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Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2001-01-17
Date Digitized
2010-08-31
Abstract
This is an interview with Avila Rogers (nee Mathieson) of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Avila talks about courting, house parties, her father's work, a visit from Prince Edward, ice cream parlours, businesses in Charlottetown, Minnie McGee, home remedies, Christmas, school, Prince of Wales College, her siblings, the family history, Market Square, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:38
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:02 -- 00:02:12
Discussion about courting and parties; courting, picnics, dances, Helen Mathieson.

SIDE A 00:02:12 -- 00:07:01
Discussion about her father's work as Chief Justice and a visit from Prince Edward; Prince Edward, Chief Justice, John Alexander Mathieson, Hon. John Mathieson, Prince of Wales.

SIDE A 00:07:01 -- 00:10:27
Discussion about courting and parties continues; house parties, parties, dances, dancing, Rudy Valli, movies, gramophones.

SIDE A 00:10:27 -- 00:11:19
Discussion about the milkman; milkman.

SIDE A 00:11:19 -- 00:22:14
Discussion about Foster's Ice Cream Parlour, dance halls, and other places around Charlottetown; dance halls, dances, Foster's Ice Cream, ice cream, Carter's Ice Cream, Babs Fitzgerald, Rowan Fitzgerald, White's Restaurant, Charlottetown, Chinese restaurants, marijuana, Thomas White, Chinese laundry, John Ling Laundry, John Ling, Dr. Ralph, livery stables, Dundass Terrace, Water Street.

SIDE A 00:22:14 -- 00:29:29
Discussion about Minnie McGee; Minnie McGee, Minnie Magee, 1914, Attorney General, murders, poetry, Falconwood, poorhouse, hangman.

SIDE A 00:29:29 -- 00:31:42
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, mustard plasters, cod liver oil.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:42.
SIDE B 00:31:53 -- 00:33:00
Discussion about home remedies continues; home remedies, cod liver oil.

SIDE B 00:33:00 -- 00:39:44
Discussion about Christmas; presents, toys, books, dolls, carrier pigeons, pets, Christmas dinner, plays.

SIDE B 00:39:44 -- 00:41:06
Discussion about her brother and her husband; David Leard Mathieson, Tom Rogers, Louise MacKinnon.

SIDE B 00:41:06 -- 00:48:35
Discussion about school and Prince of Wales College; model school, Prince of Wales College, school, West Kent School, teachers, Canon Simpson.

SIDE B 00:48:35 -- 00:50:03
Discussion about nursing in Montreal and polio; polio, Montreal, nursing.

SIDE B 00:50:03 -- 00:55:48
Discussion about her family history; Mathieson, Thomas Owen, William Owen, Cambridge.

SIDE B 00:55:48 -- 00:56:40
Discussion about reading; reading, books.

SIDE B 00:56:40 -- 01:03:38
Discussion about Market Square; Market Square, Charlottetown, rats, dancing lesson, Ralph Cameron, dancing, silent movies, butchers, concerts, Hilda Burns, piano players, dance halls, Dixon's Dance Hall.

Tape ends at 01:03:38.