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Contributors
Date Recorded
1998-01-28
Date Digitized
2010-06-23
Abstract
This is an interview with Evelyn MacFarlane. In this interview Evelyn talks about hotels, tourism, her family background, family, school, home remedies, WWI, the Spanish Flu, hockey, blacksmiths, pack peddlers, Todd Hollow, cars, the 1930s, religion, her husband, bushing the ice, traveling, and various other topics.
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Subject (Geographic)
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:49:17
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:41
The Pleasant View Hotel, The Harland, Shaw's Hotel, early tourism, Brackley, and Gregor's Hotel; Plesant View Hotel, Harland, Shaw's Hotel, Brackley, Gregor's Hotel, tourism.

SIDE A 00:02:41 -- 00:12:10
Her family's background, Gaelic, her father, horses, the DeSable School, and Doctor Bell; dentists, Dr. Bell, Gaelic, horses, DeSable School.

SIDE A 00:12:10 -- 00:18:45
Home remedies, WWI, the Halifax Explosion, and the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, home remedies, WWI, Halifax Explosion.

SIDE A 00:18:45 -- 00:22:20
Hockey, local blacksmiths, millinery, entertainment, becoming married in 1925, and music lessons; music lessons, hockey, millinery, blacksmiths, marriage, 1925.

SIDE A 00:22:20 -- 00:31:35
Milliner Jennie Rendel, Charlie Bell, Riley the Pack Peddler, general stores, and door-to-door men taking eggs; pack peddlers, Charlie Bell, Jennie Rendel, milliner, general stores.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:35.
SIDE B 00:31:44 -- 00:38:55
The legend of Todd Hollow, her first car, gramophones, the Depression, Presbyterians, local characters and mussel mud; Todd Hollow, cars, gramophones, 1930s, religion, characters, mussel mud.

SIDE B 00:38:55 -- 00:43:30
School, the Harland, bushing the ice, livery stables, airplanes, leaving the Island for the first time, courting, trips to Victoria, concerts, and basket socials; school, Harland, Large's Liver Stable, livery stables, traveling, courting, Victoria, concerts, basket socials, socials.

SIDE B 00:43:30 -- 00:49:17
Her husband, their marriage and honeymoon, J. Walter and the strawberry stain, and Dutch's house; marriage, honeymoons, J. Walter.

Tape ends at 00:49:17.