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Contributors
Interviewee: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2004-01-03
Date Digitized
2010-06-03
Abstract
This interview is with Albert Murnaghan of Stratford and Fort Augustus, P.E.I. In this interview Albert talks about growing up in Charlottetown, school, Market Square, coal, snowstorms, rum running, businesses in Charlottetown, murder, and the Harland.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:35:51
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:02:19
Discussion about his birth in Fort Augustus and his siblings; birth, 1913, doctors, Dr. Welsh, Dr. Toombs, big families.

SIDE A 00:02:19 -- 00:03:35
Discussion about moving to Charlottetown in 1920; 1920, Charlottetown, Spring Park, school, St. Joseph's Convent, Queen Square School.

SIDE A 00:03:35 -- 00:04:52
Discussion about Hickey and Nicholson's chewing tobacco, with a story about getting sick trying some; Hickey and Nicholson, licorice, chewing tobacco.

SIDE A 00:04:52 -- 00:06:23
Discussion about Queen Square School, with mention of priests, rival schools, and sports; priests, Queen Square School, hockey, rival schools.

SIDE A 00:06:23 -- 00:07:38
Discussion about Market Square and hanging around at Jail Square; Market Square, Jail Square, 1911, jail, public hanging, jiggers, horses.

SIDE A 00:07:38 -- 00:11:26
Discussion about working at Gillis's coal yard, with mention of horses and shipping the coal; W. D. Gillis, coal, coal yards, Weeks, English coal, horses, shipping coal, schooners.

SIDE A 00:11:26 -- 00:14:13
Discussion about the Harland, with mention of wharves and its cargo; Cranberry Wharf, Harland, Appletree Wharf, Leblanc, cargo, bulls, wharves, exhibition.

SIDE A 00:14:13 -- 00:15:28
A story about a bull on a bridge; bull, bridge, Walter O'Brien.

SIDE A 00:15:28 -- 00:17:14
Discussion about the end of WWI, the Spanish Flu, and the Halifax Explosion; WWI, Spanish Flu, Halifax Explosion.

SIDE A 00:17:14 -- 00:19:06
Discussion about snowstorms, with mention of animals in the city; snowstorms, snow, 1923, snowplows.

SIDE A 00:19:06 -- 00:20:41
Discussion about Pauley's Mill and Duchman's Mill; Pauley's Mill, Duchman's Mill.

SIDE A 00:20:41 -- 00:21:26
Discussion about manure it the city; manure, Percy Smallwood.

SIDE A 00:21:26 -- 00:22:45
Discussion about livery stables; livery stables, Large's livery stable, Walker's livery stable.

SIDE A 00:22:45 -- 00:28:37
Discussion about coal; coal, Springhill coal, Sydney coal, coal prices, slack coal, fine coal, Mount Edward Road.

SIDE A 00:28:37 -- 00:29:41
Discussion about Archie Birtwhistle; Archie Birtwhistle, Chief of Police, police.

SIDE A 00:29:41 -- 00:31:33
Discussion about ice, with mention of the iceman and ice houses; ice, ice pond, Murphy's ice house, ice houses, Shelfoon.

SIDE A 00:31:33 -- 00:32:05
Discussion about the railway station; Jimmy Power, Shelfoon, taxis, railway station.

SIDE A 00:32:05 -- 00:33:03
Discussion about hotels; Queen Hotel, Victoria Hotel, hotels, fire, rum running.

SIDE A 00:33:03 -- 00:36:20
Discussion about bootleggers, and a story about liquor scripts; Frank Steele, liquor scripts, Joey MacDonald, bootlegger's, Plum MacDonald, liquor store, gentleman's club, Duncan Livingstone.

SIDE A 00:36:20 -- 00:40:06
Discussion about stores and businesses in downtown Charlottetown; Hughe's Drugstore, White's, Stewart's, barbershops, Chinese laundry, New England Cafe, Carter's, Dillon and Spillet, businesses, Charlottetown, restaurants, fish and chips, J. R. Reid, 1940s.

SIDE A 00:40:06 -- 00:40:54
A story about stolen coal; coal, Hell Street, theft.

SIDE A 00:40:54 -- 00:43:21
Discussion about people from the West end and the East end of Charlottetown, with mention of baseball; baseball, Charlottetown, West End Anchors, North End Rovers, East End Stars, Lefty MacWade.

SIDE A 00:43:21 -- 00:44:44
Discussion about the old arena and local rinks; rinks, arenas.

SIDE A 00:44:44 -- 00:47:51
A story about swimming off the wharves, with mention of the old railway bridge; 1905, railway bridge, swimming, wharves, Roy Murnaghan.

SIDE A ends at 00:47:51.
SIDE B 00:48:00 -- 00:49:25
Discussion about businesses in downtown Charlottetown, with mention of a candy factory and Whitlock's Tire; candy factory, Whitlock's Tire, Charlottetown, Edgar Whitlock.

SIDE B 00:49:25 -- 00:51:24
Discussion about blacksmiths and wheelwrights; Ford, Doug Gass, Proude and Moore, Gallant, blacksmiths, Boomer Gallant, wheelwrights.

SIDE B 00:51:24 -- 00:58:41
Discussion about a murder downtown, with mention of corner stores and the last execution on the Island; Earl Lund, Fred Phillips, murder, Peter Trainor, George Gregory, Mary Morrisey, Lund and Phillips, Gormley, hanging, 1941, execution.

SIDE B 00:58:41 -- 01:01:02
Discussion about Black Sam's Bridge and black families; Black Sam's Bridge, Ryan, Binn, Charlie Ryan, Benny Binns.

SIDE B 01:01:02 -- 01:05:26
Discussion about the Market Square building, silent movies, downtown stores, and egg grading; Strand, George Tull, bowling alley, movies, silent movies, Prince Edward Theater, Alf McKerney, candy store, Charlottetown, S. A. MacDonald's, Moore and MacLeod's, Morris and Smith, Jenkins, egg grading, Alf Peters.

SIDE B 01:05:26 -- 01:07:55
Discussion about milkmen, with mention of dance halls; Bill Smallwood, milkmen, Johnny Welsh, Milton Gurney, Jack Dickers, Gene Cullen, Garden City Dairy, Bucket of Blood, dance halls.

SIDE B 01:07:55 -- 01:09:55
Discussion about Madigan, who delivered liquor; Jed Madigan, liquor scripts, Bill Reddin, Art McInnis, Madigan's store, Connolly building.

SIDE B 01:09:55 -- 01:11:20
Discussion about his family farm in Fort Augustus; Fort Augustus graveyard, Owen Connolly, Duffy,
SIDE B 01:11:20 -- 01:12:07
Discussion about moving back out to Fort Augustus; coal, 1947, Weeks, Hennessey, coal yards.

SIDE B 01:12:07 -- 01:13:36
Discussion about local machine shops; Bruce Stewart's, Hall and Stavert's, forges, coal.

SIDE B 01:13:36 -- 01:15:30
Discussion about moving back out to Fort Augustus to farm continues; tractors, farming, horses.

SIDE B 01:15:30 -- 01:16:46
Discussion about ice travel; ice travel, Prince Street wharf.

SIDE B 01:16:46 -- 01:20:08
Discussion about farming continues, with mention of selling milk to cheese factories; Joe MacEachern, cheese makers, farming, potatoes, acreage, milk, cheese factory, Fort Augustus.

SIDE B 01:20:08 -- 01:23:33
Discussion about fishing in the East River and rum runners; rum runners, rum, rum running, bootleggers, MacKinnon's, fishing, East River, Oliver Smith.

SIDE B 01:23:33 -- 01:23:56
Brief discussion about hockey; hockey, Crystals, Abbies.

SIDE B 01:23:56 -- 01:25:35
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas tree, presents, Christmas dinner, goose raffles, King Goose Gallant.

SIDE B 01:25:35 -- 01:32:26
Discussion about his first job, doing roadwork, and a story about hitchhiking; first job, Patty MacMillan, wages, carpenter, Warren Paving Company, hitchhiking, walking, Ford V8, Fredericton, politics.

SIDE B 01:32:26 -- 01:34:05
Discussion about telephones, electricity, and roads; telephones, electricity, pavement, roads, 1950s, Premier Matheson, 1947.

SIDE B 01:34:05 -- 01:35:51
Discussion about a murder in Grabtown and a plane crash; Grabtown, murder, plane crash.

Tape ends at 01:35:51.