Interview with Katie Tanner

Partial Transcript: Um so I live in Halifax, Nova Scotia, I work at the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame and it's a free admission museum, we do a free education program...

Segment Synopsis: Katie tells us a little about herself including where she was born, where she grew up, and where she lives now.

Keywords: Halifax; Hall of Fame; Museum; Nova Scotia

Partial Transcript: Yeah so I manage the collection and the.. our communications work such as our annual program, e-newsletters, social media...

Segment Synopsis: Katie explains her role at the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame

Keywords: Free; Museum

Partial Transcript: I mean as a museum employee there's certainly many Canada Games artifacts in our collection, many Canada Games references in our research materials...

Segment Synopsis: Katie explains her relationship to the Canada Games as a museum employee, as well as her own personal recollections of the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Halifax, NS.

Keywords: 2011; Basketball; Canada Games Centre; Halifax; Infrastructure; Nova Scotia; Speed Skating

Subjects: Community Partnerships

Partial Transcript: I think I did just go to the speedskating ones, at the time I was in university and my one of my close friends at university who was studying here but from Toronto...

Segment Synopsis: Katie shares her memories of the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Halifax, including specific sports and concerts that had been organized.

Keywords: Community; Concert; Great Big Sea; Joel Plaskett; Nova Scotia; Speed skating

Subjects: Spectator's Perspective

Partial Transcript: We did a little display for the 50th anniversary that tried to cover the years that the Canada Games were held in Nova Scotia...

Segment Synopsis: Katie describes the Canada Games exhibit that was put on at the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame in 2017.

Keywords: Hat(s); Medal(s); Memorabilia; Pin(s); Promotion; Torch; Volunteers

Subjects: Collective Memory; Museum Exhibit(s); Preserving Canada Games Materials

Partial Transcript: There's two ways that people can engage with the collection. They can come in person, they can see a museum display and you know, have that, it's self-guided...

Segment Synopsis: Katie talks about how their artifacts are made available to the public, and the sorts of things that people like to see when they come to the museum.

Keywords: Apparel; Gear

Subjects: Preserving Canada Games Materials

Partial Transcript: We, for the 2011 Games, we were donated this kind of premade pin collection. So it was in a frame and every different pin that they had that year was in that frame...

Segment Synopsis: Katie describes some of the different pins they have in their collection.

Keywords: Hat(s); Nova Scotia; Pennants; Pin(s); Schooner

Subjects: Pin collecting

Partial Transcript: So Novamuse is specific to Nova Scotia. Various museums throughout the province upload their collections digitally online so someone can go to novamuse.ca and search by keyword for any type of artifact or a year or person...

Segment Synopsis: Katie explains what the digital collections in Novamuse are and how they work.

Keywords: Autograph; Collection; Digital Museum; Medal; Memorabilia; Photographs; Torch

Partial Transcript: Yeah they're mostly... like we kind of pretty much only take donations and we don't usually go out and purchase artifacts so they would come from members of the community, whether they're athletes are volunteers....

Segment Synopsis: Katie talks about some of the different items that community members have donated to the Nova Scotia Sport Hall of Fame collections over the years.

Keywords: 1969; Dartmouth; Program; Ticket; Torch

Subjects: Collective Memory

Partial Transcript: I don't know if there's anything that unusual for the Canada Games items, certainly some of the clothing from like the '70s is kind of funny um they wore like these heavy wool peacoats they're very not like athletic...

Segment Synopsis: Katie mentions some Canada Games items in their collection that she finds especially interesting.

Keywords: Gear; Hats; Jacket; Lighter

Subjects: Preserving Canada Games Materials

Partial Transcript: So all of our inductee stories, because we have limited display space, they're rotated, whether, depending on the display that we're doing or sport that we're focusing on...

Segment Synopsis: Katie tells some stories of a few different black athletes from Nova Scotia that competed at the Canada Games in their youth.

Keywords: Boxing; Chris Clark; Figure Skating; Ice Dance; Olympics; Ray Downey; Ricky Anderson; Robert McCall

Subjects: Black History

Partial Transcript: It's hard because I was looking today and I know that there's like so many female athletes with connections but because they ended up going on to do things like Olympics and World Championships it's hard to go back and find those Canada Games records...

Segment Synopsis: Katie talks about Nova Scotian swimmer Nancy Garapick and her connections to the Canada Games.

Keywords: Nancy Garapick; Olympics; Swimming

Subjects: Women & Gender Equity

Partial Transcript: So the 1987 Games were in Sydney, Cape Breton and they would have had a lot of facilities built for those Games as well, and we actually have a we have a builder category for inductees...

Segment Synopsis: Katie mentions both built infrastructure left over from the Canada Games within Nova Scotian communities as well as forms of collective memory that exist in the province today.

Keywords: Builders; Cape Breton; Halifax; Infrastructure; Oval; Sidney Crosby; Sydney

Subjects: Built Legacy; Collective Memory

Partial Transcript: I think it's a great way for athletes to meet athletes from other provinces and compare their own experiences with training and with competition in their local provinces...

Segment Synopsis: Katie explains the importance of the Canada Games for promoting camaraderie between athletes from across the country.

Keywords: Camaraderie

Subjects: Canadian Identity; Unity Through Sport

Partial Transcript: I think that's probably the best one as far as kind of creating that next generation or next wave of Canadians who will be interested in sports or even bringing their own sport experiences...

Segment Synopsis: Katie talks about the different cultures that influence some of the different sports in the Canada Games.

Keywords: Hockey; Immigrant; Multicultural

Subjects: Canadian Identity; Inclusivity in Sport; Unity Through Sport

Partial Transcript: Yeah I think our main role is certainly preserving history like we want to be that place that keeps a record of these events that chooses our collection not just on individuals but also on important events...

Segment Synopsis: Katie talks about the role of the Nova Scotia Hall of Fame in preserving materials and keeping records of individuals and important events in Nova Scotia's sport history.

Keywords: Canada Games Centre; Canadian Museum of Immigration; Canadian Sports Center Atlantic; Discovery Centre; Events; Presentations; Science

Subjects: Collective Memory; Community Partnerships; Preserving Canada Games Materials

Partial Transcript: Like I said I haven't had a huge experience with, as a spectator, just the one Games that were in Halifax I was able to see a little bit of.

Segment Synopsis: Katie explains how the Canada Games are often a stepping stone for Nova Scotian athletes who have gone on to compete at high levels.

Keywords: Competition; Formative Years; Sidney Crosby; Top Fifteen

Subjects: Career Impacts

Partial Transcript: That's a hard question because you always look back and think oh maybe I should have done something differently but I think there's so many connections with sports just to look outside the very obvious ways of preserving...

Segment Synopsis: Katie advises museum professionals to keep in mind aside from the obvious sport competition side, how sport also intersects with the community, with art, culture, politics, etc.

Keywords: Advice; Community; Media

Subjects: Preserving Canada Games Materials; Unity Through Sport

Partial Transcript: Again I guess the only other story I can think of that's kind of a funny little like Nova Scotia pride thing is prior to us hosting the Canada Games in 2011 Vancouver had hosted the 2010 Olympics and they had so much trouble with natural snow...

Segment Synopsis: Katie tells the story of the cartoon drawn by Nova Scotian cartoonist Bruce MacKinnon of The Chronicle Herald, poking fun at the lack of snow at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics compared to the large amounts of snow at the 2011 Canada Winter Games in Halifax.

Keywords: 2010 Vancouver Olympics; Bruce MacKinnon; Cartoons; Snow; The Chronicle Herald