Peter and Margaret LeClair

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: LeClair (Doucette), Margaret Alda
Interviewee: LeClair, Peter Alyre
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2000-03-12
Date Digitized
2010-08-10
Abstract
This is an interview with Peter Alyre and Margaret Alda (nee Doucette) LeClair of Charlottetown and North Rustico, P.E.I. In this interview Peter and Margaret talk about the Hindenburg, nicknames, Margaret's Acadian heritage, school, family, butchers, Market Square, horses and horse trading, mussel mud, rum running, potato picking, the 1930s, and various other topics.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Oyster Bed, PE
Brackley Point, PE
Charlottetown, PE
Subject (Temporal)
1936
1700s
1930s
WWII
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:15
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:21 -- 00:10:03
Discussion about seeing the Hindenburg; Hindenburg, 1936, Springbrook.

SIDE A 00:10:03 -- 00:15:47
Discussion about Margaret's great grandfather Bruno Doucette and her Acadian family history; Bruno Doucette, Acadians, French Explusion, Oyster Bed, Paris, 1700s.

SIDE A 00:15:47 -- 00:17:00
Discussion about King Goose Gallant and nicknames of people from Oyster Bed; Oyster Bed, King Goose Gallant.

SIDE A 00:17:00 -- 00:18:37
Discussion about her grandfather's hotel in Brackley Point; Brackley Point, hotels.

SIDE A 00:18:47 -- 00:21:02
Discussion about going to a convent; convent, nuns, Father Clarence Peters.

SIDE A 00:21:02 -- 00:24:36
Discussion about school; school, Oyster Bed School, Oyster Bed, fights, teachers, Thomas McNally.

SIDE A 00:24:36 -- 00:28:33
Discussion about her father, his work as a butcher and horse and cattle trader, and Market Square; Wilfred Doucette, Market Square, movies, movie houses, butchers, homemade soap, fat, cattle, Robinson's Island, Rustico Island.

SIDE A 00:28:33 -- 00:30:24
Discussion about rum running; rum running, Brackley Point, Wilfred Doucette.

SIDE A 00:30:24 -- 00:31:31
Discussion about potato picking and a story about starting a strike; strikes, potato picking, Kinkora.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:31.
SIDE B 00:31:36 -- 00:33:57
Discussion about potato picking and a story about starting a strike continues; strikes, potato picking, Kinkora, wages, 1930s.

SIDE B 00:33:57 -- 00:37:40
Discussion about her father, his horse trading, and traveling; horses, Wilfred Doucette, horse trading, butchers, traveling, roads.

SIDE B 00:37:40 -- 00:40:13
Discussion about going to Market Square and other places in Charlottetown; Market Square, Charlottetown.

SIDE B 00:40:13 -- 00:43:00
Discussion about plowing a golf course in Cavendish; politics, plowing.

SIDE B 00:43:00 -- 00:47:49
Discussion about the 1930s, his father, and rum running; Rudolph LeClair, Theo LeClair, 1930s, rum running, prohibition officers, 9 mile limit, RCMP, Mike Doyle, Doyle's Cove.

SIDE B 00:47:49 -- 00:52:05
Discussion about mussel mud; mussel mud, fertilizer, lime.

SIDE B 00:52:05 -- 00:56:21
Discussion about various topics including gristmills, blacksmiths, school, and deep snow; gristmills, Parson's Mill, Hope River, blacksmiths, Eddy Coles, school, deep snow, snow.

SIDE B 00:56:21 -- 00:58:48
Discussion about working with horses; plowing, ploughing, horses.

SIDE B 00:58:48 -- 01:00:10
Discussion about doctors and home remedies; Dr. McKenna, home remedies, cod liver oil.

SIDE B 01:00:10 -- 01:03:15
Discussion about various topics including people from the area who served in WWII, courting, and parties; WWII, courting, fiddlers, house parties.

Tape ends at 01:03:15.