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Date Recorded
2007-01-16
Date Digitized
2010-06-09
Abstract
This interview continues with Mary Sage talking about milk, her grandmother, bread, flour bag clothes, men versus women and women's jobs, Prince of Wales College and being homesick, Premier Alec Campbell, Georgie Read Barton, going to South Africa, John Rileym, Carol Burke, Gordon's death and her father, her job in Pictou, the changes at the liquor store, phones and railway stations.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:28
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:05:28
Discussion about milk, her grandmother, bread, flour bag clothes and her grandfather who was a country vet and helped deliver her;, country vets, veterinarians, childbirth, milk, bread, flour bags, flour bag clothes.

SIDE A 00:05:28 -- 00:20:46
Women's jobs and how they were paid, where she worked, city council, bank loans, her stores and how she once met the Queen; Queen Elizabeth, women's work, gender equality, bank loans, stores.

SIDE A 00:20:46 -- 00:23:07
Going to Prince of Wales College and being homesick; homesickness, Prince of Wales College.

SIDE A 00:23:07 -- 00:29:38
Premier Alec Campbell and having him over for dinner; Alec Campbell, Premier Campbell, Premier Alec Campbell.

SIDE A 00:29:38 -- 00:31:35
Discussion about the painter Georgie Read Barton; Georgie Read Barton, Georgie Barton, painters, artists.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:35.
SIDE B 00:31:52 -- 00:39:20
Discussion about a Georgie Read Barton painting, how she went to South Africa, the Croft house, her husband in New York, and Alec Campbell; Alec Campbell, Premier Campbell, New York, traveling, South Africa, Croft, Georgie Read Barton, artists, painters, paintings.

SIDE B 00:39:20 -- 00:52:37
Mary talks about John Riley, Carol Burke, Gordon's death, her father, memories of WWII, nicknames, her father's memories of WWI, him owing money and the back round on the store; John Riley, Carol Burke, Gordon Stewart, WWII, nicknames, WWI, debt.

SIDE B 00:52:37 -- 00:58:38
Her job in Pictou, skating, falling through the ice, forerunners, other jobs, and deep snow; deep snow, snow, skating, Pictou, forerunners.

SIDE B 00:58:38 -- 01:03:28
Discussion about changes over the years; liquor stores, telephones, railway stations, traveling, Charlottetown, politics.

Tape ends at 01:03:28.