Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2004-02-17
Date Digitized
2010-07-09
Abstract
This is an interview with Richard "Richie" Bagnall Smith of New Glasgow, P.E.I. In this interview Richie talks about family, home remedies, mills, horses, mussel mud, farming, potatoes, the 1930s, thrashing, tractors, foxes, sheep, eggs, blacksmiths, sleighs, school, Christmas, radio, cars, traveling, and his wedding.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:43
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:02:58
Discussion about his family history and his mother's cooking; Smith, Bagnall, Nettie Smith, Nettie Bagnall, Johnson, Johnson's mill.

SIDE A 00:02:58 -- 00:07:03
Discussion about home remedies, mills, and livery stables; home remedies, mills, Gates' mill, gristmill, livery stables, flour.

SIDE A 00:07:03 -- 00:13:36
Discussion about potato farming and mussel mud, with mention of bushing the ice; mussel mud, fertilizer, bushing the ice, potato farming, potato varieties, potato prices, Hunter River.

SIDE A 00:13:36 -- 00:15:11
Discussion about prices in the 1930s and doing business in Hunter River; 1930s, prices, Hunter River, Boyle's store.

SIDE A 00:15:11 -- 00:23:14
Discussion about the family farm, with mention of milk and meat; 1929, salt pork, brine, cattle, milk, pigs, meat, butchering, beef, pork, meat peddlers.

SIDE A 00:23:14 -- 00:25:34
Discussion about foxes; foxes, fox ranching, fox feed.

SIDE A 00:25:34 -- 00:31:49
Discussion about sheep and horses; sheep, wool, Harry Cole, horses, traveling man, horse breeds.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:49.
SIDE B 00:31:58 -- 00:33:44
Discussion about horse continues, with mention of school; horses, school.

SIDE B 00:33:44 -- 00:35:15
Discussion about poultry and eggs; ducks, poultry, fowl, geese, eggs, chickens.

SIDE B 00:35:15 -- 00:39:27
Discussion about blacksmiths, sleighs, and wagons; Buck Hill, blacksmiths, horseshoe prices, horseshoeing, sleighs, wagons, wagon wheels.

SIDE B 00:39:27 -- 00:42:50
Discussion about tractors and balers, with mention of horses; tractors, Massey, 1930s, horses, balers.

SIDE B 00:42:50 -- 00:45:17
Discussion about black oats and apples; black oats, horse feed, apples, apple varieties, Russet apples.

SIDE B 00:45:17 -- 00:46:09
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, Christmas tree, presents.

SIDE B 00:46:09 -- 00:49:50
Discussion about firewood, chores, and thrashing; firewood, cords of wood, chores, thrashing, thrashers.

SIDE B 00:49:50 -- 00:51:05
Discussion about radio and dances; radio, dances, religion.

SIDE B 00:51:05 -- 00:52:29
Discussion about thrashing continues, with mention of horsepower; thrashing, horsepower.

SIDE B 00:52:29 -- 00:54:27
Discussion about Walter Weeks, with mention of Western horses; Walter Weeks, tractors, farming equipment, Western horses.

SIDE B 00:54:27 -- 00:55:21
Discussion about WWI, the Halifax Explosion, and the Spanish Flu; Halifax Explosion, Spanish Flu.

SIDE B 00:55:21 -- 00:58:20
Discussion about the biggest changes over the years, family, telephones, and electricity; Cyrus Smith, telephones, electricity, storms.

SIDE B 00:58:20 -- 01:03:43
Discussion about cars and traveling, with mention of their wedding and courting; cars, 1920s, traveling, roads, wedding, 1939, honeymoon, courting.

Tape ends at 01:03:43.