Avila Rogers T1 [Tape One]

Interview

Thompson, Reg "Dutch"

Rogers (Mathieson), Avila

2001-01-17

01:35:00

This is an interview with Avila Rogers (nee Mathieson) of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Avila talks about movies and plays, growing up in Charlottetown, WWI and WWII, the Halifax Explosion, the Spanish Flu, life in the 1930s, her family and their involvement in politics, her family history, growing up on Water Street, schooners, cars, delivery men, and various other topics.

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Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson

SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:02:08 Discussion about movies and plays; movies, play, Uncle Tom's Cabin, theatre, Empire Theatre. | SIDE A 00:02:08 -- 00:08:23 Discussion about stores in Charlottetown; Charlottetown, stores, Black's China Shop, Holman's, dressmakers, milliners, Paton's, Prowse's, hats, millinery. | SIDE A 00:08:23 -- 00:26:55 Discussion about WWI and WWII; WWI, drill shed, Fanningbank, hospitals, Ruth Heartz, WWI soldiers, 105th Battalion, Red Cross parcels, war parcels, WWII, mustard gas, David Mathieson, Tom Rogers, Daniel MacDonald, RAF, airports. | SIDE A 00:26:55 -- 00:31:06 Discussion about the Halifax Explosion, with mention of Bedford Basin during WWII; Halifax Explosion, model school, WWII, convoys. | SIDE A 00:31:06 -- 00:33:11 Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, 1919. | SIDE A 00:33:11 -- 00:35:11 Discussion about the Great Depression; Great Depression, 1930s, hobos, Heartz. | SIDE A 00:35:11 -- 00:47:26 Discussion about her family and their involvement in politics; politics, Mary Leard, Liberals, David Leard, treaties, women's rights, John Alexander Mathieson, Hon. John Mathieson, voting, Sir John Thompson. | SIDE A ends at 00:47:26. SIDE B 00:47:32 -- 01:08:40 Discussion about her father and her family history, with mention of their involvement in politics; politics, Liberals, David Leard, newspapers, forerunners, judges, premiers, trains, 1917, Robert Borden, Borden, lawyers, cars, Ronald Mathieson, Dr. Charles Mathieson, teachers, wages, 1911, John Alexander Mathieson, Hon. John Mathieson, elections, 1912. | SIDE B 01:08:40 -- 01:13:25 Discussion about her mother's horses, growing up on Water Street, and the harbour; Charlottetown, Water Street, wharves, schooners, Charlottetown Harbour, Pauley's Lumber Yard, ice boats, bushed ice, jiggers. | SIDE B 01:13:25 -- 01:14:33 Discussion about cars and a story about falling off her bicycle; cars. | SIDE B 01:14:33 -- 01:17:20 Discussion about the US Counsel, German ships, and stories about WWI; 1913, German ships, WWI, Officer's Club, German sailors, German POWs, POWs. | SIDE B 01:17:20 -- 01:19:31 Discussion about the Butts and her siblings; Charlottetown, the Butts, David Mathieson, Helen Mathieson, Dora Mathieson. | SIDE B 01:19:31 -- 01:28:06 Discussion about growing up in Charlottetown continues, with mention of livestock in the city, rum runners, and ships; Charlottetown, rum runners, rum running, Captain Dicks, SS Harland, Harland, picnics, traveling. | SIDE B 01:28:06 -- 01:29:31 Discussion about the Hillsborough Bridge and trains; trains, Hillsborough Bridge, swing bridges. | SIDE B 01:29:31 -- 01:33:47 Discussion about delivery men and the circus; Drake, iceman, coal man, ice, ice cream, Hurdy Gurdy, monkeys, circus. | SIDE B 01:33:47 -- 01:35:00 Discussion about sleigh bells and house parties; house parties, sleigh bells, levees, box sleigh parties. | Tape ends at 01:35:00.