Catalogue
Twelve of the largest are shown here with their full descriptions. The remaining fifty are searchable in the reading-room catalogue, which members reach from their account. Everything listed has been transferred, described at item level, and rights-reviewed.
Showing 12 of 12 listed collections
Longshore workers, tug crews and shipyard tradespeople in Halifax and Saint John, recorded with two waterfront local unions. Strong on winch work, night shifts, and the shift to containers.
Ground fishery households in Nova Scotia and Newfoundland recorded between 1998 and 2007. Forty-one interviews are closed until 2031 at the narrators' request.
Three generations of steelmaking and coal households, recorded largely by two high-school history classes under supervision. Includes 22 interviews in Gaelic.
Volunteer announcers, transmitter technicians and station boards from six licensed community stations between Chester and Shelburne, 1972 to the digital changeover.
An open, growing collection recorded with settlement agencies in all four provinces since 2016, in eleven languages. Narrators choose their own access level at the time of recording.
Cooks, treasurers and hall committees on the mutual-aid economy of parish suppers, funeral teas and fundraising bake tables between 1960 and 1995.
Inshore fishers, ferry crews and farmers describing named storms, ice years and the loss of local forecasting. Paired with 1,400 pages of scanned personal weather diaries.
Crossings to and from Prince Edward Island and the Bay of Fundy islands, recorded with retired crew, ticket agents and regular commuters after the fixed link opened.
Sawmill and pulp workers, river drivers and their families in northeastern New Brunswick. Thirty-six interviews are in French; all have English summaries.
Pattern names, fabric trade routes and the small finances that kept the circles going, recorded in kitchens and church halls across Kings and Annapolis counties.
Keepers and keepers' children from fourteen stations, recorded before and after de-staffing. Includes ambient recordings of six now-silent fog signals.
Compositors, linotype operators and reporters from four regional dailies through the move to offset and then to screens. Twelve interviews restricted pending third-party review.
No collection matches that. Try a place name, a decade, or a trade — or write to info@stento.info and an archivist will check the unlisted fifty for you.
Access
We do not decide who may be heard. The person who spoke does, at the time of recording, on a form they keep a copy of. Levels are reviewed every five years and can be changed by the narrator or their designated family contact at any time.
Listen in the reading room without an appointment, or request an access copy by email. Quotation is permitted with attribution to the catalogue number.
Listening is permitted; copying and publication are not, or not until a stated date. The catalogue record still appears in full so researchers know the material exists.
Sealed until a date the narrator set. Only the collection-level record is public. We hold these under the same conditions as everything else and do nothing with them.
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