SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:08:03
Big snowstorms, his ancestors, his house being moved in 1825, bears, and his family; seacows, bears, 1825, snowstorms, snow.
SIDE A 00:08:03 -- 00:13:46
His father the blacksmith, being related to the Marks and the Tuplins, tall ships that came into Margate, the family farm, and local mills; mills, Margate, tall ships, ships, Tuplin, Marks, blacksmiths, horseshoeing.
SIDE A 00:13:46 -- 00:19:00
His father sailing with Peter McNutt, McNutt's business, the family farm and his father being trapped on the ice; Peter McNutt, sailing.
SIDE A 00:19:00 -- 00:22:35
The lobster factory on the shore that moved to Darnley, his father fishing mackerel, foxes and his uncles ranch; Darnley, lobster factories, fishing, mackerel, foxes, fox ranching, fox feed.
SIDE A 00:22:35 -- 00:26:53
His birth, Dr. Kier, The Halifax Explosion, the end of WWI, and the neighbors buying a car; Dr. Kier, 1911, Halifax Explosion, WWI, cars.
SIDE A 00:26:53 -- 00:31:40
The Spanish Flu, courting, his wife Edith, getting married in 1946, home remedies and pack peddlers; pack peddlers, home remedies, 1946, marriage, courting, Spanish Flu.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:40.
SIDE B 00:31:47 -- 00:37:40
An old French graveyard at his cousin's place, a few ghost stories, and the phantom ship; phantom ship, ghost stories, graveyards.
SIDE B 00:37:40 -- 00:43:15
Courting and how he and his wife Edith met, WWII and the letters they sent each other, coming home after the war, and their honeymoon in Charlottetown; honeymoons, WWII, war letters, courting.
SIDE B 00:43:15 -- 00:51:02
Jim Tuplin, foxes, cars, and getting rides in the McKay's car in 1918; 1918, Jim Tuplin, foxes, cars.
SIDE B 00:51:02 -- 00:59:45
How he joined the Merchant Marines, London in 1940, different ports of call, and bombing runs; blitzes, bombing, WWII, Merchant Marines, 1940, London.
SIDE B 00:59:45 -- 01:03:15
The sinking of his ship in the Belle Island Straight and the SS Trongate; WWII, SS Trongate, sunken ships, Halifax.
Tape ends at 01:03:15.
