Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2007-01-21
Date Digitized
2010-12-18
Abstract
This is an interview with Ruth Herlihy (nee Campbell) of , PEI. In this interview Ruth talks about her family, home remedies, midwives and childbirth, life on the family farm, the railway, school and teaching, peddlers, The Brae, house parties and entertainment, radio, silver foxes, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:24:10
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:03:41
Discussion about her grandparents; Duncan Campbell, John D. MacLean, Mary MacLean, Margaret Ann MacLean, carpenters, Milo, caskets.

SIDE A 00:03:41 -- 00:05:08
Discussion about home remedies; Gordon Campbell, rheumatic fever, home remedies, salt herring.

SIDE A 00:05:08 -- 00:08:50
Discussion about midwives and her mother; midwives, Margaret Ann MacLean, childbirth, Hannah Rogerson, Milo.

SIDE A 00:08:50 -- 00:09:47
Discussion about doctors; doctors, O'Leary, Dr. MacEwan, Dr. Champion.

SIDE A 00:09:47 -- 00:12:03
Discussion about home remedies continues; home remedies, mustard plasters, pneumonia, sulfur and molasses, spring tonic, cod liver oil.

SIDE A 00:12:03 -- 00:14:24
Discussion about life on the family farm and local stores; chores, eggs, Jim MacKinnon, egg grading, Ivan MacLean, Rankin Wallace.

SIDE A 00:14:24 -- 00:16:50
Discussion about the railway and travel; railway, travel, Verna MacLean, station agents, traveling, O'Leary, The Brae.

SIDE A 00:16:50 -- 00:20:35
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, Christmas dinner, plum pudding, presents, 1914.

SIDE A 00:20:35 -- 00:24:48
Discussion about school; school, teachers, Milo, entrance exams, walking, deep snow.

SIDE A 00:24:48 -- 00:30:30
Discussion about going to Prince of Wales College; Prince of Wales College, boarding, school subjects, professors, Peggy Blanchard, Dr. Robertson.

SIDE A 00:30:30 -- 00:39:21
Discussion about teaching; teaching, teachers, Milo School, Knutsford, West Devon, Carleton, teacher's salary, teaching supplement, gender equality, corporal punishment, Christmas concerts, women's jobs, school inspectors.

SIDE A 00:39:21 -- 00:40:43
Discussion about various topics including WWI and the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu.

SIDE A 00:40:43 -- 00:43:40
Discussion about pack peddlers; pack peddlers, peddlers, Burdock Blood Bitters, Raleigh man, meat peddlers, fish peddlers.

SIDE A 00:43:40 -- 00:46:12
Discussion about fish; fish, cod, mackerel, trout, lobster, fertilizer, eels.

SIDE A 00:46:12 -- 00:46:50
Discussion about flour bag clothes; flour bag clothes, homemade clothes, dresses.

SIDE A 00:46:50 -- 00:47:32
Discussion about picking potatoes; picking potatoes.

SIDE A ends at 00:47:32.
SIDE B 00:47:41 -- 00:49:31
Discussion about picking potatoes continues, with mention of The Brae; picking potatoes, school vacation, The Brae.

SIDE B 00:49:31 -- 00:53:41
Discussion about various topics including the Eaton's catalogue, livestock, and soap; Eaton's catalogue, firewood, pigs, homemade soap, butter factory, O'Leary, pigs, lye.

SIDE B 00:53:41 -- 00:58:04
Discussion about various topics including the farm, winter, and foxes; neighbours, ice travel, silver foxes, foxes.

SIDE B 00:58:04 -- 00:59:40
Discussion about box socials; socials, box socials.

SIDE B 00:59:40 -- 01:03:00
Discussion about house parties; house parties, entertainment, fiddlers, Neil MacKinnon, liquor, parties, tobacco, smoking.

SIDE B 01:03:00 -- 01:04:42
Discussion about the radio; radio, WWII, CFCY, Stuart Dixon, Don Messer.

SIDE B 01:04:42 -- 01:05:34
Discussion about department stores; Holman's, Sinclair and Stewart, Eaton's, Summerside.

SIDE B 01:05:34 -- 01:09:45
Discussion about various topics including the mailman and church; mailman, Stanford Lockhart, mail, Gordon Campbell, Church of Scotland, Sundays, quiet Sundays, cards, card games.

SIDE B 01:09:45 -- 01:13:15
Discussion about white sand, family in Boston, and clothes; white sand, cleaning, Boston, makeovers, clothes.

SIDE B 01:13:15 -- 01:15:16
Discussion about wheat and Leard's mill; wheat, gristmills, Leard's mill, bread.

SIDE B 01:15:16 -- 01:16:06
Discussion about Sir Andrew MacPhail; Sir Andrew MacPhail.

SIDE B 01:16:06 -- 01:16:51
Discussion about cars and the Oultens in Brae; Angus MacLean, Gray Dart, Oulten, Brae, cars.

SIDE B 01:16:51 -- 01:18:55
Discussion about silver foxes; silver foxes, Russell Rogers, fox ranchers, The Brae.

SIDE B 01:18:55 -- 01:20:18
Discussion about various topics including her birthday and the biggest changes over the years; birthdays, paved roads, roads.

SIDE B 01:20:18 -- 01:21:56
Discussion about the last train and her mother's funeral; trains, funerals, Coleman.

SIDE B 01:21:56 -- 01:24:10
Discussion about various topics including blacksmiths and changes over the years; blacksmiths, Claude Jelley, O'Leary.

Tape ends at 01:24:10.