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The interview documents Woodcock’s blinding at Dieppe in 1942 and his post-war Canadian National Institute for the Blind (CNIB) career. Topics include: rehabilitation at St Dunstan’s and CNIB’s Baker Hall; establishing coast-to-coast CNIB field offices; arranging vocational training and employment for war-blinded veterans; drafting pension-reform briefs that added spousal benefits and continuing allowances; leadership in the Sir Arthur Pearson Association; and shifting rehabilitation from charity to rights-based advocacy.

The interview broadly documents Robert “Bob” Waterhouse’s life and experiences after a spinal cord injury. Topics include: Depression-era childhood and paid work in small-town Ingersoll, Ontario; the June 1939 diving accident and early acute care with skull-traction tongs, immobilisation, pressure-sore treatment, and experimental orthopaedic surgery at Toronto General Hospital; family-led home nursing, bladder and bowel routines, and the role of student nurses during the Second World War; intensive physiotherapy, brace-walking and vocational retraining at Christie Street Hospital and Lyndhurst Lodge (1946-48); post-war community support from Kiwanis and the Canadian Paraplegic Association; adult return to secondary school and completion of a B.Comm. at Queen’s University, highlighting campus accessibility barriers, ad-hoc ramps, and peer assistance; acquisition of bespoke hand-control automobiles and the emergence of independent driving; employment as a YMCA office manager and later as a national employment counsellor for newly injured Canadians; marriage, home adaptations, and shared recreational life (fishing, cottage ownership); evolving public and professional attitudes toward disability, from custodial care to rights-based inclusion; and Waterhouse’s contributions to Ontario Building Code accessibility clauses and broader advocacy for equal education and employment.