Interview with Sarah Kaufman

Interview with Sarah Kaufman

Sarah Kaufman is the current Managing Director and Curator of the Niagara Historical Society and Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum. Born in 1985, Sarah has significant knowledge of the earlier tennis history of Niagara-on-the-Lake centering around the Queen’s Royal Hotel and the International Tennis Tournament that the hotel hosted between 1885 and 1920. Through the Niagara-on-the-Lake Museum Sarah is also engaged in an oral history project that preserves the voices and history of Niagara-on-the-Lake. In this interview, Sarah describes these projects and the importance of tennis within the town's history.

Queen's Royal Hotel

19th Century Tourism

20th Century Tourism

The Great Depression

Tennis Tournaments

Gender Dynamics

Demographics

2020-09-04

video

NTOH-007

Williamson, Adam

Kaufman, Sarah

English

Permission from the SOHA is required for publication or reproduction.

This oral history interview was conducted digitally via Microsoft Teams. The video was edited in Adobe Premiere Pro, at which point an introduction sequence and question slides were added, and the interviewer's video and audio were removed.

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Hotel

People

History

Community

Royal