Hattie Hughes T1 [Tape One]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Hughes, Hattie
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2004-02-02
Date Digitized
2010-07-12
Abstract
This is an interview with Hattie Hughes from Cardigan, P.E.I. In this interview Hattie talks about her family, poverty and the 1930s, Christmas, school, chores, farming, her father, horses, homemade goods, salmon fishing, superstitions and ghost stories, Pound Parties and Jenny Farrell, delivering the mail, Benny Binns, African Canadians Islanders, moonshine, the Shepherds, and her first jobs.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Cardigan, PE
Charlottetown, PE
Subject (Temporal)
1960s
1930s
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:31
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:03 -- 00:04:31
Discussion about her family and life growing up with her father; Edmund Walsh, farming, bartering, 1930.

SIDE A 00:04:31 -- 00:05:37
Discussion about life during the The Great Depression; 1930s, The Great Depression, poverty.

SIDE A 00:05:37 -- 00:11:00
Discussion about Christmas, school, and growing up in poverty, with a story about hiding from nuns from the orphanage; Charlotte Ryan, Christmas, presents, school, poverty.

SIDE A 00:11:00 -- 00:18:00
Discussion about chores and her childhood; chores, milking, St. Patrick's Day, Father Pat McMann, fish hatchery, Charlie Ryan.

SIDE A 00:18:00 -- 00:22:18
Discussion about her family continues, with mention of prejudices; Shepherd, prejudice, poverty, African Canadian.

SIDE A 00:22:18 -- 00:26:01
Discussion about horses, farming, and homemade goods; horses, farming, soap, homemade soap, fat, bannock, eggs, egg trading.

SIDE A 00:26:01 -- 00:29:08
Discussion about delivering the mail and salmon fishing; mail, postman, mailman, mail delivery, horses, salmon, fishing.

SIDE A 00:29:08 -- 00:31:41
Discussion about flour bag clothes and poverty; flour bag clothes, homemade clothes, poverty.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:41.
SIDE B 00:31:52 -- 00:32:37
Discussion about poverty continues; Jack Webster, dances, money, poverty.

SIDE B 00:32:37 -- 00:34:50
Discussion about superstitions and ghost stories; ghosts, superstitions, phases of the moon.

SIDE B 00:34:50 -- 00:41:56
Discussion about Pound Parties and Jenny Farrell; Shepherd, Jenny Farrell, blueberries, berry picking, prices, fire, Pound Parties, frolics.

SIDE B 00:41:56 -- 00:50:09
Discussion about her father, with mention of Dr. Robinson and poverty; Dr. Robinson, prayers, poverty.

SIDE B 00:50:09 -- 00:52:36
Discussion about moonshine; 1930s, moonshine, Willy Walsh.

SIDE B 00:52:36 -- 00:56:18
Discussion about the Shepherd family from Cardigan and African Canadian Islanders, with mention of the bog; Shepherds, Cardigan, African Canadians, black Islanders, Charlie Ryan, Louis Cantelo, Bill Ryan, bog.

SIDE B 00:56:18 -- 00:57:24
Discussion about the murder of Benny Binns; Benny Binns, Till Foley, murder, Souris.

SIDE B 00:57:24 -- 01:00:11
Discussion about her friends in Charlottetown; Billy Pryor, African Canadians, Dolly Gallant, Shepherd, Cardigan, poverty.

SIDE B 01:00:11 -- 01:03:31
Discussion about her first jobs; wages, 1960s, Hazel MacLeod, Everett King.

Tape ends at 01:03:31.