Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Ings, Harley
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-08-09
Abstract
This is an interview with Harley Ings. In this interview Harley talks about school, Walter Jones, cattle, milk and dairies, cheese, Mt. Herbert, blacksmiths, horses, strong men, politics, silver foxes, WWII, plowing, tractors, thrashing, potato diggers, the orphanage and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:02:50
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:12:08
Discussion about the old school, Walter Jones being a sportsman, his involvement with the Trans Canada Highway, his world record cow, his father shipping milk dairies, and dairy production methods; dairies, Hazelbrook Dairy, Hillsborough Dairy, cattle, school, Walter Jones, Trans Canada Highway, milk.

SIDE A 00:12:08 -- 00:18:52
Discussion about cheese being shipped off the Island, cheese makers, Hazelbrook, horses being tied up in their barn, buildings that used to be in Mount Herbert, and interesting train services; Hazelbrook, cheese, chees makers, horses, Mt. Herbert, trains.

SIDE A 00:18:52 -- 00:31:17
Discussion about how dairies were co-operatively owned and the man who came down from Ontario to help organize the people, a photo of the dairy, butter being made in the factory, lumber practices, and different dairy markets; dairies, co-ops, butter, lumber.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:17.
SIDE B 00:31:30 -- 00:38:38
Discussion about dairy men giving all of the money they collected to the community in Pownal for a sports centre, Henry MacKenzie, Lorne Jenkins the blacksmith, his grandfather and horses, learning to plow, his grandfather making a living with horses, and taking a judge to Montague in a storm with horses; judges, Montague, storms, horses, plowing, ploughing, blacksmiths, Lorne Jenkins, Henry MacKenzie, Pownal.

SIDE B 00:38:38 -- 00:46:32
Discussion about feats of strength, having the only house where cards were played, Tories and Liberals getting along, horse-drawn hearses, the deep holes from mussel mud and Alf Stewart the fiddler; Alf Stewart, Tories, Liberals, politics, mussel mud, hearses, strength, strong men, cards, card games, mussel mud.

SIDE B 00:46:32 -- 00:58:08
Discussion about silver foxes, tractors, winning a plowing match, the Mt. Herbert School, jumping the train home, taking over the farm at age 14 and the size of their herd; silver foxes, tractors, plowing, ploughing, Mt. Herbert School, school, trains, farming.

SIDE B 00:58:08 -- 01:02:50
Discussion about thrashing, the MacKenzie beater digger, the orphanage, and Rev. Daniel MacLean giving his farm so the orphanage could be built; Rev. Daniel MacLean, MacKenzie digger, beater diggers, thrashing, orphanages.

Tape ends at 01:02:50.