SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:03:30
Discussion about her grandparents, with mention of sewing; Ezebious Gallant, Singer sewing machine, sewing machines, sewing, flour bag clothes, pillowcases.
SIDE A 00:03:30 -- 00:04:54
Discussion about her parents and her grandfather Theopolis Gallant; Mary Gallant, Theopolis Gallant, Joe Toff Gallant, Rustico.
SIDE A 00:04:54 -- 00:07:21
Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, 1918, crib death, Paul Gallant.
SIDE A 00:07:21 -- 00:08:35
Discussion about midwives; midwives.
SIDE A 00:08:35 -- 00:11:03
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, sulfur and molasses, mustard plasters, pneumonia, cures, bronchitis.
SIDE A 00:11:03 -- 00:14:07
Discussion about doctors; doctors, Dr. Roddie, Dr. Roddie MacDonald, Dr. Gus, Dr. John Bonnell.
SIDE A 00:14:07 -- 00:16:19
Discussion about trains, St. Charles Station, and stores; trains, St. Charles, St. Charles Station, traveling, stores, Leo Doiron.
SIDE A 00:16:19 -- 00:18:13
Discussion about Matthew and MacLean's and selling butter there; Matthew and MacLean's, butter, stores, Souris.
SIDE A 00:18:13 -- 00:19:57
Discussion about the 1930s; Depression, 1930s, Great Depression, poverty, cards, visiting.
SIDE A 00:19:57 -- 00:23:06
Discussion about school; school, St. Charles School, French, teachers.
SIDE A 00:23:06 -- 00:28:44
Discussion about going to work after grade 6 and working as a housekeeper; housework, housekeeping, wages, Harold Hynes, French, baking.
SIDE A 00:28:44 -- 00:31:31
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, Christmas dinner, plum pudding, Christmas trees, presents, dolls, Santa Claus, homemade toys.
SIDE A 00:31:31 -- 00:32:01
Discussion about food; Freco, boiled dinner, Acadians.
SIDE A ends at 00:32:01.
SIDE B 00:32:08 -- 00:35:28
Discussion about food continues, with mention of home remedies; pork, salt pork, salt fish, mutton, salt herring, home remedies.
SIDE B 00:35:28 -- 00:37:36
Discussion about wool and homemade clothes; wool, weaving, woolen, clothes.
SIDE B 00:37:36 -- 00:39:31
Discussion about various topics including school, games, and picnics; school, games, picnics, entertainment.
SIDE B 00:39:31 -- 00:41:29
Discussion about picking berries; strawberries, berry picking, berries, berry prices, blueberries.
SIDE B 00:41:29 -- 00:45:46
Discussion about horses, sleighs, and breaking roads in the snow; horses, sleighs, snow, breaking roads, deep snow, shoveling.
SIDE B 00:45:46 -- 00:47:48
Discussion about house parties and entertainment; house parties, entertainment, fiddlers, Clayofis Whitty, card games, cards, raffles, chicken raffles, duck raffles.
SIDE B 00:47:48 -- 00:50:50
Discussion about working as a housekeeper in Charlottetown; housekeepers, Charlottetown, wages, Slocumb.
SIDE B 00:50:50 -- 00:53:34
Discussion about homemade soap; soap, homemade soap, lye.
SIDE B 00:53:34 -- 00:55:05
Discussion about homemade clothes; clothes, makeovers, homemade clothes.
SIDE B 00:55:05 -- 00:57:14
Discussion about how she met her husband; Alphonses Whitty, courting, WWII, 1941.
SIDE B 00:57:14 -- 01:04:00
Discussion about working as a housekeeper in Saint John and cooking at a lobster factory in Naufrage; Saint John, housekeepers, cooking, lobster factories, 1930s, Naufrage, cookhouses.
Tape ends at 01:04:00.
