Kathleen Cameron T2 [Tape Two]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Cameron, Kathleen C.
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1998
Date Digitized
2010-07-28
Abstract
This is an interview with Kathleen C. Cameron of Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Kathleen talks about coal, farm animals, horses, going to the Union Commercial College in Summerside, her stenography work, different jobs she had, Brace and MacKay's, CNR, fox ranching, movie houses, traveling, trains, her family, the Harvest Excursion, WWII, her mother's death, and various other topics.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Summerside, PE
Subject (Temporal)
1916
1920s
1930s
WWII
1942
1960s
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:04:18
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:01:10
Discussion about coal; coal, Holman's, Reid's.

SIDE A 00:01:10 -- 00:08:46
Discussion about horses, cattle, and pigs; horses, driving horses, cattle, pigs, Summerside, pork, pig feed.

SIDE A 00:08:46 -- 00:14:30
Discussion about going to the Union Commercial College in Summerside and studying stenography; Union Commercial College, stenography, William Morin, teachers, college subjects, college tuition, typing, 1916.

SIDE A 00:14:30 -- 00:21:18
Discussion about her first job working at Brace and MacKay, with mention of working for Dominion Fur Sales; Brace and MacKay, A. S. MacKay, wages, Dominion Fur Sales.

SIDE A 00:21:18 -- 00:25:01
Discussion about movie houses and entertainment; entertainment, movie houses, movies, piano players, pianists, Happy Land, Fairy Land, theatres, silent movies.

SIDE A 00:25:01 -- 00:27:30
Discussion about working for Graham Rogers and his fox business; Graham Rogers, foxes, fox ranchers, fox prices, Dominion Fur Sales.

SIDE A 00:27:30 -- 00:29:26
Discussion about the first radio and the first car she remembers; radios, cars, Graham Rogers.

SIDE A 00:29:26 -- 00:32:07
Discussion about her brother who went on the Harvest Excursion, with mention of fox ranching; Harvest Excursion, fox ranching, fox ranchers, Hillard Cameron.

SIDE A ends at 00:32:07.
SIDE B 00:32:15 -- 00:35:14
Discussion about her brother who went on the Harvest Excursion, with mention of fox ranching and his death in an accident during WWII; Harvest Excursion, fox ranching, fox ranchers, Hillard Cameron, WWII, accidents.

SIDE B 00:35:14 -- 00:37:52
Discussion about her father's foxes; foxes, Peter Clark, D. R. Morrison, fox ranching, fox ranchers, Pure Canadian Silver Fox Company, silver foxes, fox feed, fox pelts.

SIDE B 00:37:52 -- 00:40:51
Discussion about trains, traveling, and her first time off the Island; trains, traveling, 1960s, Borden, Harry Holman.

SIDE B 00:40:51 -- 00:48:10
Discussion about working for Canadian National Railway; CNR, wages, rats, 1942, railway, trains, The Pig's Eye.

SIDE B 00:48:10 -- 00:51:38
Discussion about the first time she voted and working women; Women's vote, voting, gender roles, working women.

SIDE B 00:51:38 -- 00:54:57
Discussion about Summerside during WWII; Summerside, WWII, RAF, John Birkett.

SIDE B 00:54:57 -- 00:57:34
Discussion about her mother's death and her siblings; heart attacks, Emma Sheehan.

SIDE B 00:57:34 -- 01:04:18
Discussion about various topics including telephones, electricity, airplanes, and her centennial birthday; telephones, electricity, airplanes, airmail, centennial birthday.

Tape ends at 01:04:18.