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Contributors
Interviewee: Waugh, Audrey
Interviewee: Waugh, Elmer
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2003-11-28
Date Digitized
2010-05-31
Abstract
This is the second half of an interview with Elmer Waugh of f Wilmot Valley and Summerside, P.E.I. It includes his wife Audrey Waugh (nee Simmons). This interview begins with Audrey telling about her relation to King George III and Queen Elizabeth. She also talks about how she and Elmer met. Then Elmer tells about farming, potatoes, cars, his family, his brother Harry's service in WWII, ghosts, home remedies, and horses. He also talks about school, Stanley Stavert, hockey, electricity, the 1956 ice storm, and traveling.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:36
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:03:50
Discussion about how Audrey is related to George III through the Rayners on P.E.I.; Rayner, George III, Hannah Rayner, James Simmons, genealogy, Loring Rayner, Delbert Rayner.

SIDE A 00:03:50 -- 00:09:55
Discussion about Audrey's relation to Queen Elizabeth and how Audrey and Elmer met; Queen Elizabeth, courting, Florida, wedding, honeymoon.

SIDE A 00:09:55 -- 00:11:32
Discussion about black oats and ice travel; ice travel, black oats, Condon, blacksmith.

SIDE A 00:11:32 -- 00:14:39
Discussion about selling and shipping their produce, with mention of railroads and potato buyers; railroad, potatoes, potato buyers, schooners, Holman's, Les Simmons, Lorne MacFarlane.

SIDE A 00:14:39 -- 00:17:09
Discussion about his father's first car, with mention of Elmer getting his licence and his grandfather's car; 1928, Chevrolet, 1927, Model-T Ford, driver's licence, Colin Schurman.

SIDE A 00:17:09 -- 00:18:05
Brief discussion about his grandparents; Schurman, Waugh, home remedies.

SIDE A 00:18:05 -- 00:20:16
A story about his father making a seat in the wagon for Elmer, with mention of traveling to church and horse sheds; wagons, horse shed, church, Schurman.

SIDE A 00:20:16 -- 00:25:21
Discussion about his brother Harry, with stories of Harry's service during WWII and mention of farming with his brothers Harry and Colin; WWII, Harry Waugh, Colin Waugh, farming, RCAF.

SIDE A 00:25:21 -- 00:26:34
Discussion about ghosts and the phantom ship; ghosts, phantom ship, cemetery, forerunners.

SIDE A 00:26:34 -- 00:31:43
Discussion about home remedies, with mention of scarlet fever; cod liver oil, mustard plaster, scarlet fever, sulfur and molasses, Dr. John MacNeil, penicillin, Beth Hogg.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:43.
SIDE B 00:31:53 -- 00:34:57
Discussion about home remedies continues, with mention of giving cod liver oil and molasses to livestock; scarlet fever, salt herring, cod liver oil, molasses, horses, Scott's emulsion, tansy.

SIDE B 00:34:57 -- 00:38:03
Discussion about the biggest changes in farming, with mention of having the first baler in the area and horsepower; baler, hay, potato farming, haymaking, acreage, horsepower, thrashing.

SIDE B 00:38:03 -- 00:40:41
Discussion about horses, peddling, the ban on cars during certain times, and the change to right hand driving; horses, car bans, 1920s, right hand driving.

SIDE B 00:40:41 -- 00:42:02
Discussion about daylight saving time; daylight saving time.

SIDE B 00:42:02 -- 00:43:11
Discussion about going to school Wilmot Valley; school, Wilmot Valley, walking.

SIDE B 00:43:11 -- 00:43:54
Discussion about the first car he remembers; Model-T Ford, Chevrolet, cars, Whippet.

SIDE B 00:43:54 -- 00:46:12
Discussion about Stanley Stavert, with stories about Stanley and his family; Stanley Stavert, Charlottetown, restaurant, lunch.

SIDE B 00:46:12 -- 00:48:49
Discussion about his mother's cooking and berry picking; raisin puff, cooking, berry picking, berries, white sand, homemade soap.

SIDE B 00:48:49 -- 00:52:54
Discussion about Mary McCall and hockey teams, with mention of the Freetown Royals playing against Summerside Crystals; Freetown Royals, hockey, Mary McCall, Summerside Crystals, hockey rivals, Wendell Taylor, Charlottetown Abbies, train.

SIDE B 00:52:54 -- 00:53:54
Discussion about the Hindenburg and the Flying Farmer; Hindenburg, Flying Farmer, Junior Jones, airplanes, Elton Woodside.

SIDE B 00:53:54 -- 00:59:59
Discussion about electricity and the 1956 ice storm, with stories about volunteering labour to get the power going; 1949, electricity, Summerside, Red Bridge, 1956, ice storm.

SIDE B 00:59:59 -- 01:01:05
A story about putting naphtha gas in a kerosene lamp by mistake; kerosene lamps, naphtha gas.

SIDE B 01:01:05 -- 01:03:36
Discussion about dealing with change and learning a lot about life through traveling, with stories about going to Amherst and Toronto; 1926, Amherst, Toronto, traveling, 4-H Club, Royal Winter Fair, Amherst Winter Fair, cattle judging.

Tape ends at 01:03:36.
***Tape ends mid-sentence.