SIDE A 00:00:08 -- 00:01:15
Brief discussion about his family table and chairs; table and chairs.
SIDE A 00:01:15 -- 00:03:44
Discussion about attending Corcoran's Business College; room and board prices, bicycle, Corcoran's Business College.
SIDE A 00:03:44 -- 00:07:05
Discussion about his family farm being a Confederation Farm, with a tour of the farm; Confederation Farm, well, granary, pump house, thrashing, custom thrashing prices.
SIDE A 00:07:05 -- 00:09:37
Discussion about their windmill; windmill.
SIDE A 00:09:37 -- 00:11:24
Discussion about their barn that burned; fire, barn, paint, cedar shingles.
SIDE A 00:11:24 -- 00:12:15
Brief discussion about the Milton train station; Milton Station, train station.
SIDE A 00:12:15 -- 00:18:02
Discussion about the farm continues; turnip house, barn, hay, granary, grain, brooder house, store, wood house.
SIDE A 00:18:02 -- 00:19:11
Brief discussion about their horses, with mention of their garage; horses, work horses.
SIDE A 00:19:11 -- 00:21:22
Discussion about local houses, an apple orchard, and apples; apples, Alexander apples, apple orchard.
SIDE A 00:21:22 -- 00:22:18
Brief discussion about the history of the house; bathroom.
SIDE A 00:22:18 -- 00:23:41
Brief discussion about traveling to school and later business college; Allison MacKinnon, school, teacher, Corcoran's Business College, 1940s, roads.
SIDE A 00:23:41 -- 00:25:38
Brief discussion about taking the train and deep snow; booking stations, train stations, trains, deep snow, Watt's Cutting.
SIDE A 00:25:38 -- 00:27:02
Brief discussion about Christmas; presents, Christmas, Christmas tree, stockings, oranges, Robert, Russell, Wesley, Marjorie.
SIDE A 00:27:02 -- 00:29:44
Discussion about Wesbster's store, the post office, and his mother's homemade butter; Al Younker, Brad Webster, post office, trading eggs, butter, cream.
SIDE A 00:29:44 -- 00:33:46
Discussion about school, with mention of lighting the fire and deep snow; Sally Rodd, teacher, school stove, school, snow, snowshoes, George MacMillan.
SIDE A 00:33:46 -- 00:35:17
Brief discussion about the Newstead dance hall; dances, dance hall, Jack Rodd.
SIDE A 00:35:17 -- 00:40:18
Discussion about local mills; Gates, Fred Gates, flour mill, miller's toll, grain toll, gristmill, sawmill, Curtis, Roy Coles, Russell Coles, mills, mill prices.
SIDE A 00:40:18 -- 00:41:15
Brief discussion about local blacksmiths; Reg Jay, Winsloe, blacksmith, Lindsay Coles, Rich MacLean, horseshoeing.
SIDE A 00:41:15 -- 00:42:10
A brief story about Bobby Clow; Bobby Clow.
SIDE A 00:42:10 -- 00:42:56
Brief discussion about blacksmiths continues; sleighs, blacksmiths, horseshoeing.
SIDE A 00:42:56 -- 00:46:42
Discussion about sleighs, wagons, and traveling to Charlottetown; box sleighs, traveling, wagons, horse and wagon, Charlottetown, livery stable, Smith.
SIDE A 00:46:42 -- 00:47:49
Brief discussion about Market Square in Charlottetown; Market Square, Charlottetown, market, meat, bowling alley.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:49.
SIDE B 00:47:59 -- 00:48:55
Brief discussion about entertainment as a kid; entertainment, skating, coasting, ponds.
SIDE B 00:48:55 -- 00:51:04
Brief discussion about church and Sundays; Anglican, Sundays, church, harvest.
SIDE B 00:51:04 -- 00:52:30
Brief discussion about the Spanish Flu, radio, and coal; radio, coal.
SIDE B 00:52:30 -- 00:55:07
Discussion about mussel mud and manure; mussel mud.
SIDE B 00:55:07 -- 00:56:52
Discussion about how things have changed and how people are too busy now; changes, Clows.
SIDE B 00:56:52 -- 00:57:37
Brief discussion about the telephone; central telephone, Turtle MacNeil, Robert Hooper, telephone.
SIDE B 00:57:37 -- 00:59:40
Discussion about cream and horses; cream, horses, Jersey, cows, milk.
SIDE B 00:59:40 -- 01:06:14
Discussion about how reapers and binders worked, and how to cut grain and hay; reaper, binder, grain, stooking, hay, hay coils, horses.
SIDE B 01:06:14 -- 01:08:26
Discussion about working in the woods with horses and sawing firewood; hauling wood, sawing wood, saws, hoses, firewood, web saw.
SIDE B 01:08:26 -- 01:10:02
Discussion about turnips and farming; turnips, cattle feed, hoeing.
SIDE B 01:10:02 -- 01:10:54
Brief discussion about farms he saw on the ride from Charlottetown to his farm; Charlottetown, farms.
SIDE B 01:10:54 -- 01:14:33
Discussion about his first tractor and first car; tractors, Cockshutt tractor, 1967, cars, 1937, Dodge, car prices, 1952.
SIDE B 01:14:33 -- 01:15:34
Brief discussion about traveling off the Island; Ontario, Nova Scotia, traveling.
SIDE B 01:15:34 -- 01:16:57
Brief discussion about pack peddlers; Tom Michael, pack peddlers.
SIDE B 01:16:57 -- 01:19:20
Discussion about his mother and grandfather; Annie Monroe, Jack Monroe, lumber woods, Donald Nicholson, janitor, Summerside, gold rush, Yukon.
SIDE B 01:19:20 -- 01:21:30
Discussion about his father going out on the Harvest Excursion; Harvest Excursion.
SIDE B 01:21:30 -- 01:24:03
Discussion about the little store his grandparents ran in their house, with mention of the history of the Moores and the house; store, Matheson, Moore, Elm Avenue Cemetery.
SIDE B 01:24:03 -- 01:24:52
Brief discussion about the Shaws at Brackley Beach; Shaws, Brackley Beach.
SIDE B 01:24:52 -- 01:25:39
Brief discussion about Heartbreak Hill and Hall's Hill; Hall's Hill, Heartbreak Hill.
SIDE B 01:25:39 -- 01:26:15
Brief discussion about Winsloe Station and Milton Station; train stations, Winsloe Station, Milton Station.
SIDE B 01:26:15 -- 01:27:40
Brief discussion about growing potatoes, with mention of beater diggers; red potatoes, beater digger.
SIDE B 01:27:40 -- 01:29:32
Brief discussion about farm machinery while looking at photos; tractors, Cockshutt, farm machinery.
SIDE B 01:29:32 -- 01:30:20
Brief discussion about stationary engines, washing machines, and Halls thrashers; stationary engines, washing machines, Halls thrashers.
SIDE B 01:30:20 -- 01:32:17
Discussion about the Croken the veterinarian and John's past with tobacco; country veterinarian, Croken, tobacco, chewing tobacco, smoking, Hickey and Nicholson.
SIDE B 01:32:17 -- 01:33:11
Brief discussion about B. C. Webster, G. C. MacLean, and their stores; B. C. Webster, Gillespie, G. C. MacLean, stores, MacQuarrie.
SIDE B 01:33:11 -- 01:35:50
Discussion about his father working on the road, with mention of breaking the road in the winters; horse and sleigh, breaking the road, road work, road tax receipt.
Tape ends at 01:35:50.
