SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:03:26
Discussion about the Chisholm's store and carpentry business, with mention of Lord's General Store; James Chisholm, Heath Chisholm, Chisholm, Lord's General Store, J. F Lord, carpenters, furniture.
SIDE A 00:03:26 -- 00:10:19
Discussion about Sheldon's grandparents, with mention of their mill, Gaelic, and helping others; South Melville, miller, gristmill, sawmill, cloth mill, mills, Dixon, millstones, polio, DeSable, Gaelic, Chas Bell.
SIDE A 00:10:19 -- 00:11:46
Discussion about his father's mixed farm; mixed farm, potatoes, shipping, pigs, horses, cows.
SIDE A 00:11:46 -- 00:15:20
Discussion about horses and cows; blood horse, horse breeds, cow doctor, veterinarians, bloat, black water, animal diseases, Tuttle's Elixir.
SIDE A 00:15:20 -- 00:16:08
Discussion about blacksmiths; James Arbing, blacksmith, horses.
SIDE A 00:16:08 -- 00:17:58
Discussion about sleighs, carriages, and the men who made them; MacNeill, Francis, pung sleigh, sleigh, carriage, Francis sleigh.
SIDE A 00:17:58 -- 00:19:42
Discussion about mussel mud, lime, and using lobster as fertilizer; mussel mud, lime, lobster, fertilizer.
SIDE A 00:19:42 -- 00:20:45
Discussion about his father's pigs and a story about losing 85 in a fire; Murdock Kennedy, Canada Packers, pigs, hogs, fire.
SIDE A 00:20:45 -- 00:22:33
Discussion about Sheldon's chores on the farm when he was growing up, his siblings, and selling eggs; chores, Vance Dixon, beef, eggs, trading eggs, Lord's General Store, egg prices.
SIDE A 00:22:33 -- 00:27:01
Discussion about school, potato picking, Flo's work as a teacher; school, one room schoolhouse, teachers, potato picking, wages, potatoes, school subjects, teaching.
SIDE A 00:27:01 -- 00:28:07
Discussion about WWI and the Halifax Explosion; WWI, Halifax Explosion.
SIDE A 00:28:07 -- 00:29:40
Discussion about the Spanish Flu, which both their father's caught; 1918, 1919, Spanish Flu, neighbours.
SIDE A 00:29:40 -- 00:31:08
Discussion about Sheldon's chores continues; thrashing, chores, holidays, Morse engine.
SIDE A 00:31:08 -- 00:33:55
Discussion about power plants and electricity; water power, mills, electricity, 1924, North Tryon, engine, power plant, lights, washing machines.
SIDE A 00:33:55 -- 00:38:15
Discussion about ice houses and fox ranching; ice houses, ice, fox feed, fox ranching, horse meat, tripe, 1940, wild foxes.
SIDE A 00:38:15 -- 00:41:20
Discussion about Prince of Wales College and Flo's teaching; Prince of Wales College, Dr. Robertson, Blanchard, Billy Archie MacDonald, teaching certification, second class teaching licence, Westmoreland, school, horse and sleigh, deep snow, snowstorms, buffalo skin.
SIDE A 00:41:20 -- 00:45:22
Discussion about telephones and cars; telephones, cars, Maxwell car, 1920s, Wendell Beaton, tricks, horses.
SIDE A 00:45:22 -- 00:47:23
Discussion about his general store; general store, rationing, accounts, store credit, coupons, trading.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:23.
SIDE B 00:47:31 -- 00:52:10
Discussion about his general store, salesmen and wholesalers, roads, and a phone in his store; Johnny Stevenson, molasses, wholesalers, Harry Lepburn, telephone, roads, puncheon, electricity, kerosene, 1940s, Beaton, R. A. Mutch.
SIDE B 00:52:10 -- 00:54:23
Discussion about his first memory of a radio and Chisholm's store; Dempsey fight, radio, Chisholm's store, ice cream, radio programs.
SIDE B 00:54:23 -- 00:56:10
Discussion about the post office and railway stations; post office, railway, railway station, Albany, train.
SIDE B 00:56:10 -- 00:59:05
A story about a plane crash; airplane, plane crash.
SIDE B 00:59:05 -- 01:01:02
Discussion about Elmer Gamble the butter maker and a cheese factory; butter maker, butter factory, butter, Elmer Gamble, cheese factory.
SIDE B 01:01:02 -- 01:02:54
Discussion about Stanfield's woolen mill and the fire there; Stanfield's woolen mill, woolen mill, fire, 1920s, Stanfield.
SIDE B 01:02:54 -- 01:04:00
Discussion about the SS Harland and ice boats; SS Harland, Harland, ice boats, drowning, Lem Dawson.
SIDE B 01:04:00 -- 01:04:52
Discussion about heat; wood hear, coal heat, coal, stoves.
SIDE B 01:04:52 -- 01:07:57
Discussion about his favourite horses; horses.
SIDE B 01:07:57 -- 01:09:22
Discussion about his store, local stores, and storms; general stores, storms, Albany, MeacLeod, MacCormac.
SIDE B 01:09:22 -- 01:14:49
Discussion about pack peddlers and egg grading; Bill Michael, chewing gum, meat peddlers, egg grading, bartering eggs, eggs, fish peddlers.
SIDE B 01:14:49 -- 01:16:46
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, Christmas tree, oranges, presents, Christmas dinner, toys, dolls.
SIDE B 01:16:46 -- 01:18:21
Discussion about quiet Sundays and church; Sundays, quiet Sundays, church.
SIDE B 01:18:21 -- 01:19:27
Discussion about skating and rinks; skating, Victoria Rink, rinks.
SIDE B 01:29:27 -- 01:21:38
Discussion about the local hall and the temperance movement; Yeo, temperance movement, rum.
SIDE B 01:21:38 -- 01:22:59
Discussion about church and politics; church, politics, religion.
SIDE B 01:22:59 -- 01:24:24
Discussion about loafers at the store, with mention of hockey; loafers, general store, hockey.
SIDE B 01:24:24 -- 01:27:23
Discussion about the first tractor he saw and trading horses for tractors; tractors, Charlie Ives, horse trading, Cockshutt, horses.
SIDE B 01:27:23 -- 01:30:41
Discussion about the first car he had and a story about Charlie Bell's mother, with mention of gender roles; cars, Model-A Ford, car prices, roads, 1920, Charlie Bell, women drivers, Nash, voting, women's vote, gender roles.
SIDE B 01:30:41 -- 01:32:36
Discussion about the local sugar woods; sugar woods, Raymond Wood, Bob Wood, Adelaide Wood, sugar bush.
SIDE B 01:32:36 -- 01:35:08
A story about a drowning at Mill Pond and a story about shorts; Mill Pond, drowning, Willy Craig, shorts, Mary Howatt.
Tape ends at 01:35:08.
