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A gentleman came to the emigration hall and wanted girls for help. Together with her sister, she went to Rosenfeld, Manitoba. Her employer had a 10-month old boy, and she was supposed to look after him and help (the boy's mother) with the household. She was 16 years old at that time, and worked there until fall when she went home.\nHer father had bought a farm in Waskada, Manitoba, and that's where she and her sister went from Rosenfeld.\nOn the train, there was a man selling candies, and she wanted to buy a chocolate bar, and her sister put out a 10 dollar bill, and it was difficult for the man to find change as the chocolate bar was three cents then. She had a 10 dollar bill too. The man was very considerate as they couldn't speak English.\nFast spent about two weeks home before she worked for another family with a baby over the winter. She worked for another farmer during the summer, but as she had to lift up a pail of milk and hang it on a nail, she got problems with her back. So she went to Winnipeg where her sister was already living. She stayed at a girls' home, and started to work for a Jewish family who were very kind. She worked for them for a few years.\nAs she had a sore back, she underwent surgery in the General Hospital in Winnipeg. She left the hospital after three weeks and had no money to pay her rent. The woman who ran the home wanted to help her out and pay the bill until her father would pay it but it turned out that her Jewish employer had paid for her before he had moved to Tel Aviv.\nAfter several weeks, she started to work again, this time for Mrs. McLain. Her husband was a captain in the army. Later, she went to BC for a year, and worked in Vancouver.\nFast's father passed away in 1929, she was at home then, and her mother didn't want to move to BC.\nIn the meantime, Mr. McLain had also died, and Mrs. McLain wanted her back as she couldn't cope with five children alone. She wrote her a letter, and she came back to her. After several years, Mrs. McLain couldn't pay her anymore. She persuaded Fast to start catering as she called Fast \"a born cook\".\nFast would cook and bake, and sometimes even served but at big parties, they had caters to serve. Fast would cater for years.\n\n\n","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795#t=9.0,516.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795/index/52292/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"candies","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cooking","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"domestic workers","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"surgery","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795#t=9.0,516.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795/index/52292/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"emigration hall","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Jews","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795#t=9.0,516.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795/index/52292/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Family life, professional career, traveling, health issues","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795#t=516.0,1494.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795/index/52292/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In 1934, her mother relocated to Winnipeg because their farm in Waskada, Manitoba, was in the dry belt, and the CPR provided the farmers in that area a with train car to take all their implements and to find another farm. Her brother moved on a farm to High Bluff, Manitoba, and her mother moved to Winnipeg.\nFast was the seventh girl in the family. She had also two brothers. All her sisters worked in the Winnipeg area, some of them became school teachers, others house keepers.\nWhen her mother moved to Winnipeg, it was hard for Fast at the beginning in order to support her financially. Fast worked at the kitchen of a country club but that was only seasonal work in the summer.\nIn 1938, her employer as well as one of her sisters passed away. Fast would continue to work part time at the club and catered the rest of the year. When the war broke out in 1939, the country club closed, and she got a job at another club where she would work for four years. After that, she went back to catering again. In 1948, when the country club reopened, she went back to work on a seasonal basis.\nLater, she worked at the Women's University Club on Westgate. When the university auditor controlled the books, it turned out that Fast had used 72 pounds of butter too much but later she was cleared. After three years, she went back to catering (to the Richardson family).\nAround 1965, she took six weeks off in order to travel to Egypt with three other women. On other occasions, Fast would travel to Africa, Scandinavia, South America and India. She would always travel with her three friends. She enjoyed what she called \"God's nature\" which she was more interested in than in architecture. She also loved to talk to people when traveling. That gave her a very different outlook on life.\nFast was in India the last time in 1977, and when she came home, one of her sisters had died. Another sister had a heart attack. From then on, she had to care for her family and couldn't travel anymore but she would drive around with her car, going to Saskatchewan, BC or Ontario. In 1982, her sole surviving sister by then had a stroke, and Fast would look after her. After her stroke, Fast's sister behaved in a very different manner. Her sister also had her foot amputated. Fast would cook for her and bring the food to the hospital so that her sister would eat more. She did that for seven months, and in the meantime, Fast herself had a heart attack. Her sister spent the last five months of her life in a care facility. Three retired nurses would help her caring for her sister. Quite often, her sister wouldn't recognize her. Two days after her sister's funeral, Fast had another heart attack. She states that she has to care for herself to the end as all her sisters have died. A few years ago, Fast had her third heart attack.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795#t=516.0,1494.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795/index/52292/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"catering","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"droughts","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"family life","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"heart attack","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"travel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795#t=516.0,1494.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795/index/52292/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"CPR","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795#t=516.0,1494.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795/index/52292/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Russian Civil War, going to Canada","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795#t=1494.0,1838.27737"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795/index/52292/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fast recalls when she started school in Russia in 1915 at the age of six. She remembers a snowbank. She had nice playmates and used to go to Sunday school. When she was eleven, the communists came and took everything. Fast's family had a very large house which was transformed into a hospital.\nShe recalls that the Red and the White armies went back and forth during the Russian Civil War. Fast's father had owned two farms and a lot of land, and one of the farms was left to the family.\nAt the age of eleven, her mother taught her sewing. The first blouse she made was ok until she came to the cuff. \nFast's schooling was interrupted due to the war. She was at grade 5 or 6 when the war started. Her mother told her to accompany her older sisters to a party or the choir, so Fast was 13 when she started to sing in a choir.\nShe started to have two boyfriends but her mother said: \"Only one at a time\". Fast thinks that because she was uprooted at the age of 16, she never wanted to have another boyfriend. She never married\nFast states that things were very different in Canada, and she had to leave many people behind.\nWhen the communists shut down the churches in Ufa where they were living at that time, Fast's father said it was time to move out, and he chose Canada. There weren't that many people who had money to go. Her father took machinery apart and sold reserves for the machinery, and he made enough money to take his whole family to Canada. There were two orphans, a boy and a girl, who were about 12 or 14, and Fast's father took them to Canada too. They would pay the money back in Canada.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795#t=1494.0,1838.27737"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795/index/52292/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"choirs","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"education","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sewing","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sunday schools","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795#t=1494.0,1838.27737"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795/index/52292/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Russian Civil War","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132795#t=1494.0,1838.27737"}]}]},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796","type":"Canvas","label":{"en":["Media File 2 of 3 - 2005-091-4723.wav"]},"duration":1804.0976,"width":640,"height":40,"thumbnail":[{"id":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/collection_resource_files/thumbnails/000/132/796/small/audio-default.png?1640607661","type":"Image","format":"image/png"}],"items":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796/content/1","type":"AnnotationPage","items":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796/content/2/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"painting","body":{"id":"https://aviary-p-ualberta.s3.wasabisys.com/collection_resource_files/resource_files/000/132/796/original/2005-091-4723.wav?1660930486","type":"Audio","format":"audio/wav","duration":1804.0976,"width":640,"height":40},"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796","metadata":[]}]}],"annotations":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796/index/52291","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Part 2 [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796/index/52291/annotation/1","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Persecution of the church in Soviet Russia, Russian Civil War, repressions","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796#t=29.0,468.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796/index/52291/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fast's father belonged to the Mennonite church. The communists closed all the churches in the village they were living in. There was a Greek Catholic (Orthodox) church with wonderful bells. She still remembers their beautiful sound in the morning when the air was clear. The communists took the bells down and broke them because \"there was no God\". They arrested people and sent them to Siberia as prisoners. The priests were calls \"archierei\" not \"pop\" (in Russian). They were all sent to Siberia. Those who once had had money were taken. Her father was taken too but then \"another flag\" - the Whites - came in, and the prisoners were freed. When the Reds returned, Fast's father was taken again.\nThe interviewer asked if that happened during the de-kulakization, and Fast said yes. Her father was taken to Siberia and came back after some time. Some never came back. It was a time of upheaval.\nFast recalls that they had many chickens, but they were taken away from them because the chickens were re-allocated in proportion to the acres of land tilled by one family. When they had to deliver eggs, they couldn't as their chickens were all gone. It was the same procedure with geese and ducks.\nFast's oldest brother was arrested, he was be gone for years but he came back. Her younger brother stayed at home as much as he could.\nNevertheless, Fast was sad to leave all her friends in Russia. Her family had a big vehicle called \"drozhka\", nearly the whole family could get into it. That was also taken away. Only one vehicle with very old wheels was left to them. They still had a few horses, and she had to ride horseback to the choir practice. She always had to deliver messages to other farmers.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796#t=29.0,468.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796/index/52291/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mennonites","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Russian Civil War","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796#t=29.0,468.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796/index/52291/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Voyage to Canada, language use","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796#t=468.0,591.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796/index/52291/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fast recalls that their voyage to Canada was very smooth. They first went to Riga, and from Riga to Southampton, and from Southampton they boarded a ship called \"Scotland\" and landed in Quebec. They continued their journey to Winnipeg, Manitoba. Fast repeats that they had a very smooth trip as it was very calm on the ocean. She made lots of friends onboard. Besides Mennonites, there were also Poles and Ukrainians on the boat. Fast recalls that her father didn't make any difference between people of different nationalities. On the boat, they spoke either Russian or German. Fast recalls that they had learned English before but when they came to Canada, they wanted a \"knife\" (pronounced with a k at the beginning). She found that people in Canada were very understanding to newcomers who didn't know the language yet. As Fast worked in an English-speaking environment, she learned the language quickly.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796#t=468.0,591.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796/index/52291/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"languages","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796#t=468.0,591.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796/index/52291/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Mennonites","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Poles","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Ukrainians","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Keywords"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796#t=468.0,591.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796/index/52291/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Domestic work, High and Low German","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796#t=591.0,730.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132796/index/52291/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fast explains that the families she initially worked for in Rosenfeld, Manitoba, were Mennonites. Asked about whether she spoke with them in Low or High German, Fast recalls that she spoke High German, \"real German\" as she calls it. They also spoke some English with her so that she would learn the language.\nFast spoke some Low German at home but not much. She repeats that her family spoke \"real German\". When Fast went to school in Russia, she had to do every subject in High German as well as in Russian. As she was the youngest in the family, all her older sisters went to school before where they had to speak High German.\nFast explains that the older people in their village spoke Low German. 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She recalls that in Russia, it was taught that there was no God, and the priests were arrested. She was surprised how many people followed the official Soviet atheism which seemed to Fast the easier way then. In gymnasium, they weren't allowed to mention God. She recalls that there was a boycott of the atheism in a gymnasium but the students were all shot, and the blood was running out of the door.\nStudents were asked at school whether they prayed, and if they said yes, their parents were jailed, killed, or sent away.\nFast recalls that their village was thinned out, as in so many families, a family member was gone.\nShe states that her parents were glad that they had come to Canada \"for that reason that we had a God here\". 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All of her sisters would find good jobs in Canada.\nFast talks about her care home and offers the interviewer some cookies. 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Fast was told by her employer that she was the first girl she could leave alone with her children.\nOne morning, Fast couldn't get up, and her employer called her doctor, and Fast was sent to the general hospital. Initially, they didn't know what happened.\nWhen Fast was hired by the Jewish lady, she told Fast that her husband was working in the Zionist office and that eventually, they would have to move. They did a lot of packing before Fast went to the hospital, and then they went to Tel Aviv. The girl who succeeded Fast was told by the family to pay her medical bill. Fast thinks that they liked her because she knew and accepted the Jewish religion. She tried her best to never take a wrong cup that belonged to either meat or milk. Fast made also sure that the children learned the religious texts they were supposed to learn.\nShe says that her Jewish employers friends. 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It was a golf club, and she worked on a seasonal basis, and the territory was rented from the government for the summer. Officially, it was rented for a dollar. When the war started, the club was closed. Fast thinks that it was because many young men went to war. After the war, the club reopened.\nFast states that there had always been wars going on (she knew it from the bible). She thinks if Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin went together, they would have come to some terms. (Fast has some hearing problems and doesn't understand the interviewer's question about Hitler - she seems to have forgotten who waged war against whom in WW II). Fast says that Churchill as well as Stalin were warriors.\nFast denies that they had been discriminated against \"as a family\" due to their German background during WW II. Many friends of her brother went to war but her brother didn't. She didn't have to report to the RCMP as they already were Canadian citizens by that time. Fast didn't feel any connection to Germany where she had never been. They felt that Hitler was very wrong killing the Jews and attacking Poland. Fast was always told that they were German but they hadn't anything to do with Germany.\nFast resented very much that Canada fought at the same side as Stalin as he was a murderer in her eyes. That was a general feeling in her community.\nShe underlines that her father had a very open mind. Back in Russia, they couldn't buy clothes, they had to be made, and nearly all the tailors were Jewish. Some of them lived with them in their house while they were sewing. Fast recalls that her father was always friendly with those Jewish tailors. She explains a Jewish joke. She never heard her father saying anything antisemitic. Her father would read the Old Testament to his children. \nAsked about the Holocaust, Fast thinks that the Jews maybe took too much money out of the land. However, she can't understand why the Jews were killed by Hitler. Fast recalls a trip to Israel in 1965 where she saw a gate made of bones, human bones that had been brought from Germany. She doesn't remember whether it was in Tel Aviv or Jerusalem. It was somewhere outside the city. There was also an iron gate there. 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They also went to Spain and Rome, Italy, where they saw the celebrations of Palm Sunday. They also visited Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, Greece, Germany, Switzerland and Holland before they returned home. It was too much for her and her friends (six weeks), they never did that again.\nFast's next trip was to South America: Paraguay, Columbia. She recalls that trays would move very much during a flight, and they wouldn't accept any food because of that. They also went to Peru and Equator. Once she got lost there.\nFast also went to Africa, India and Scandinavia. They visited a place that is called \"top of the world\". She was not allowed to go outside without oxygen. It was then that she found out she had heart problems. \nFast recalls that traveling changed her world view. Heaven and earth were not made by hand. She was very much impressed by the big mountains and valleys.  She recalls the beauty of flying over the Himalayas.\n","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132797#t=818.0,1228.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132797/index/52290/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"travel","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132797#t=818.0,1228.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132797/index/52290/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Cooking, Jews","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132797#t=1228.0,1413.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132797/index/52290/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fast recalls that she made all kind of food when she was catering. She explains that boiled eggs is the wrongest diet for anybody to have but it was popular. When she was working at the Women's University Club, they wanted her to become a dietician but she declined.\nIn Jewish homes, smoked turkey was very popular, and for her taste they used too much onions.\nFast states that Jewish people are very talkative, they yell from on end of the table to the other. She tried to avoid that as it was so noisy.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132797#t=1228.0,1413.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132797/index/52290/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"catering","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"eggs","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}},{"type":"TextualBody","value":"nutrition","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Subjects"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132797#t=1228.0,1413.0"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132797/index/52290/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Identity, traveling","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132797#t=1413.0,1659.94812"},{"id":"https://ualberta.aviaryplatform.com/collections/1776/collection_resources/58625/file/132797/index/52290/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Fast states that she identifies as Canadian. 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