Angus "The Bank" MacGillivray

Interview

Thompson, Reg "Dutch"

MacGillivray, Angus "The Bank"

1993-05-20

01:05:11

This is an interview with Angus "The Bank" MacGillivray of Pictou County, Nova Scotia. In this interview Angus talks about his year of rum running, Tiny Mason, rum runners and bootleggers, working at sawmills, fishing, and the end of rum running.

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Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson

***Disclaimer - This interview contains language and subject matter some may find inappropriate. SIDE A 00:00:06 -- 00:03:27 Discussion about his years of rum running; rum running, prohibition, cutters, 1920s, 1930s, mother ship, liquor fines. | SIDE A 00:03:27 -- 00:04:48 Discussion about Tiny Mason; Tiny Mason, rum running, hidden rum. | SIDE A 00:04:48 -- 00:06:43 Discussion about profits from rum running; rum running, prohibition, rum prices, 1920s, 1930s, mother ship, keg of rum, boat rum. | SIDE A 00:06:43 -- 00:08:17 Discussion about Doyle's sawmill, with mention of dances; Archie Carmichael, The Sire, Doyle, sawmill, Doyle's sawmill, wages, dances. | SIDE A 00:08:17 -- 00:10:56 Discussion about Ed and Tiny Mason and the end of rum running; Ed Mason, rum, Tiny Mason, boat rum, rum running, mother ship, 12 mile limit, thick rum. | SIDE A 00:10:56 -- 00:12:57 Discussion about Stanley Mason; storytelling, Stanley Mason. | SIDE A 00:12:57 -- 00:14:20 Discussion about working at sawmills; sawmills. | SIDE A 00:14:20 -- 00:21:23 Discussion about various topics including fishing, getting caught with rum, and cigarettes; fishing, salmon, rum, 1930s, RCMP, rum running, bootlegging, cigarettes, cigarette prices, Arthur Herb Arbuckle, Jack MacEachern, fishermen. | SIDE A 00:21:23 -- 00:23:24 Discussion about school, jobs, and bears; school, jobs, wages, bears. | SIDE A 00:23:24 -- 00:25:35 Discussion about Tiny Mason continues, with mention of priests drinking; Tiny Mason, rum runners, rum running, drinking, rum. | SIDE A 00:25:35 -- 00:32:26 Discussion about various topics including being chased and shot at by the coast guard and carrying cases of whiskey; rum running, coast guard, whiskey, Tommy Rodd Lewis, Mary Adams, whiskey prices, Ed Mason, bootleggers. | SIDE A ends at 00:32:26. SIDE B 00:32:37 -- 00:40:30 Discussion about rum runners, with mention of paying off the RCMP and the end of Tiny Mason; Thurston Cook, bootleggers, rum, rum running, MacDougall brothers, rum runners, New Glasgow, Tiny Mason, 1944, Catherine Mason, Hubert Davidge. | ***The remainder of the tape, 00:40:30 -- 01:05:11, is a combination of dead air and what appears to be a recording of CBC Radio. Tape ends at 01:05:11.