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Interviewee: Clow, Roy
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2006-09-04
Date Digitized
2010-02-23
Abstract
This interview with Roy Clow begins with stories about Roy's service in the Royal Canadian Navy during World War II. He begins by telling about joining the navy and being given the duty of instructing new recruits due to his experience at sea. Roy then tells about his friend, Lester MacKeeman, and his experience as a Prisoner of War in Germany. Roy continues the interview by telling about his ranks and duties in the navy, his time in Halifax, rationing during the war, and the riots that broke out in Halifax on V.E. Day. Roy then goes on to tell about his friends and their involvement in the war effort and Roy's duty with the navy after the war. On side B of the tape, Roy begins by telling about building and selling fishing boats, and the house he built himself. Next he tells about family farms in Montague, and then goes on to tell stories about making moonshine and buying pigs with Dolphie White. Roy then talks about Georgetown, a home remedy for wet eczema concocted by Dr. Barnes, and finishes by beginning a story about piloting ships into Georgetown harbour.
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Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:02:53
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1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:08:18
Discussion about World War II and Roy's service in Halifax; fishing, Stanley, Jack, farming, war, WWII, Murray River, Fraser, recruiter, fishermen, RN, VR, Regular Navy, Volunteer Navy, Halifax, Charlottetown, training, Prince David, Prince Robert, Prince Henry, ships, armed raiders, instructor, Vernon Steel, Larry Lewellen, Gasperaux, drafted, Lester MacKeeman, destroyers, Ohio, Athabaskan, corvette, American destroyers, dockyard.

SIDE A 00:08:18 -- 00:11:30
Discussion about the Athabaskan sinking, and his friend Lester MacKeeman's time in a P.O.W. camp; German, Stalag, P.O.W., camp, war, Athabaskan, destroyer, hole, starvation, Lester MacKeeman.

SIDE A 00:11:30 -- 00:14:25
Discussion about Roy's service in for the navy continues; draft, RN, ship, leading seaman, able bodied, shore patrol, Halifax, trains, Sydney, Montreal, square rig, uniforms.

SIDE A 00:14:25 -- 00:21:37
Discussion about Roy borrowing a car, bootlegging liquor, and rationing during the war; gas tickets, rations, ration book, gas, Quebec, tires, car, liquor, Montreal, tot, navy, Bill Leggot, bootlegger, train, Nova Scotia, Jack.

SIDE A 00:21:37 -- 00:24:47
Discussion about the end of the war, and the riots in Halifax; shore patrol, liquor stores, riot, Hollis Street, Halifax, Agricola Street, looting, stealing, sailors.

SIDE A 00:24:27 -- 00:29:40
Discussion about Roy's friends and their involvement in WWII; Vernon Steel, Lester MacKeeman, Jack MacKeeman, George MacKeeman, Harry Lewellen, friends, P.O.W., Athabaskan, army, navy, ashes, Magnificent, aircraft carrier, The Maggie, Halifax, Freddy, Johnny, Islanders, Montague.

SIDE A 00:29:41 -- 00:31:25
Discussion about Roy staying in the navy until 1947, and lobster prices after the war; navy, WWII, discharge, Halifax, fishermen, fishing, lobster, lobster prices, 1947.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:25.
***Side A ends mid-sentence
SIDE B 00:31:32 -- 00:34:47
Discussion about Roy building thirteen boats for $300 each in the 1940s, one of which was built inside his house; boats, shipbuilding, Montague, fishermen, fishing, 1940s, Winky M., Garf Johnson, Lunenburg dorey, Murray Harbour North,
SIDE B 00:34:47 -- 00:41:19
Discussion about Roy building a house for $350, installing windows, and indoor plumbing; windows, window panes, Clow's store, 1947, 1948, house, building, well, pump, Doug Nicholson, plumbing, Bob Maston, Joe Gillis, plaster.

SIDE B 00:41:19 -- 00:46:06
Discussion about family farms in Montague, and a story about a pet pig named "Rover"; Jack, farming, cows, pigs, sheep, Dolphie White, Murray Harbour North, butcher, Newfoundlander, Rover, pet, pork, butcher.

SIDE B 00:46:06 -- 00:51:25
Discussion about Roy making moonshine with Dolphie White, a story about a dead man with a fiddle, and Sam Gillis' moonshine; moonshine, molasses, sugar, yeast, barrel, Bill Leblanc, bootlegger, rum, fiddle, casket, dead, Sam Gillis, teddy, Murray River, Lester Johnson, Marvin Johnson.

SIDE B 00:51:25 -- 00:56:18
Discussion about Seymour Knight's drugstore, Dr. Barnes, and a home remedy for Roy's eczema as a baby; Dr. Barnes, Seymour Knight, drugstore, Lower Montague, Georgetown, home remedy, wet eczema, black, fir trees.

SIDE B 00:56:18 -- 00:58:29
Discussion about Georgetown, P.E.I.; Gordon Ross, blacksmith, Georgetown, forge, horseshoes, Batchilder chairs, Parker's foundry.

SIDE B 00:58:29 -- 01:02:51
Discussion about Roy piloting ships into harbours, specifically Georgetown; wharfinger, Georgetown, Casey Irving, tanker, Lloyd Fraser
Tape ends at 01:02:53.
***Tape ends mid-sentence.