SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:01:57
Discussion about salmon fishing; salmon nets, salmon fishing, Arthur Herb Arbuckle, 1930s, salmon prices.
SIDE A 00:01:57 -- 00:05:51
Discussion about lobster fishing and lobster prices; lobster prices, lobster fishing, lobster cannery, John Doyle, cannery, Fraser engine, lobster traps, lobsters.
SIDE A 00:05:51 -- 00:10:10
Discussion about fishing regulations and trap limits; Ted Turner, Lismore, 1930s, Charlie Mason, Henry Mason, Dick Murray, Sandy Murdock, Roddy MacDonald, Theodore Burns, Dan A. MacDonald, hired man, Stanley Mason, Cameron Murray, Eric Arbuckle.
SIDE A 00:10:10 -- 00:11:20
Discussion about working in the winters after fishing and John Doyle; John Doyle, lumber mill, cannery.
SIDE A 00:11:20 -- 00:13:54
Discussion about lobster canneries; Murdock Shore, Wilson, Pugwash, Elliot, Camp Gettie, Burgham and Morrow, Big Island, Lismore, Camp Bosco.
SIDE A 00:13:55 -- 00:15:22
Discussion about family history; Angus MacEachern, 1919, Francis Arbuckle.
SIDE A 00:15:22 -- 00:19:04
Discussion about Maude working at Camp Gettie; Camp Gettie, 1954, Jim Cameron.
***Tape stops and interview changes topics abruptly.
SIDE A 00:19:04 -- 00:21:10
Discussion about a big storm on June 18th of 1973; Henry Mason, storm, 1973, fishing.
SIDE A 00:21:10 -- 00:22:16
Discussion about the phantom ship; phantom ship.
SIDE A 00:22:16 -- 00:29:34
Discussion about Tiny Mason and rum running; Amy Mason, Tiny Mason, nurse, rum, New Glasgow, rum running, forest fire, Davish, bootlegging, Thurston Cook, Ed Mason, Ted Turner, mother ship, Fen Thompson, Flipperfoot, Fig, Angus The Bank MacGillivray.
SIDE A 00:29:34 -- 00:31:01
Brief discussion about characters in the area; Stormy Sandy, Charlie Sandy, Doug Cameron.
SIDE A 00:31:04 -- 00:33:56
Discussion about salmon fishing and nets; gensey, salmon fishing, fishing nets, salmon farms.
SIDE A 00:33:56 -- 00:36:02
Discussion about mackerel, herring, and hake fishing; lobster bait, New Glasgow, groceries, mackerel, herring, hake.
SIDE A 00:36:02 -- 00:38:57
Discussion about PEI schooners in Pictou county and traveling vegetable sales; potatoes, 1930s, schooners, vegetables, Stormy Sandy, Buff MacGillivray, Fen Thompson.
SIDE A 00:38:58 -- 00:40:02
Brief discussion about the roads before they were paved; roads, paved roads, driving, Raymond Patton.
SIDE A 00:40:02 -- 00:45:00
Discussion about courting and dances; house dances, Murdock, Mason, Harry Mosher, Gus Chapman, Norbie Mason, musicians, fiddle.
SIDE A 00:45:00 -- 00:46:12
Discussion about his first radio; Vincent MacDonald, records, radio, boxing.
SIDE A 00:46:12 -- 00:47:44
Discussion about the first car he drove; cars, Herb Arbuckle, George MacDonald, Model T Ford.
Side A ends at 00:47:44.
SIDE B 00:47:50 -- 00:48:39
Discussion about the first car continues; cars.
SIDE B 00:48:39 -- 00:49:15
Brief discussion about the Halifax Explosion; 1908, 1919, Halifax Explosion.
SIDE B 00:49:16 -- 00:55:19
Discussion about traveling thrashing mills and Dutch families in the area; thrashing mill, Morristown, Dutch, featherbed.
SIDE B 00:55:19 -- 00:59:48
Discussion about school; A. J. MacGillivray, teacher, Lismore, Annie MacKinnon, Ethel MacKinnon, students, school, Father Rod MacPherson.
SIDE B 00:59:48 -- 01:02:28
Discussion about stores and people in Lismore; Judge MacIntosh, Kerwin, John C., post office, Lismore, MacManus, Dr. A. M. MacDonald.
SIDE B 01:02:28 -- 01:03:41
Discussion about Brown's Mountain and Eigg Mountain; Eigg Mountain, Brown's Mountain, school, saw mill, MacDonald, Donald John C.
SIDE B 01:03:41 -- 01:08:18
Discussion about working in a mill as a child; Angus MacDougall, John MacPherson, mill, accident, Dr. Earl Patterson.
SIDE B 01:08:18 -- 01:10:33
Discussion about doctors, school taxes, and the depression; Dr. Ross, teachers, school, school taxes, The Depression, eggs.
SIDE B 01:10:35 -- 01:11:30
Brief discussion about D. D. MacDonald's store; D. D. MacDonald's, J. W. MacDonald, general store.
SIDE B 01:11:30 -- 01:13:30
Discussion about lobster traps then and now; Danny MacDonald, twine, lobster traps.
SIDE B 01:13:33 -- 01:15:48
Discussion about shipbuilding, the phantom ship, and ghost stories; shipbuilding, Edison Shore, Geordie Mason, phantom ship, ghosts, sheep, Flo Turner.
SIDE B 01:15:48 -- 01:19:49
Discussion about the old days and working at the lumber yard; railroad tie, lumber, train, Avondale, James River, pulp, prices, wages, rum.
SIDE B 01:19:50 -- 01:21:42
Discussion about their parents and their childhood; childhood, family.
SIDE B 01:21:42 -- 01:23:49
Discussion about Castle Harris and Bob Porter's Funeral Home; government meetings, Flo Turner, Bob Porter, funeral home, Castle Harris.
SIDE B 01:23:49 -- 01:26:47
Discussion about caskets and graveyards; John MacPherson, Ponds, Catholics, Protestants, Piedmont, caskets, graveyards.
***Dead air from 01:26:47 -- 01:26:56.
SIDE B 01:26:56 -- 01:27:47
Discussion about Catholics and Protestants; MLA, Protestant, Catholics.
***Dead air from 01:27:47 -- 01:35:33.
Tape ends at 01:35:33.
