Mac Dixon T1 [Tape One]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Dixon, Mac
Researcher: Gray, Tristan John and MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-07-26
Abstract
This is an interview with Mac Dixon. In this interview Mac talks about his family history, ice travel, his family's mill and other mills, horses, and farming.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Temporal)
1942
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:20
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:12:55
Dixon family ancestors, the Andrews, Walter Bell, ice travel, his grandmother Dixon and another ice travel story; ice travel, Dixon, Andrews, ancestors, Walter Bell.

SIDE A 00:12:55 -- 00:24:35
Muddy roads and the ambulance coming by boat, the family mill, and his father injuring his hand at the mill; accidents, mills, Dixon's mill, roads, ambulances.

SIDE A 00:24:35 -- 00:31:34
His father John "Jack" H.B. Dixon, the remaining mill, installing new kinds of water wheels, mill stones, mills being very important, how oatmeal was made, and the mill toll; miller's toll, John Dixon, Jack Dixon, mills, water wheels, mill stones, oatmeal.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:34.
SIDE B 00:31:43 -- 00:47:16
Discussion about school, the mill closing in 1942, flour, other mills, the sawmill, his grandmother running the carding mill and how it worked; carding mills, 1942, mills, school, flour, sawmills.

SIDE B 00:47:16 -- 00:56:00
His siblings, the green sleigh, school, horses, story of his first horse, showing some of his horses, and ploughing; ploughing, plowing, sleighs, school, horses.

SIDE B 00:56:00 -- 01:03:20
Story of a good horse, horse racing, horses from the west, horse breeds, and stallions; stallions, horse breeds, Western horses, horses, horse racing.

Tape ends at 01:03:20.