Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2001-02-12
Date Digitized
2010-07-22
Abstract
This is an interview with Herbert B. Schurman of Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Herb talks about cars, the Summerside waterfront, accidents, Milligan and Morrsion's, his brothers, his father's work for the Wyatt's, the Harvest Excursion, the pest house, horse sheds, dance halls, businesses in Summerside, restaurants, Reg Pope and airplanes, Chinese immigrants, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:19
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:07 -- 00:05:03
Discussion about a Model-T Ford he bought in 1917; cars, car prices, Model-T Ford, 1917, crank engine, tires.

SIDE A 00:05:03 -- 00:11:22
Discussion about the wharves and the waterfront in Summerside, with mention of Joseph Read and Co., mills, the circus, rats, and ferries; rats, garbage,mills, Joseph Read and Company, wharves, gristmills, Robinson's gristmill, elephants, Summerside, fires, Bedeque ferry, Prince Albert, 1920s, Bedeque wharf, brickyard, picnics.

SIDE A 00:11:22 -- 00:15:44
Discussion about Reg Gay losing his finger at the sawmill and Jimmy Mayhew's bealing, with mention of home remedies; Jimmy Mayhew, Reg Gay, Albert Gay, cabinetmaker, Schurman's mill, accidents, bealing, home remedies, cow manure.

SIDE A 00:15:44 -- 00:19:25
A story about Milligan and Morrison's fox barn and horse races; foxes, Chevrolet truck, Milligan and Morrison, horse races.

SIDE A 00:19:25 -- 00:25:10
Discussion about his father's work as a horseman for the Wyatts, with mention of animals in town; Wyatt, horseman, Clayton Schurman, horses, Summerside, wages, sleighs.

SIDE A 00:25:10 -- 00:28:08
Discussion about his brother Horatio, with mention of his race horses; Horatio Schurman, painter, paint, drinking, race horses.

SIDE A 00:28:08 -- 00:29:27
Discussion about horse sheds at the churches and livery stables; horse sheds, churches, livery stables.

SIDE A 00:29:27 -- 00:31:36
Discussion about the pest house; quarantine, diseases, diphtheria, scarlet fever, pestilence house, pest house, fires, Waugh.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:36.
SIDE B 00:31:41 -- 00:32:10
Discussion about the pest house continues; pest house, quarantine, pestilence house, pest house, hay, Waugh.

SIDE B 00:32:10 -- 00:35:10
Discussion about his friends going on the train out West for the the Harvest Excursion; 1930s, Harvest Excursion, trains, wages, Aaron MacDougall, 1920s.

SIDE B 00:35:10 -- 00:38:53
Discussion about his brother Ben and his work as a police officer; Ben Schurman, Boston, Sgt. Benjamin Schurman, policeman, police officers, policemen, paddy wagon.

SIDE B 00:38:53 -- 00:41:45
Discussion about John Holman's car and bootlegging; bootleggers, John Holman, LaSalle, cars, hearse, rum, Cecil Miller, Kier Mann.

SIDE B 00:41:45 -- 00:45:12
Discussion about dances at the Maple Leaf Club, the Regent Theatre, and taxis; Maple Leaf Club, Reg Pope, dance halls, Francis Perry, Regent Theatre, dances, airmen, taxis, Summerside, neon signs, Read's Corner.

SIDE B 00:45:12 -- 00:48:46
Discussion about Reg Pope's airplane and Herbie Mann's plane crash; airplanes, Reg Pope, Herbie Mann, Wings Driscoll, planes, plane crash, 1929.

SIDE B 00:48:46 -- 00:55:32
Discussion about April Fool's jokes at the post office; April Fool's, jokes, pranks, post office.

SIDE B 00:55:32 -- 00:59:16
Discussion about Dick Clarke and a story about bicycle soup; Dick Clarke, Chinese restaurants, characters, bicycle soup, Charlie Hum, Bicycle Soup.

SIDE B 00:59:16 -- 01:03:19
Discussion about Charlie Hum's Chinese restaurant and Chinese immigrants in Summerside; Summerside, Charlie Hum, Chinese restaurant, Chinese, immigrants, laundry, Water Street, Jack Steele's barbershop.

Tape ends at 01:03:19.