SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:01:29
Discussion about his birth; Waterside, 1902, hospital, mid-wife, doctor, Dr. Bears.
SIDE A 00:01:29 -- 00:03:23
Discussion about school; George Bears, Kate Coady, Bertha McInnis, wood-stove, school.
SIDE A 00:03:23 -- 00:12:10
Discussion about working on the farm, ploughing with horses, gas engines, and thrashing; gang plow, thrashing mill, horsepower, drum and shaker, sawing wood, saws, horses, grain.
SIDE A 00:12:10 -- 00:13:40
Discussion about horses; driving horse, horses, blood horse, horse races, Vernon Bridge.
SIDE A 00:13:40 -- 00:15:19
Discussion about a gristmill in Vernon River; train, Vernon River, gristmill, Murray Harbour, grain, accident, Riley Ross.
SIDE A 00:15:19 -- 00:16:13
Discussion about blacksmiths; Elliotvale, Gill's, blacksmiths.
SIDE A 00:16:13 -- 00:19:44
Discussion about tractors and horses; 1956, horses, horse prices, fox feed, trading.
SIDE A 00:19:44 -- 00:22:05
Discussion about tractor and horse poems; poetry, tractors, horses.
SIDE A 00:22:05 -- 00:24:01
Discussion about bushing the ice; Belfast, ice, bushing ice.
SIDE A 00:24:01 -- 00:26:51
Discussion about going to town in winter; Tea Hill, horse and sleigh, horse and wagon, pork, winter.
SIDE A 00:26:51 -- 00:28:18
Discussion about falling through the ice; Pownall, drowning, ice, horse.
SIDE A 00:28:19 -- 00:31:48
Discussion about trading eggs for groceries, schooners, and general stores; bartering, trading eggs, groceries, schooners, general stores, Vernon Bridge, potatoes, prices, Forbes', Lawson Jenkins.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:48.
SIDE B 00:31:53 -- 00:35:08
Discussion about local general stores; Jim MacEachern, Ings, general stores, Captain Fred Nelson, tea, sugar, Cherry Valley, groceries, candy.
SIDE B 00:35:08 -- 00:38:18
Discussion about cattle and butchers; Holstein, cattle, Jersey, calves, beef, market, herding cattle.
SIDE B 00:38:18 -- 00:41:17
Discussion about family and farming; Irving, J. P. Irving, farming, shipbuilding, Lord Selkirk, Scotland, bears, foxes.
SIDE B 00:41:17 -- 00:43:04
Discussion about mussel mud and trains; Pownal Bay, Vernon Bridge, Charlottetown, train fare, 1920s, mussel mud, trains,
SIDE B 00:43:04 -- 00:44:44
Discussion about WWI and the Halifax Explosion; WWI, Fred MacRae, 1917, Halifax Explosion.
SIDE B 00:44:47 -- 00:47:03
Discussion about Five Mile House and Ten Mile House; liquor, Isaac Brown, beer, Ten Mile House, Five Mile House, Alexandra.
SIDE B 00:47:03 -- 00:49:16
Discussion about the Harland train; trains, Harland, China Point, freight.
SIDE B 00:49:16 -- 00:51:49
Discussion about picnics and courting; Belfast, MacDonald, picnic, courting.
SIDE B 00:51:49 -- 00:53:52
Discussion about his first truck, first radio, and first time with electricity; 1950, Fargo, truck prices, trucks, electricity, radio, 1940.
SIDE B 00:53:52 -- 00:55:59
Discussion about funerals; undertakers, Acorn, Lawson Jenkins, Jenkins Funeral Home, Irish, wakes.
SIDE B 00:55:59 -- 01:00:07
Discussion about the first car he saw, the Hillsborough swing bridge, and traveling to Halifax; traveling, Halifax, Hillsborough swing bridge, Andrew McInnis, Earnscliffe, horses, Atlantic Winter Fair, Jack Cunningham.
SIDE B 01:00:13 -- 01:03:44
Discussion about changes in his lifetime; farming, tractors, horses.
Tape ends at 01:03:44.
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