***Disclaimer - This interview contains some profanity and language some may find inappropriate.
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:04:16
Discussion about fishing in Vernon River and selling oysters for $2 per barrel in Charlottetown and $1.75 in Vernon River; East River, West River, oysters, molasses, rum, Vernon Bridge, MacDonald, barrel, fishing.
SIDE A 00:04:17 -- 00:06:11
Discussion about plugging the stove pipe on the boat with a turnip; Stanley Baker, Warren, Will, stove, boat, George Miller, smoke.
SIDE A 00:06:12 -- 00:11:04
Discussion about living on the oyster boat for two months until the end of November; oyster, sleep, boat, stove, tides, fishing, Murray Harbour.
SIDE A 00:11:05 -- 00:13:18
Discussion about shoveling out a train that was stuck in the snow for a week in Montague; Montague, train, snow, Jack Clair, shovel, engine, Raymond d'Or.
SIDE A 00:13:19 -- 00:14:22
Discussion of Herring Island, later called Gordon's Island, and the people who lived on it; Herring Island, Gordon's Island, horses, swim, farm.
SIDE A 00:14:23 -- 00:16:31
Discussion about the Enterprise, Electra, and Hochelegra coming into Clow's wharf from Pictou; Enterprise, Electra, Pictou, Clow's Wharf, MacNeil, Hochelegra, Charlottetown, cattle, potatoes, Newfoundland.
SIDE A 00:16:32 -- 00:17:26
Discussion about people in the area speaking Gaelic, specifically Chester Martin; sing, socials, Gaelic, Chester Martin, church, Caledonia.
SIDE A 00:17:27 -- 00:19:21
Discussion about going to church twice on Sundays in his brother's new $600 Model-T Ford; Sunday, church, work, horse, wagon, car, Stanley, Model-T, Ford, 1926, Thompson.
SIDE A 00:19:22 -- 00:24:31
Discussion about working as a fisheries officer for four years in the late 1960s with Karlsen and Company sealing ships off the coast of Newfoundland with 47 men; seals, fishing, 1960s, Newfoundland, Goose Bay, Karlsen and Company, fisheries, Labrador, captains, Norway, Norwegian, sealers, Halifax, seal plant.
SIDE A 00:24:32 -- 00:31:37
Discussion about Newfoundland sealers eating and cooking the seals they hunted, uses for seal oil, Newfoundland dialect, and the salary for sealing; Leonard, beaters, Newfoundland, seals, sealers, eating, cooking, hearts, raw, cook, flippers, carcasses, seal meat, tongues, seal oil, rum, money, fisheries inspector.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:37.
SIDE B 00:31:43 -- 00:41:10
Discussion about the grist mill and different types of flour, Roy's mother baking, and Dan MacRae and his flour; wheat, canvas, bags, flour, bran, middlings, biscuits, bread, Dan MacRae, mare, homemade, Ben Clow's, Robin Hood.
***SIDE B 00:39:35 - Tape appears to have stopped.
SIDE B 00:41:11 -- 00:41:28
Discussion about using flour bags to make and patch clothing, his mother sewing and knitting; clothing, flour, flour bags, overalls, patches.
SIDE B 00:41:29 -- 00:45:00
Discussion about Roy's family, his brother's death from typhoid fever, and asking to borrow $75 from his uncle Dave to get an engine for his boat; Stanley, Jack, Ned, Mary, Lucy, Evelyn, typhoid fever, Annie Sensabough, Dave, Model-A, Ford, car, engine, boat, Archie Jameson.
SIDE B 00:45:01 -- 00:47:58
Discussion about trying to raise foxes, trading them to Randall MacDonald for a mare, and having to shoot the horse soon after; mare, foxes, trade, Randall MacDonald, horse, trotting, trotter.
SIDE B 00:47:59 -- 00:49:20
Return to discussion about buying a car engine for his boat and racing the boat in Pictou at age 15; car, engine, boat, George Miller, race, Pictou.
SIDE B 00:49:21 -- 00:53:15
Discussion about schooners going over to Pictou, going to the circus there, and Ed and Ivan buying wine for $2 a gallon at the liquor store and ending up in jail for the night; Pictou, circus, schooners, diving, George Miller, liquor store, wine, police, Ed, Ivan, jail, races.
SIDE B 00:53:16 -- 00:58:42
Discussion about the circus in Pictou, kicking a bear, and the Chapmans taking a sick elephant to Newfoundland; monkeys, bear, circus, Pictou, George, Milton Chapman, George Chapman, sick, Newfoundland, boat, schooner, mast, storm, zebra.
SIDE B 00:58:43 -- 01:01:18
Discussion about sea captains, and an old wooden minesweeper from the navy burning off the West coast; George Dunn, Horace Hyde, Hot Hyde, Rio, schooner, fishermen, Pictou, Halifax, Royal White, minesweeper, navy, Newfoundland, burning.
SIDE B 1:01:19 -- 01:03:33
Discussion about selling turnip at Clow's wharf for $0.15 per bag, and shipping vegetables to Newfoundland; Murray Harbour, 1930s, Clow's wharf, bulk, turnips, bags, Milton, cart, Newfoundland, potatoes, Smallwood, cattle.
Tape ends at 01:03:33.
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