Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Birch, A. Enid
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1999-01-13
Date Digitized
2010-08-12
Abstract
This is an interview with A. Enid Birch (nee Newcombe) of Birch Hill and Summerside, P.E.I. In this interview Enid talks about her music education, playing the organ, winters, driving, cars, movies, fox ranching, Summerside, the Titanic, WWI, her family, school, the Spanish Flu, blacksmiths, funerals, Christmas, and various other topics.
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Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:18
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:01:36 is blank.
SIDE A 00:01:36 -- 00:05:26
Discussion about her music education; music, music lessons, Prof. Watkins, Prof. Kerr, Mount Allison University, music teachers, Mary Adams, organists.

SIDE A 00:05:26 -- 00:10:08
Discussion about playing the organ at St. James Anglican Church, among other places; organists, hymns, St. James Anglican Church, Christmas concerts.

SIDE A 00:10:08 -- 00:10:58
Discussion about driving on the left side of the road; roads.

SIDE A 00:10:58 -- 00:17:01
Discussion about winters; deep snow, snowstorms, winters, Jim Gillis, bushing the ice, snow, horse and sleigh, drownings.

SIDE A 00:17:01 -- 00:21:00
Discussion about her first ride in a car and movie houses; cars, Henry Gaudet, movie houses, Happyland, movies, Summerside, 1916, player piano.

SIDE A 00:21:00 -- 00:27:17
Discussion about Milligan's fox ranch, horse races, and Milligan's Corner; Milligan's fox ranch, fox ranches, foxes, fox feed, Ernest Birch, Jim Milligan, cold storage, horse racing, horse races, night races, Milligan's Corner, Summerside.

SIDE A 00:27:17 -- 00:28:55
Discussion about the Titanic; Titanic, 1912.

SIDE A 00:28:55 -- 00:31:41
Discussion about WWI; WWI, 1914, army recruiting, Harold Lidstone, Red Cross.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:41.
SIDE B 00:31:48 -- 00:35:12
Discussion about the Women's Institute and how she met her husband, with mention of family history; courting, Percy Birch, Birch Hill, Dennis Birch, Women's Institute, 1922, Birch, Paul Newcome, Lee Newcome.

SIDE B 00:35:12 -- 00:38:35
Discussion about the King George Hall and other buildings constructed by Wilfred Maynard, with mention of the opening of the hall; King George Hall, Wilfred Maynard, Milligan barn, carpenters, 1912, Mary Adams, Birch Hill, box lunches.

SIDE B 00:38:35 -- 00:42:49
Discussion about WWI continues, with mention of WWII; WWII, WWI, Red Cross, war parcels, Vincent MacAusland, WWII casualties, Armistice Day.

SIDE B 00:42:49 -- 00:44:00
Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, 1919.

SIDE B 00:44:00 -- 00:46:51
Discussion about Port Hill and school; Port Hill, post offices, O'Connor, Port Hill School, school, Walter Newcombe.

SIDE B 00:46:51 -- 00:49:39
Discussion about cats and Christmas; cats, kittens, Christmas, presents, bananas.

SIDE B 00:49:39 -- 00:52:23
Discussion about her first teacher and quiet Sundays; teachers, school, Sadie Monkley, George Monkley, Birch Hill, Sundays, quiet Sundays, Presbyterians.

SIDE B 00:52:23 -- 00:59:01
Discussion about her family, with mention of her brother's drowning; Minnie Larkin, Henry Newcombe, religion, Anglican Church, shipwright, Yeo, 1840s, Mary Pring, carpenters, William Newcombe, Leigh Newcombe, drownings.

SIDE B 00:59:01 -- 01:00:58
Discussion about funerals and undertakers; Hubert Phillips, Roy Phillips, undertakers, funerals, wakes, Doug Ferguson, hearses.

SIDE B 01:00:58 --- 01:03:18
Discussion about blacksmiths, with a story about Johnny Dennis swearing in church; blacksmiths, Johnny Dennis.

Tape ends at 01:03:18.