Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2009-09-10
Date Digitized
2010-12-11
Abstract
This is an interview with Polly Gulak (nee Bezan). In this interview Polly talks about farming, growing up in Manitoba, her family, languages she speaks, Christmas, horses, chores as a child, home remedies, cooking, livestock, milking, homemade clothes and goods, cars, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:04:25
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:37
Discussion about growing up on a farm in Manitoba; Inglis, Manitoba, 1914, chores, milking.

SIDE A 00:02:37 -- 00:09:00
Discussion about her family, other immigrant families, and languages she speaks; immigrants, Ukrainian, church, languages, Romanian, Orthodox Church.

SIDE A 00:09:00 -- 00:12:02
Discussion about Christmas and Easter; Christmas, Easter.

SIDE A 00:12:02 -- 00:13:59
Discussion about school and her childhood; school, English, language.

SIDE A 00:13:59 -- 00:15:58
Discussion about horses; horses, gee and haw.

SIDE A 00:15:58 -- 00:21:32
Discussion about moving to PEI and her marriage; 1930, marriage, 1930s.

SIDE A 00:21:32 -- 00:22:35
Discussion about working as a child; child labour, chores.

SIDE A 00:22:35 -- 00:24:32
Discussion about Christmas continues; Christmas.

SIDE A 00:24:32 -- 00:25:05
Discussion about school continues; school.

SIDE A 00:25:05 -- 00:28:30
Discussion about family and life during the 1930s; midwives, 1930s, money, poverty, Great Depression.

SIDE A 00:28:30 -- 00:31:18
Discussion about farming; farming, wheat, crops, manure, horses, thrashing.

SIDE A 00:31:18 -- 00:32:06
Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu.

SIDE A ends at 00:32:06.
SIDE B 00:32:17 -- 00:33:30
Discussion about the Spanish Flu continues; Spanish Flu.

SIDE B 00:33:30 -- 00:34:10
Discussion about the family farm; farms.

SIDE B 00:34:10 -- 00:34:51
Discussion about entertainment; house parties, entertainment.

SIDE B 00:34:51 -- 00:39:06
Discussion about home remedies, with mention of home cooking; home remedies, cures, mustard plasters, vodka, Castor oil, cooking.

SIDE B 00:39:06 -- 00:44:20
Discussion about various topics including livestock, milking, and homemade goods; meat, turkey, ice houses, cottage cheese, cheese, turkey prices, butter, milk, milking, homemade soap, soap, firewood.

SIDE B 00:44:20 -- 00:48:02
Discussion about cows and stone boats; stone boats, stones, cows, cattle.

SIDE B 00:48:02 -- 00:51:09
Discussion about traveling to Winnipeg and home remedies; traveling, home remedies, cures, ulcers.

SIDE B 00:51:09 -- 00:53:21
Discussion about her mother's cooking and baking; cooking, baking, jam, berry picking, berries, Saskatoon berries.

SIDE B 00:53:21 -- 00:54:57
Discussion about eggs and bartering; eggs, tobacco, bartering, egg trading.

SIDE B 00:54:57 -- 00:56:21
Discussion about knitting and clothes; knitting, clothes, homemade clothes, flour bag clothes, makeovers.

SIDE B 00:56:21 -- 00:59:46
Discussion about hard work on the farm; hard work, 1930s, farming.

SIDE B 00:59:46 -- 01:00:21
Discussion about coyotes; coyotes.

SIDE B 01:00:21 -- 01:02:58
Discussion about the railway and horses; horses, railway, shipping, trains.

SIDE B 01:02:58 -- 01:04:25
Discussion about cars and trucks; cars, trucks, 1940.

Tape ends at 01:04:25.