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Contributors
Interviewee: Gay, Gordon "Bus"
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2010-01-06
Date Digitized
2010-07-13
Abstract
This is an interview with Gordon "Bus" Gay of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Bus talks about his family, the Brighton Club, Prince of Wales College, his uncle Well, Canada Packers, foxes, ice, a plane crash, Christmas, his father's bootlegging business, ice travel, raspberries, and people he knows around Charlottetown.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:56
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1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:06 -- 00:06:22
Discussion about his family and vacationing in New York, with mention of theatre; New York, vacations, Captain Jerry Maddock, theatre.

SIDE A 00:06:22 -- 00:08:57
Discussion about the Brighton Club and Prince of Wales College; Brighton Club, Charlottetown, Prince of Wales College, fire, model school.

SIDE A 00:08:57 -- 00:14:38
Discussion about his uncle Well's cattle business, his dealings with Canada Packers, and the family's foxes; Wellington MacNeill, Canada Packers, cattle, butchering, slaughterhouse, foxes, Ollie MacNeill, minks.

SIDE A 00:14:38 -- 00:16:19
Discussion about his family, his generosity, and sailing; boats, generosity.

SIDE A 00:16:19 -- 00:19:40
Discussion about using horse meat as fox feed and their ice house; horse meat, fox feed, foxes, ice house, ice, iceman, Drake's ice house, Billy Drake, Shel Smallwood.

SIDE A 00:19:40 -- 00:21:19
Discussion about his uncle Well's friends, Bus' work at Canada Packers, and farming; Wellington MacNeill, Canada Packers, farming, 1940s.

SIDE A 00:21:19 -- 00:23:05
Discussion about his wedding and his family; religion, Gordon Gay.

SIDE A 00:23:05 -- 00:25:27
Discussion about a local plane crash; plane crash, Kennedy.

SIDE A 00:25:27 -- 00:27:53
Discussion about crossing the ice and races on the ice; ice travel, Henny Peters, Canada Packers, horse races, ice races.

SIDE A 00:27:53 -- 00:30:33
Discussion about raspberries and fox ranching; raspberries, berries, jam, foxes, fox ranching.

SIDE A 00:30:33 -- 00:31:52
Discussion about J. Walter Jones and Canada Packers; J. Walter Jones, Canada Packers.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:52.
SIDE B 00:32:04 -- 00:35:30
Discussion about Canada Packers continues, with mention of people he worked with there and Christmas; Canada Packers, Joe Hanley, Christmas tree, Christmas.

SIDE B 00:35:30 -- 00:37:25
Discussion about Canada Packers continues; Canada Packers.

SIDE B 00:37:25 -- 00:44:02
Discussion about his father and his bootlegging business, with mention of Albert Griffin; bootlegging, rum, kegs of rum, alcohol, whiskey, Albert Griffin, 1930s, gambling, Wendell Barber, cars, Vernon Gay.

SIDE B 00:44:02 -- 00:47:16
Discussion about his father's butcher shop, with mention of gambling; Vernon Gay, butcher shop, gambling, card games.

SIDE B 00:47:16 -- 00:48:56
Discussion about his brother Bernie and Bernie's son Wayne; Bernie Gay, army, Wayne Gay, military.

SIDE B 00:48:56 -- 00:56:57
Discussion about bootlegging continues, with mention of Captain Dicks; drinking, bootlegging, liquor prices, rum running, 3 mile limit, Dalvay, Captain Dicks, Nellie J. Banks, rum, whiskey, Pithy Perry.

SIDE B 00:56:57 -- 01:03:56
Discussion about people he knows and butchering pigs; taxis, Jimmy Power, Shel Foon, Cleaver MacLean, butchering, pigs.

Tape ends at 01:03:56.