Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1998-03-02
Date Digitized
2010-08-12
Abstract
This is an interview with Ruth Louise Stewart (nee Garnhum) of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Ruth talks about her family, the last execution on P.E.I., the Whitlocks, growing up in Charlottetown, businesses and places around Charlottetown, going to Boston for surgery, school, her pet parrot, her husband, home remedies, hockey, groceries, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:09
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:03:16
Discussion about her grandparents; John Warren, Annie Warren, Rebeccas, mailman, walking.

SIDE A 00:03:16 -- 00:05:21
Discussion about the hanging of Phillips and Lund, with mention of Gallows Hill; murder, hangings, Earl Lund, Frederick Phillips, Peter Trainor, 1941, executions, Charlottetown, Gallows Hill.

SIDE A 00:05:21 -- 00:06:23
Discussion about the Whitlocks; Nelson Whitlock, Buck Whitlock, Tarkie Whitlock, Stewart's Bakery.

SIDE A 00:06:23 -- 00:09:29
Discussion about her parents and the Garnhum side of her family, with mention of dating Jim Evans and traveling; John Garnhum, Annie Garnhum, Jim Evans, boxers, traveling, transportation.

SIDE A 00:09:29 -- 00:10:54
Discussion about coal; coal, Pickard's.

SIDE A 00:10:54 -- 00:11:22
Discussion about her parents continues; John Garnhum.

SIDE A 00:11:22 -- 00:15:58
Discussion about businesses in Charlottetown; Charlottetown, White's Restaurant, Old Spain, restaurants, Drake, iceman, Milton Bell, stables, chickens, farm animals, Pond Street, ice.

SIDE A 00:15:58 -- 00:20:28
Discussion about school and a story about going to get surgery on her eyes in Boston, with mention of places in Charlottetown; school, Prince Street School, surgery, 1930, Boston, Fran McInnis, Jessie Fullerton, Marion Douglas, teachers, Charlottetown.

SIDE A 00:20:28 -- 00:21:00
Discussion about telephones; telephones, party lines.

SIDE A 00:21:00 -- 00:23:00
Stories about her parrot; parrots, birds, lightning.

SIDE A 00:23:00 -- 00:24:18
Discussion about her brother; Garnhum.
SIDE A 00:24:18 -- 00:31:13
Discussion about growing up and living in Charlottetown, with mention of her son; Charlottetown, skating, Dizzy Block, Charlottetown Forum, Sunnyside, dances, livery stables, Dixon's dance hall, livery stables, Ivan Darrach, milkman, movies, Strand Theatre, milk, movie houses, theatres.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:13.
SIDE B 00:31:19 -- 00:35:04
Discussion about Charlottetown continues; Charlottetown, Market Square, The Butts, bath houses, cars, Tanton, P.J.'s Grocery, shopping, groceries, Saunders and Newsom, sausages, swimming, Victoria Park, Brent Garnhum.

SIDE B 00:35:04 -- 00:36:02
Discussion about various topics including rationing and tough times; rationing.

SIDE B 00:36:02 -- 00:39:53
Discussion about her husband and their marriage; Minnie Stewart, Trinity Manse, honeymoons, Earl Stewart, Minnie Gillis.

SIDE B 00:39:53 -- 00:40:33
Discussion about church; church.

SIDE B 00:40:33 -- 00:41:41
Discussion about bootleggers; bootleggers, Sydney Street, Charlottetown.

SIDE B 00:41:41 -- 00:43:00??
Discussion about home remedies and food; home remedies, mustard plasters, plasters, Epsom salts, fish.

SIDE B 00:43:00 -- 00:47:08
Discussion about slaughterhouses and food; beef, slaughterhouses, Davis and Fraser, sausages, meat, pork, Saunders, Canada Packers, pickled ham, Katie MacKenna.

SIDE B 00:47:08 -- 00:48:52
Discussion about hockey; hockey, hockey trains, hockey games, Charlottetown Forum, 1930.

SIDE B 00:48:52 -- 00:51:53
Discussion about various topics including Chief Birtwhistle, fires, and her parents; Chief Birtwhistle, fires, Jack Garnhum, Annie Warren, Annie Garnhum.

SIDE B 00:51:53 -- 00:54:47
Discussion about various topics including the Watkins man, Old Home Week, and the circus; circus, Old Home Week, Watkins man, elephants.

***The remainder of the tape, 00:54:47 -- 01:03:09, is blank.
Tape ends at 01:03:09.