Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2002-02-25
Date Digitized
2010-08-24
Abstract
This is an interview with Harry Mellish of New Glasgow, P.E.I. In this interview Harry talks about ice, milk, his grandparents, his cousin Billy Moar, his father, blacksmiths, cars and driving, roads, farming, Cavendish, his carpentry work, his mother, doctors, home remedies, his service in the air force during WWII, airplanes, radios, blacksmiths, the Harvest Excursion, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:56
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:02:47
Discussion about the ice on Pond Street; ice, Drake, skating, 1940s.

SIDE A 00:02:47-- 00:03:48
Discussion about milk delivery; milk prices, milk delivery, milkman, milk.

SIDE A 00:03:48 -- 00:04:42
Discussion about his grandparents; Moar, Annie Ethel Moar.

SIDE A 00:04:42 -- 00:13:21
Discussion about his cousin Billy Moar; Billy Moar, William Moar, twist tobacco, blacksmiths, mussel mud, windmills, tractors, airplanes, mechanics, Junior Jones, 1930s.

SIDE A 00:13:21 -- 00:18:01
Discussion about his father and his work, with mention of cars; thrashing, Hall thrasher, Robert Campbell Mellish, 1930s, bartering, turnip prices, beef prices, egg prices, potatoes, shipping, cars, Whippet.

SIDE A 00:18:01 -- 00:21:01
Discussion about his grandparents and their mixed farm; Robert Lewis Mellish, Margaret Campbell, Margaret Campbell Mellish, mixed farms.

SIDE A 00:21:01 -- 00:22:05
Discussion about lime kilns and mussel mud; lime kilns, mussel mud, Billy Moar.

SIDE A 00:22:05 -- 00:23:08
Discussion about cutting ice; ice, cutting ice.

SIDE A 00:23:08 -- 00:27:50
Discussion about his carpentry work; carpentry, sawing, wages, lumber, moving buildings, Sam Martin, Kier Clark.

SIDE A 00:27:50 -- 00:31:04
Discussion about doctors; doctors, Dr. Grant, Dr. MacIntyre, doctor fees, Dr. Thomas Grant, Dr. Preston MacIntyre, Dr. Norbert Grant, 1950s.

SIDE A 00:31:04 -- 00:32:00
Discussion about Dr. Gus and religion; Dr. Gus, religion, religious feuds.

SIDE A ends at 00:32:00.
SIDE B 00:32:04 -- 00:33:04
Discussion about Dr. Gus and religion continues; Dr. Gus, religion, religious feuds.

SIDE B 00:33:04 -- 00:34:43
Discussion about his mother; Annie Ethel Moar, housework, washing, butter.

SIDE B 00:34:43 -- 00:35:30
Discussion about his brother Reg; Reg Mellish.

SIDE B 00:35:30 -- 00:36:39
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, sulfur and molasses, buttermilk, cream of tartar.

SIDE B 00:36:39 -- 00:40:03
Discussion about chores on the farm and driving; chores, horses, driving, roads, clay roads, cars, paved roads.

SIDE B 00:40:03 -- 00:49:40
Discussion about working as a wireless mechanic on airplanes during WWII; planes, WWII, RCAF, wireless mechanic, air force, Mt. Pleasant, Bolingbroke planes, Raymond MacDonald, radios.

SIDE B 00:49:40 -- 00:52:56
Discussion about his first radio; radios, Betty Rogers, radio batteries, Stuart Dickson, CFCY, Sleepy Town Express, radio programs.

SIDE B 00:52:56 -- 00:53:40
Discussion about homemade clothes; flour bag clothes, homemade clothes, Annie Mellish.

SIDE B 00:53:40 -- 00:55:19
Discussion about the Hindenburg and Italian spies in Victoria; spies, Hindenburg.

SIDE B 00:55:19 -- 00:56:04
Discussion about the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion.

SIDE B 00:56:04 -- 00:58:27
Discussion about Katie Wyand pioneering Cavendish; Katie Wyand, 1926, Cavendish.

SIDE B 00:58:27 -- 01:02:55
Discussion about blacksmiths and work Billy Moar and his father did; Billy Moar, Henry MacKenzie, MacKenzie diggers, potato diggers, Robert Mellish, custom thrashing, potato digging, blacksmiths.

SIDE B 01:02:55 -- 01:03:56
Discussion about his father going on the Harvest Excursion; Harvest Excursion, Robert Mellish, deep snow, 1901.

Tape ends at 01:03:56.