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2013 Book Bringing Out the Untold Life, Recollections of Mildred Reid Grant Gray, An Oral History related to Claire E.Scheuren with Highlights of Gabarus History. Cape Breton. Mildred Gray is acknowledged as the last surviving government-employed Morse Code operator and one of the last surviving manual switchboard operators in the Canadian Maritime provinces. Between the 1940s through the 1970s, Mrs. Gray was a one-woman 911, information and referral service, spiritual advisor, and companion to people giving birth and people dying. Now we need multiple institutions to do what Mrs. Gray and the other telegraph and switchboard operators did. Currently, Mrs. Gray resides in her lifetime home of Gabarus Village on Cape Breton Island in Nova Scotia, Canada where she is a direct descendant of its 18th century European settlers. Hardcover. 243 pages.