SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:10:17
How Frenchfort got its name, the Thompson's and the Thompson mill, Tom Smith, a local cheese factory, where the Boswell's first settled, what the farm was like when he was growing up, and tractors in the district; tractors, Boswell, Thompson, Thompson's mill, Frenchfort, Tom Smith, cheese factories.
SIDE A 00:10:17 -- 00:23:05
Pigs, putting roasts into wheat to save them, his father in-law, poultry on the farm, traveling on the trains to exhibitions around the Maritimes, getting into cattle in 1910, the difference between the types of cattle produced now and then, ducks, turkeys, sheep and the Charlottetown woollen mill; Charlottetown, 1910, pork, pigs, poultry, trains, traveling, exhibitions, cattle, ducks, turkeys, sheep, woolen mills.
SIDE A 00:23:05 -- 00:38:15
Changes to downtown Charlottetown, the Spillet's store selling chicks, bulls, breeding cattle, the travelling man studding out his horse, foxes on the farm, fox feed producers, the family only being farmers, seeing some of the last schooners travel on the river, the Harland, traveling as a young person, going to the exhibitions, quiet Sundays, and the local churches being built; Charlottetown, Spillet's, chickens, bulls, cattle, cattle breeding, traveling man, stallions, foxes, fox feed, farmers, farming, schooners, Harland, traveling, exhibitions, quiet Sundays, Sundays, churches.
SIDE A 00:38:15 -- 00:47:30
Traveling on the ice and the men who would mark the path by bushing the ice, a man having his horse fall through the ice and saving it, his father traveling on the ice, Wellington MacNeill the man who brought in horses from the West every spring, buying Western horses, and horses for the Cape Breton mines; horses, Wellington MacNeill, bushing the ice, ice travel, horse trading, Western horses, mining horse.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:30.
SIDE B 00:47:47 -- 00:58:05
Discussion about his dad using mussel mud on the farm, ploughing, potatoes and the varieties people grew, a two week holiday to pick potatoes, how potatoes were planted, using fish as fertilizer, thrashing, grain, and thrashers; mussel mud, farming, ploughing, plowing, potatoes, potato varieties, potato picking, fertilizer, thrashing, grain, thrashers.
SIDE B 00:58:05 -- 01:08:51
Beater diggers, firewood, bootleggers, stables in Charlottetown, stores and the Market Square, horses, lumber delivery in town, going to school in Dunstaffnage, and doctors in the family; doctors, firewood, beater diggers, bootleggers, livery stables, Charlottetown, stores, Market Square, horses, lumber, school, Dunstaffnage.
SIDE B 01:08:51 -- 01:19:12
His wife working as a teacher, his education, tobacco makers, bootleggers, a ventriloquist, peddlers, quiet Sundays and cards, and how he never knew his grandparents; teachers, school, tobacco, bootleggers, peddlers, ventriloquists, quiet Sundays, Sundays, cards, card games.
SIDE B 01:19:12 -- 01:35:27
Home remedies, his birth, helping your neighbours, his first radio, parties, fiddlers, his father noticing changes, snow, raffles, eating lobster, changes, shipping cows and horses; Dr. MacDonald, Eva Bearse, home remedies, radio, parties, fiddlers, snow, raffles, lobsters, shipping, cows, horses.
Tape ends at 01:35:27.
