Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2001-01-25
Date Digitized
2010-09-12
Abstract
This is an interview with Valerie Arsenault (nee Gallant) of Bloomfield, P.E.I. In this interview Valerie talks about her family, twist tobacco, home remedies, the Spanish Flu, tough times, Christmas, shopping, food, entertainment, peddlers, her friends, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:39:23
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:08 -- 00:01:50
Discussion about her father, with mention of a train crash; Jerome Gallant, teachers.

SIDE A 00:01:50 -- 00:03:12
Discussion about her birth in 1904; Dr. Kier, 1904, midwives, Maggie Gallant.

SIDE A 00:03:12 -- 00:05:56
Discussion with Eva Mahar about Hickey and Nicholson twist tobacco; Eva Mahar, Hickey and Nicholson, Pius Mahar, twist tobacco, chewing tobacco, spittoons, tobacco factory.

SIDE A 00:05:56 -- 00:08:08
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, plasters, onion plaster, salt herring, poultice.

SIDE A 00:08:08 -- 00:11:05
Discussion about the Halifax Explosion and the Spanish Flu; Halifax Explosion, Spanish Flu, bread poultice.

SIDE A 00:11:05 -- 00:13:10
Discussion about her family and tough times; Susan Gallant, Susan Peters, Jerome Gallant, 1930s, tough times.

SIDE A 00:13:10 -- 00:15:33
Discussion about Christmas, with mention of Acadian food; Christmas, Christmas dinner, fricot, Acadians, food, rapure, rabbit, rabbit stew.

SIDE A 00:15:33 -- 00:18:12
Discussion about the first car she saw and picnics; cars, ice cream, picnics.

SIDE A 00:18:12 -- 00:19:22
Discussion about Christmas continues; Christmas, Santa Claus.

SIDE A 00:19:22 -- 00:20:39
Discussion about horses and blacksmiths; horses, blacksmiths, Robert Gallant.

SIDE A 00:20:39 -- 00:23:11
Discussion about various topics including WWI, shopping, radio, and fiddlers; shopping, radio, fiddlers, Father Gallant, dances.

SIDE A 00:23:11 -- 00:25:13
Discussion about various topics including trains, shopping, and the Harvest Excursion; trains, train fare, molasses, Harvest Excursion, O'Leary, shopping.

SIDE A 00:25:13 -- 00:26:27
Discussion about various topics including Tignish Shore and card games; Tignish Shore, card games, Father Gaudet, Father Gallant, dances.

SIDE A 00:26:27 -- 00:29:05
Discussion about peddlers; peddlers, pack peddlers, Leo Arsenault, Lebanese.

SIDE A 00:29:05 -- 00:31:51
Discussion about seafood and school, with mention of working at the lobster factory; school, seafood, lobster, fish, walking, lobster factories, Tignish.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:51.
SIDE B 00:31:56 -- 00:33:35
A story about drunk hens; hens, drinking, moonshine, Rufus Gallant.

SIDE B 00:33:35 -- 00:38:36
Discussion about her friends and entertainment, with mention of her uncle King Goose Gallant; entertainment, Saint Anne de Beaupre, Mary Doucette, bingo, chicken raffles, raffles, King Goose Gallant.

SIDE B 00:38:36 -- 00:39:23
Dutch makes note of some background information on her story about making moonshine; moonshine, Rufus Gallant, Ralph Gallant.

***The remainder of the tape, 00:39:23 -- 01:03:49, is blank.
Tape ends at 01:03:49.