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Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1996-04-05
Date Digitized
2010-06-21
Abstract
This is the second half of an interview with Katherine "Kay" Haslam Wood of Victoria, P.E.I. In this interview Kay talks about playing hockey, old businesses in Victoria, traveling, courting, trips to Charlottetown, electricity, family, farm work, voting, illnesses, fishing, schooners, ghosts and phenomenons, Sundays, radios, the phantom ship, living in Rhode Island, and funerals.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:27
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:02:35
Discussion about her experiences playing hockey continues from Tape One; hockey, female hockey players, Mamie Miller, hockey gear, hockey equipment, Stanley Lord, Frank Pigeon.

SIDE A 00:02:35 -- 00:05:56
Discussion about former businesses in Victoria, with mention of mussel mud; milliner, Victoria, SS Harland, general store, Elijah Wright, lime kilns, Philip Beer, mussel mud.

SIDE A 00:05:56 -- 00:10:17
Discussion about traveling in sleighs, courting, and how she met her husband; buffalo skin, buffalo hide, sleighs, courting, cars, 1927, H. B. Wood, Bruce Yeo, motion pictures, Victoria, Mrs. Keith Boswell.

SIDE A 00:10:17 -- 00:16:13
Discussion about trips to Charlottetown, with mention of her first ice cream cone and how the mail was delivered; Charlottetown, traveling, SS Harland, Model-A Ford, Woolworth's, ice cream, early 1900s, trains, Breadalbane, Fred Wotton, George Wotton, railway, mailman, postman.

SIDE A 00:16:13 -- 00:20:48
Discussion about former businesses in Victoria continues, with mention of quilts and quilting parties and telephones; Wright Bros., Wright Brothers, Mimi MacDonald, milliner, hats, Crapaud, tailor, Isaac Beer, quilts, quilting parties, telephone, telephone operator, news, gossip, Pansy Howatt, Amy Howatt.

SIDE A 00:20:48 -- 00:24:19
Discussion about getting electricity, with a story about a cat helping to wire the houses; electricity, Ives' Pond, Tryon, Leard's Mill, Crapaud, Jack Leard, lights, lanterns, cat.

SIDE A 00:24:19 -- 00:28:37
Discussion about the history of her family house and the village of Victoria, with mention of the last duel on the Island; Palmer, Victoria, James Bardin Palmer, 1802, 1910, Father of Confederation, George Coles, 1800s, Edward Palmer.

SIDE A 00:28:37 -- 00:31:49
Discussion about illnesses; polio, twist tobacco, neighbours, influenza, flu, chewing tobacco.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:49.
SIDE B 00:31:57 -- 00:33:00
Discussion about the end of WWI; WWI.

SIDE B 00:33:00 -- 00:36:46
Discussion about clam digging and lobster fishing in Victoria, fish, schooners, and canneries; Victoria, clams, lobsters, canneries, fish, fishing, canneries, schooners.

SIDE B 00:36:46 -- 00:37:48
Discussion about butter and cheese factories; butter factory, cheese factory, Hampton, Crapaud.

SIDE B 00:37:48 -- 00:42:17
Discussion about homemade food, farm work, neighbours, and family; homemade food, homemade goods, homemade, farm work, chores, women's work, sheep, wool, yarn, homemade soap, neighbours.

SIDE B 00:42:17 -- 00:43:47
Discussion about quiet Sundays; Sundays, quiet Sundays, church.

SIDE B 00:43:47 -- 00:45:09
Discussion about the first radios; radios, radio programs, crystal radio, 1920.

SIDE B 00:45:09 -- 00:49:50
A story about a ghost light on the bridge, with mention of other ghosts and will-o'-the-wisps; H. B. Wood, ghosts, wisp, will-o'-the-wisp, orbs.

SIDE B 00:49:50 -- 00:52:47
A story about the phantom ship; phantom ship, ghosts.

SIDE B 00:52:47 -- 00:54:49
Discussion about the first time she voted and politics; politics, women's vote, voting.

SIDE B 00:54:49 -- 00:58:59
Discussion about going to Rhode Island to attend nursing school and working at a jewelry wholesalers; train, May Beer, Rhode Island, nurse, jewelry.

SIDE B 00:58:59 -- 01:03:27
A story about the death of Dr. Hillcoat's wife and a discussion about funerals and wakes; funerals, wakes, Dr. Hillcoat, Victoria, Percy Dawson, undertaker.

Tape ends at 01:03:27.