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Wah completed an undergraduate degree in Literature and Music at the University of British Columbia, where he became a founding editor of the TISH newsletter in 1961, and has taught at Selkirk College, the David Thompson University Centre, and the University of Calgary. The fonds contains a number of interviews, conversations, lectures, and public readings recorded between the years 1976 and 2006, featuring local and national literary and media figures such as Lorna Crozier, bpNichol, Daphne Marlatt, and Stuart McLean."],"collection_source_collection_id":["MsC 17"],"persistent_url":[""],"item_title":["Fred Wah Interviewed by Mary Howes in Wah's Office at the University of Calgary on October 31, 1993 "],"item_title_source":["item, j-card"],"item_title_note":["Liner notes: see the photo in material description"],"item_language":["English"],"item_production_context":["Broadcast"],"item_identifiers":["[]"],"rights":["Copyright Not Evaluated (CNE)"],"creator_names":["Wah, Fred","Howes, Mary"],"creator_names_search":["Wah, Fred","Howes, Mary"],"creators":["[{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/1330211\",\"name\":\"Wah, Fred\",\"dates\":\"1939–\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Reader\"]},{\"url\":\"http://viaf.org/viaf/104109241\",\"name\":\"Howes, Mary\",\"dates\":\"1941–\",\"notes\":\"\",\"nation\":[],\"role\":[\"Interviewer\"]}]"],"contributors":["[]"],"Production_Date":[1993],"material_description":["[{\"side\":\"\",\"image\":\"../Uploads/8099/Fred Wah Fonds_MsC 17e_22.jpg\",\"other\":\"\",\"extent\":\"1/8 inch\",\"AV_types\":\"Audio\",\"tape_brand\":\"\",\"generations\":\"Second generation\",\"Conservation\":\"\",\"equalization\":\"\",\"playback_mode\":\"\",\"playing_speed\":\"\",\"sound_quality\":\"Excellent\",\"recording_type\":\"Analogue\",\"storage_capacity\":\"\",\"physical_condition\":\"Excellent\",\"track_configuration\":\"\",\"material_designation\":\"Cassette\",\"physical_composition\":\"Magnetic Tape\",\"accompanying_material\":\"j-card\",\"other_physical_description\":\"Black and white clear jewel case with J-card\"}]"],"material_designations":["Cassette"],"physical_compositions":["Magnetic Tape"],"recording_type":["Analogue"],"AV_type":["Audio"],"digital_description":["[{\"file_url\":\"https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/_flysystem/fedora/2025-03/MSC17E-22/MSC17E-22-01.mp3\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"MSC17E-22-01.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:21:12\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"20.4 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/fred-wah-interviewed-mary-howes-wahs-office-university-calgary-october-31-1993-part-1\"},{\"file_url\":\"https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/fred-wah-interviewed-mary-howes-wahs-office-university-calgary-october-31-1993-part-2\",\"file_path\":\"\",\"filename\":\"MSC17E-22-02.mp3\",\"channel_field\":\"Stereo\",\"sample_rate\":\"44.1 kHz\",\"duration\":\"T00:47:18\",\"precision\":\"\",\"size\":\"45.4 MB\",\"bitrate\":\"32 bit\",\"encoding\":\"WAV for master files and .MP3 for online files\",\"contents\":\"\",\"notes\":\"\",\"title\":\"\",\"credit\":\"\",\"caption\":\"\",\"content_type\":\"Sound Recording\",\"featured\":\"\",\"public_access_url\":\"https://digital.lib.sfu.ca/fred-wah-interviewed-mary-howes-wahs-office-university-calgary-october-31-1993-part-2\"}]"],"Dates":["[{\"date\":\"1993-10-31\",\"type\":\"Production Date\",\"notes\":\"\",\"source\":\"item, j-card\"}]"],"Location":["[{\"url\":\"https://www.openstreetmap.org/way/4973042#map=19/51.07909/-114.12691\",\"venue\":\"University of Calgary - Department of English (Fred Wah's Office)\",\"notes\":\"Recording took place at Fred Wah's office, presumably somewhere in the Social Sciences Building where the Department of English is located at the University of Calgary \",\"address\":\"Social Sciences, 500 Campus Place NW, Charleswood, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N7, Canada\",\"latitude\":\"51.07912\",\"longitude\":\"-114.12695\"}]"],"Address":["Social Sciences, 500 Campus Place NW, Charleswood, Calgary, Alberta, T2N 1N7, Canada"],"Venue":["University of Calgary - Department of English (Fred Wah's Office)"],"City":["Calgary, Alberta"],"content_notes":["Side 1: Complete interview\nSide 2: Repeated ending segment of interview, recording ends at T00:08:50\n\n"],"Note":["[{\"note\":\"Tape is likely second generation: a segment of the interview is repeated on Side B of the tape.\",\"type\":\"General\"}]"],"Related_works":["[]"],"_version_":1853670556054847488,"timestamp":"2026-01-07T15:00:00.367Z","score":5.019931}]