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Contributors
Interviewee: Bell, Ruth Clements
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-10-29
Abstract
This is an interview with Ruth (nee Clements) Bell of Montague, P.E.I. In this interview Ruth talks about Western horses, her family, electricity, Maritime Electric, school, doctors, home remedies, snow, Montague, traveling in the winter, Charlottetown, WWII, business college, her husband Jack and his family, farming, planes, trains, and traveling to England.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:04:13
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:01:54
Discussion about Western horses; Pope Thorne, Western horses, Ed MacGuigan.

SIDE A 00:01:54 -- 00:04:52
Discussion about her parents; Ruth Stewart, Kensington, Robert Clements, R. K. Clements, electrician, electricity.

SIDE A 00:04:52 -- 00:09:25
Discussion about growing up with electricity and her father's work as an electrician; electricity, power, appliances, electrician, Robert Clements, Maritime Electric, Montague, Knox.

SIDE A 00:09:25 -- 00:15:38
Discussion about school, doctors, and her birth; school, school grades, Dr. Grant, Dr. MacIntyre, doctors, surgeon, Dr. Pres MacIntyre, midwives.

SIDE A 00:15:38-- 00:18:28
Discussion about the Knox dam and a dam in Valleyfield; power plant, mill, Finley, Knox, Valleyfield.

SIDE A 00:18:28 -- 00:19:46
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, bread poultice, Epsom salts, cod liver oil.

SIDE A 00:19:46 -- 00:23:22
Discussion about school continues, with mention of deep snow; Minnie MacDonald, teachers, school, school subjects, deep snow, walking.

SIDE A 00:23:22 -- 00:24:36
Discussion about her mother; seamstress, milliners, hats, Ruth Stewart, Kensington.

SIDE A 00:24:36 -- 00:26:58
Discussion about the Spanish Flu and Charlie Stewart; Spanish Flu, polio, Charlie Stewart.

SIDE A 00:26:58 -- 00:32:03
Discussion about growing up in Montague, with mention of ice travel and the family home; Poole and Thompson, fires, 1929, Montague, ice travel.

SIDE A ends at 00:32:03.
SIDE B 00:32:11 -- 00:35:42
Discussion about their family home in Montague continues, with mention of school; indoor plumbing, electricity, mail, post office, French, school.

SIDE B 00:35:42 -- 00:42:52
Discussion about going to business school and working at Maritime Electric, with mention of entertainment; Union Commercial, business school, Maritime Electric, telephone boards, telephones, WWII, wages, room and board, Charlottetown, entertainment, movie house, Market Square, skating.

SIDE B 00:42:52 -- 00:45:06
Discussion about how she met her husband Jack and their dairy farm; Jack Bell, dairy farm, farming, chores, farm work, Gates.

SIDE B 00:45:06 -- 00:47:47
Discussion about the Gates' and their mill; Lloyd Gates, Gates' mill, mills.

SIDE B 00:47:47 -- 00:51:43
Discussion about her husband Jack's family; Falconwood farm, Bell, Bell's Hill, Francis Bell, John Bell, 1842, Falconwood.

SIDE B 00:51:43 -- 00:55:07
Discussion about their dairy farm continues; milk, dairy farm, horse and sleigh, horses, sleigh bells.

SIDE B 00:55:07 -- 00:57:14
Discussion about Charlottetown during WWII; WWII, RAF, Charlottetown.

SIDE B 00:57:14 -- 00:58:35
Discussion about the Upton airport; Upton airport, planes, Jenkins, airplanes.

SIDE B 00:58:35 -- 01:01:17
Discussion about Yeo's movie house; movie house, Bruce Yeo, Montague, movies.

SIDE B 01:01:17 -- 01:04:13
Discussion about taking the train for the first time and going to England; trains, England.

Tape ends at 01:04:13.