of Alberta on Friday evenings. He was active in helping orphans during his time at the National Film Board as he would volunteer his time to show films for free to orphanages around Northern Alberta where he was working. He worked for NFB until he retired at age 65. In his retirement he made souvenir discs from his recordings and the souvenir discs were distributed to the people he recorded.
Damase Bouvier died November 23, 1977.
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Fonds contains textual records and audio recordings created by Damase [Dan] Bouvier.
and Rene Georgopalis, September, 2012.
Presto recording equipment used in creating these discs are in the museum collection at the Musée Héritage Museum, accession number 2004.04.
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Series contains master discs of National Film Board recordings. Damase Bouvier was contracted by the National Film Board to make recordings of francophone people in rural Alberta.
The discs were arranged alphabetically by region of the recording. The order used by Damase Bouvier is unknown. There were numbers assigned by Bouvier to each record as well as numbers and notes written on the records by his family.
Disc quality deteriorates with each playback.
The records were in the custody of Dan Bouvier and passed on to his family who kept the records for some time and made a recording for Dan Bouvier's wedding anniversary. The family donated the records to the Musée.
Access restricted for preservation purposes. Audio recordings are subject to Copyright law.
Item list available
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The original number assigned was 90A
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Disc includes a short history of the town of Donatville. It includes recordings of local children playing musical instruments and singing songs such as "Jesus Loves Me," and "Way Back in the Hills." The second side of the disc includes various recordings of musical performances. The subject matter and location of side two is unknown.
The audio disc is available in .aiff and .mp3.
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Recording of local musicians performing songs such as "You are Only Teasing Me," "Fated Oh Lone Letter," and " I Know What it Means to be Lonely." The second side of the disc includes various musical recordings but the locations and content is unidentified.
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File contains two copies of a Catholic calendar and an accompanying Christmas letter written by Dan Bouvier describing how to use the calendar.