Sybil Susie Tutthill (nee Balding) was born on July 5, 1906 in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, England.
Sybil married Claude Arthur Eugene Tutthill (1905-1974) in England in 1926. She and Claude came to Canada in 1929 with their daughter Hazel, living first at Kisby, SK before moving to Manitoba in 1932. Their son Bernard was born in Saskatchewan. The Tutthill's worked on farms and farmed themselves in a number of locations before settling in Mossegiel for a time. They then moved to Buckingham District and then west of Elkhorn. When the farm they were renting was sold, Claude was asked to help at Elkhorn Residential School until it closed in 1949. In 1951, the couple was asked to move to Prince Albert, SK to assist at St. Alban's Indian Residential School. They retired to Prince Albert in 1971. Following Claude's death, Sybil returned to Elkhorn to be closer to family. Sybil Tutthill died on October 31, 1989 in Virden, MB. She is buried at Elkhorn Cemetery.
Custodial History
As part of the Westman Oral History Collection, this collection was accessioned by the McKee Archives in 1998. The original tapes from the Westman Oral History project were deposited in the Brandon Public Library. Copies of these originals were made by Margaret Pollex of the Brandon University Language Lab at the request of Eileen McFadden, University Archivist in the early 1990s. These copies compose the collection held in the McKee Archives.
Scope and Content
Item is an audiocassette tape containing an interview with Sybil Tutthill about her life in Canada. Interviewer is Rosalyn Sutley.
Notes
History/bio information from the records, the Elkhorn local history "Steel and Grass Roots" and Tutthill's obituary. Description by Christy Henry.
Audio Tracks
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