This is an interview with Charlie Scranton of Guysborough County, NS and Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Charlie talks about his family history, moving to PEI, commercial travelers and pack peddlers, horses and traveling on the ice, chickens, foxes, cars, tractors, farming, receiving the Order of Canada and other awards, his parents, religion, the Easter Seals, Camp Segunakadeck, and various other topics.
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:04:18 Discussion about his family history continues on from Tape Two; ancestors, Native Americans, American Indians, Bill Scranton, Capt. David Scranton, pirates, Cranton, Dutch, Cape Breton. | SIDE A 00:04:18 -- 00:09:30 Discussion about moving to PEI and working as the Watkins man; farming, hens, eggs, Watkins man, egg trading, Upton Farm, land, Islanders, John Boyle, Catholic, New Haven, Heber MacPhail, Watkins man, news. | SIDE A 00:09:30 -- 00:12:35 Discussion about commercial travelers and traveling by horse and sleigh; horses, horse and sleigh, traveling, Jim Montgomery, candy man, commercial travelers, smart horses. | SIDE A 00:12:35 -- 00:15:08 Discussion about horses and ice racing; horses, Grant Willis, horse races, ice racing. | SIDE A 00:15:08 -- 00:20:24 Discussion about capons and chickens; capons, chickens, poultry, Cecil Ellis, Tony Sakamoto, Alden MacDonald. | SIDE A 00:20:24 -- 00:22:00 Discussion about building his house; 1945, tractors, Sil Pippy, J. Walter Jones, Keith Mutch. | SIDE A 00:22:00 -- 00:25:15 Discussion about foxes; foxes, fox feed, fox ranching, Sandy Bruce. | SIDE A 00:25:15 -- 00:26:05 Discussion about cars; cars, Whippet. | SIDE A 00:26:05 -- 00:26:52 Discussion about the Market Square; trading, Market Square, horse trading, Wellington MacNeill. | SIDE A 00:26:52 -- 00:28:21 Discussion about tractors; tractors, Ed Wood. | SIDE A 00:28:21 -- 00:29:10 Discussion about potatoes; potatoes, Horace B. Willis, acreage, potato farming, 1941. | SIDE A ends at 00:29:10. SIDE B 00:29:21 -- 00:32:54 Discussion about receiving the Order of Canada and other awards; awards, Order of Canada, Doctor of Laws, Baptist Leadership Award. | SIDE B 00:32:54 -- 00:36:41 Discussion about his parents and the the family farm; Jane Crane, Jane Scranton, Fennie Scranton, hired man, Harold Hart, wages, hard work. | SIDE B 00:36:41 -- 00:38:36 Discussion about religion and Guysborough; religion, Catholic, Guysborough, Protestant, Birchtown, Thornhill, fiddler, Joe Izzard, African Canadians. | SIDE B 00:38:36 -- 00:39:21 Discussion about goose shoots; shooting, goose shoots. | SIDE B 00:39:21 -- 00:43:31 Discussion about traveling on the ice; bushed ice, traveling, ice travel, Lorne Kelly, horse racing, fast horses. | SIDE B 00:43:31 -- 00:44:56 Discussion about the traveling man; traveling man, horse breeding, stallions, John MacPherson. | SIDE B 00:44:56 -- 00:46:06 Discussion about pack peddlers; pack peddlers, Watkins man. | SIDE B 00:46:06 -- 00:48:12 Discussion about life on PEI, church, and his wife; PEI, church, Baptist, Hazelbrook, Helen Scranton. | SIDE B 00:48:12 -- 00:50:11 Discussion about the Easter Seals campaign; Easter Seals, charity. | SIDE B 00:50:11 -- 00:57:20 Discussion about Camp Segunakadeck; Camp Segunakadeck, Camp Seggy, Scranton Chapel, Helen Scranton. | Tape ends at 00:57:20.
