This is an interview with Mary Cecilia "Celia" McCloskey (nee MacEachern) of Bear River and Souris, P.E.I. In this interview Celia talks about her family, her father's service in WWI, shipwrecks, the Spanish Flu, doctors and home remedies, moving to Charlottetown, school, shopping, cars, pack peddlers, radio, dances, her husband and the McCloskey family, her work in New York City as a housekeeper, and various other topics.
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:04:02 Discussion about her grandparents, with mention of a shipwreck named the Olga; Annie Campbell, 1906, shipwrecks, Olga, Hughie MacEachern. | SIDE A 00:04:02 -- 00:09:52 Discussion about her father and his service and death in WWI; WWI, Andrew MacEachern, Red Cross parcels, telegrams, 1918, war letters. | SIDE A 00:09:52 -- 00:12:57 Discussion about her siblings and her grandparents; MacDonald, MacIntosh, teachers, Catherine MacEachern. | SIDE A 00:12:57 -- 00:14:02 Discussion about the end of WWI; WWI. | SIDE A 00:14:02 -- 00:15:50 Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, 1919. | SIDE A 00:15:50 -- 00:18:38 Discussion about doctors and midwives, with mention of A. J. MacCormack's operation; doctors, Dr. Sullivan, midwives, Mary MacDougall, Dr. Gus, operations, A. J. MacCormack, surgery. | SIDE A 00:18:38 -- 00:20:25 Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, goose grease, cod liver oil, salt herring. | SIDE A 00:20:25 -- 00:24:03 Discussion about her mother and moving to Charlottetown; Mary MacDonald, Campbell, 1921. | SIDE A 00:24:03 -- 00:27:08 Discussion about school; Dorothy Hennessey, school, convents, Dorothy Corrigan, St. Joseph's, nuns, school uniforms, Sydney Street, Charlottetown. | SIDE A 00:27:08 -- 00:28:56 Discussion about various topics including flour bag quilts and Bear River; quilts, flour bag clothes, clothing, Bear River. | SIDE A 00:28:56 -- 00:31:10 Discussion about school continues; school, school subjects, Gus MacEachern, reading. | SIDE A 00:31:10 -- 00:31:34 Discussion about Province House; Province House. | SIDE A ends at 00:31:34. SIDE B 00:31:47 -- 00:32:25 Discussion about Province House continues; Province House. | SIDE B 00:32:25 -- 00:37:17 Discussion about shopping at Moore and MacLeod's and Matthew and MacLean's; Moore and MacLeod's, Matthew and MacLean's, shopping, furs. | SIDE B 00:37:17 -- 00:38:40 Discussion about cars; cars, 1918. | SIDE B 00:38:40 -- 00:39:38 Discussion about Shelfoon the taxi man; Shelfoon, taxi man, Charlottetown, Lebanese. | SIDE B 00:39:38 -- 00:44:57 Discussion about pack peddlers and a story about Dan the Plasterer; pack peddlers, hobos, Dan the Plasterer. | SIDE B 00:44:57 -- 00:48:40 Discussion about radio and dances; radio, dances, radio programmes, Don Messer, fiddlers, Charlie Chamberlain, Joe Chiasson. | SIDE B 00:48:40 -- 00:52:50 Discussion about her husband and the McCloskey family, with mention of dogs and pets; McCloskey, Gerard McCloskey, Charlie McCloskey, German Sherpherds, dogs, Jimmy McCloskey, pets, Bear River, boxers. | SIDE B 00:52:50 -- 01:03:20 Discussion about moving to New York City and the families she worked for; New York, New York City, Jackie Bouvyer, wages, Park Avenue, John H. Davis, servants, wealthy families, housekeepers. | Tape ends at 01:03:20.
