SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:49
Robbie talks about a cheese factory, the post office, his sister Mabel's house, and what it was like growing up in such a crowded house; cheese, post, mail, big families, cheese factories.
SIDE A 00:02:49 -- 00:04:37
Buying a home with his brother in 1929 and where he was born; 1929, birth, midwives, land.
SIDE A 00:04:37 -- 00:07:10
The nearest blacksmith, how Robbie's father was only a fisherman and the children were the farmers, and Robbie shows Dutch a few more places near his childhood home; blacksmiths, fishermen, farmers.
SIDE A 00:07:10 -- 00:07:46
Robbie's old school; school, books, teachers.
SIDE A 00:07:46 -- 00:09:28
Photographs of Mossy's peddling wagon and how they peddled; Mossy, peddlers, peddling.
SIDE A 00:09:28 -- 00:11:26
Mail service down East and pack peddlers; mail, post office, Souris, pack peddlers.
SIDE A 00:11:26 -- 00:13:56
How the Harris familly came to PEI, a cancer cure, and the 1883 August Gale that drove in 65 different ships; cancer, home remedies, Harris, 1883, gales, August Gale, storms.
SIDE A 00:13:56 -- 00:14:08
Briefly goes to Robbie speaking in a car about a man who lost an arm and a leg; amputee, accidents.
SIDE A 00:14:08 -- 00:20:23
Clive, one of Robbie's friends, tells a story about Henry MacDonald the minister and life at sea; storms, weather, Christianity, minister, Henry MacDonald, Clive Bruce.
SIDE A 00:20:23 -- 00:23:13
Discussion about a map of all the shipwrecks on the Island and the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion, shipwrecks.
SIDE A 00:23:13 -- 00:27:18
Clive's childhood, his father, starting to fish lobster in 1933, and losbter prices; lobster prices, lobster, fishing, 1933, fishermen.
SIDE A 00:27:18 -- 00:29:30
Clive talks about mackerel fishing; mackerel, fishing, fishing nets.
SIDE A 00:29:30 -- 00:31:44
Clive talks about working at a fish plant in Halifax in 1929; 1929, Halifax, fish plant.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:44.
SIDE B 00:31:51 -- 00:35:54
A story of salting fish continues, then he talks about how he went to navigation school, and joining up with a steam ship for the next five years; school, navigation school, salt fish, steam ships.
SIDE B 00:35:54 -- 00:38:49
Clive's family, Christmas, his first job, planting potatoes and the other jobs in his youth; farming, Christmas, potato farming.
SIDE B 00:38:49 -- 00:41:14
Clive talks about capturing a silver fox and sending it to the Hudson's Bay Company, saving for a fishing boat, and cork trees; cork, foxes, fox pelts, fox prices, money, silver foxes, HBC, Hudson's Bay Company.
SIDE B 00:41:14 -- 00:43:47
Prices for hake and cod, hard times, and fishing gear; fishing, fishing gear, hake prices, cod prices, fish prices.
SIDE B 00:43:47 -- 00:43:50
Tape cuts out for a moment.
SIDE B 00:43:50 -- 00:48:17
Clive talks about a story he wrote for the paper about his early life selling fish and a conversation he had while working in an office in Halifax one day that lead to some business dealings; fish, selling, business, fishing, unions.
SIDE B 00:48:17 -- 00:51:12
Starting up the first fisherman's union on PEI, buying gear, and other union duties; unions, fishing, shipping, fishermen, fishing gear, fisherman's union.
SIDE B 00:51:12 -- 00:52:34
The fisherman's factory in the Souris area; factories, Souris, fishermen, fish, fishing.
SIDE B 00:52:34 -- 00:56:19
Dog fish and what kinds of fish were exotic during their day, haddock, and some of the biggest cod and hake Clive ever saw; dog fish, fishing, fish, fish sizes, cod, hake, fish prices.
SIDE B 00:56:19 -- 01:01:08
Clive talks about splitting fish and Robbie talks about how long a fisherman's day was; splitting fish, fishing.
SIDE B 01:01:08 -- 01:03:35
Clive talks about where the salt came from and the Malagash mine. salt, fish, fishing, salt mines, Malagash.
Tape ends at 01:03:35.
