***SIDE B is an interview with Roy Clow.
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:01:45
Discussion about egg circles, fish and meat peddlers, and pack peddlers; Tommy Micheal, pack peddlers, peddlers, fish peddlers, meat peddlers, egg circles.
SIDE A 00:01:45 -- 00:03:55
Fred briefly talks about the Halifax Explosion and WWI, the Spanish Flu after the war, and being the only one in the family to not get sick; Halifax Explosion, WWI, Spanish Flu.
SIDE A 00:03:55 -- 00:05:40
Discussion about seeing the Hindenburg; Hindenburg.
SIDE A 00:05:40 -- 00:06:50
Discussion about horses and cars; horses, cars.
SIDE A 00:06:50 -- 00:07:49
Discussion about The Great Depression and how it affected the farm; farming, potato prices, Great Depression, 1930s.
SIDE A 00:07:49 --00:08:34
Discussion about local stores in Milton run by John Moore; John Moore, Milton, stores.
SIDE A 00:08:34 -- 00:10:12
Discussion about windmills on John Moore's and Ray Younker's farms and the local blacksmith; horseshoeing, horseshoe prices, blacksmiths, windmills, John Moore, Ray Younker.
SIDE A 00:10:12 -- 00:11:42
Discussion about music in the Coles home and his father's fiddling; fiddlers, music, musicians, fiddles.
SIDE A 00:11:42 -- 00:13:04
A story about the Spanish Flu and warding it off with tobacco; chewing tobacco, tobacco, Spanish Flu.
SIDE A 00:13:04 -- 00:14:39
Discussion about about the Market Square; Market Square.
SIDE A 00:14:39 -- 00:15:10
Discussion about killing pigs and using the fat from them to make soap; homemade soap, soap, killing pigs, fat.
SIDE A 00:15:10 -- 00:18:39
Discussion about planting by the moon and the one time he used mussel mud on his field; mussel mud, fertilizer, planting by the moon, phases of the moon.
SIDE A 00:18:39 -- 00:19:28
Discussion about Native Canadians in the area; baskets, First Nations People, Native Canadians.
SIDE A 00:19:28 -- 00:21:15
Discussion about how to get to his farm, and why they knew the Moores so well; Moore.
SIDE A 00:21:15 -- 00:22:23
Discussion about the Springvale School and taverns; Springvale, Springvale School, school, Milton, Brookfield, taverns.
SIDE A 00:22:23 -- 00:23:45
Discussion about home remedies, not eating lobster as a child, and eating fresh cod fish that came from the fish peddler "Little Henry"; Little Henry, home remedies, lobster, cod fish, fish, fish peddlers.
SIDE A 00:23:45 -- 00:25:34
Discussion about radio and his mother's cooking; biscuits, baking, cooking, radio.
SIDE A 00:25:34 -- 00:26:15
Discussion about cod liver oil; cod liver oil.
SIDE A 00:26:15 -- 00:27:00
Discussion about a graveyard in Portage that washed away because it was too close to the shore; erosion, Portage, graveyards.
SIDE A 00:27:00 -- 00:28:30
Discussion about how the Coles family was burial at the Anglican church but they switched to the Church of Scotland when his father married his mother; Highfeild, church, churches, Anglican, Church of Scotland, religion.
SIDE A 00:28:30 -- 00:29:45
Discussion about the biggest changes from his youth and the Jenkins' airport; airports, airfields, Jenkins, cars, airplanes.
SIDE A 00:29:45 -- 00:30:40
Discussion about ice travel on North River; North River, ice travel.
SIDE A 00:30:40 -- 00:31:37
Discussion about courting; dating, courting.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:37.
SIDE B 00:31:43 -- 00:45:05
Roy tells a story of he and George Miller as children in boats; boats, George Miller, ships, money.
SIDE B 00:45:05 -- 00:51:13
Roy talks about another large schooner that came in to pick up cattle to take to Newfoundland and how a bull escaped and jumped in the water; bulls, schooners, cattle.
SIDE B 00:51:13 -- 01:03:28
Discussion about how large schooners only went to Charlottetown, a little diesel powered ship that came to Montague 4-5 times a year to pick up the last load of potatoes and turnips of the year, and how Merle May had some of the best rum hidden in his boat; Merle May, hand brand rum, rum, schooners, ships, shipping.
Tape ends at 01:03:28.
