This episode we speak with royalty, McGill royalty to be precise. Step back in time to 1949, 1951 and 1958, as Beryl Rapier, Dorothy Baxter and Rae Tucker Rambally bring us back to mid-century McGill Winter Carnival days. Relive their days as campus royalty.
Explore Additional Content:
- See a full slide show of photos on our Blog, Library Matters
- See the full transcript here
- Play Quiz That So, a McGill Library game that unites McGillians from throughout history in a trivia challenge that will test your wits. Host Max McMartlet and the game itself was inspired by a McGill Winter Carnival Programme from 1951.
- Hear more from Beryl in Episode 11: Generations Part 1.
- Listen to CBC's The Doc Project by Julia Lipscombe, How Montrealer Beryl Dickinson-Dash made history as McGill's first Black queen of Carnival.
- Eliza McCullum. “Queen of the Campus: The McGill Winter Carnival Queen, 1948-1969.” Canadian Content: The McGill Undergraduate Journal of Canadian Studies, Vol. 11, Spring 2019. Accessed Feb 1, 2022. https://www.mcgill.ca/misc/files/misc/canadian_content_2019.pdf
Credits
· Host: Sheetal Lodhia
· Producer and Editor: Jacquelyn Sundberg
· Transcription & Research: Labiba Faiza
· Research Assistance: Michelle Macleod
Guests:
· Beryl Rapier
· Dorothy Baxter
· Rae Tucker Rambally
Music
· Title song: Happy Sandbox, by Mativve, sourced from Freesound.org, CC BY 3.0
· Transitions:
o It’s Winter Carnival Time. Merry Martlets. Presented by the Graduates' Society of McGill University, the Merry Martlets appeared courtesy of the McGill Choral Society under the direction of Gifford Mitchell. Copyright McGill University.
o Hail Alma Mater. Presented by the Graduates' Society of McGill University, the Merry Martlets appeared courtesy of the McGill Choral Society under the direction of Gifford Mitchell. Copyright McGill University.
o Old Fashioned auto Piano, by Razzvio, Sourced from Freesound.org, CC BY 3.0
· End credits: Happy-music, by monkeyman355, CC BY 3.0
