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Contributors
Interviewee: MacDougall, Everett
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2007-01
Date Digitized
2011-01-14
Abstract
This is an interview with Everett MacDougall of Glenwood and Vernon Bridge, PEI. In this interview Everett talks about blacksmiths, his father and grandfather, his father's store, horses, dating, cars, rum running, Glenwood and O'Leary, businesses, traveling salesmen, mussel mud, egg grading, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:04:03
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:04:11
Discussion about his father's work as a blacksmith and his business; blacksmiths, Jim MacDougall, Ed MacDougall, grocery stores, fires, molasses, Wilkinson's store.

SIDE A 00:04:11 -- 00:09:18
Discussion about Western horses and Wellington MacNeill; Western horses, blacksmiths, Ed MacDougall, Wellington MacNeill, horses, horseshoeing, horse trading.

SIDE A 00:09:18 -- 00:11:54
Discussion about his family; Jim MacDougall, Stan Dunville, Lena Dunville, Lena MacDougall, Ben Dunville, cars.

SIDE A 00:11:54 -- 00:13:12
Discussion about dating; dating, courting, entertainment, movies, silent movies, ice cream parlours, Pate's.

SIDE A 00:13:12 -- 00:16:13
Discussion about cars and learning to drive; cars, driving, Model-T Ford, 1926, trucks, driver's licence, Jack Pate, bribes.

SIDE A 00:16:13 -- 00:21:00
Discussion about rum running, bootlegging, and house parties; rum running, prohibition, bootlegging, Brae, Sharbelle, house parties, homemade beer, beer, parties.

SIDE A 00:21:00 -- 00:24:57
Discussion about growing up in Glenwood; hockey, skating, ice travel, rinks, Eaton's catalogue, horse and sleigh, hockey teams, skates, church.

SIDE A 00:24:57 -- 00:28:55
Discussion about his father's store and goods he sold; Glenwood, general stores, bulk goods, flour, tobacco, chewing tobacco, Hickey and Nicholson, tea, figs of tobacco, twist tobacco.

SIDE A 00:28:55 -- 00:31:56
Discussion about traveling salesmen; traveling salesmen, Jim Montgomery, candy, salesmen, hotels, O'Leary.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:56.
SIDE B 00:32:06 -- 00:36:08
Discussion about stores and businesses in O'Leary; O'Leary, Kennedy's store, hotels, 1930s, wages, Turner's store, Pate's store, boarding houses, room rates, train, Saturday night.

SIDE B 00:36:08 -- 00:41:40
Discussion about mussel mud, with mention of plowing and harrowing; mussel mud, harrowing, plowing, gang plows, fertilizer, capstain.

SIDE B 00:41:40 -- 00:42:53
Discussion about horses; horses, Ed MacDougall, horse trading, John MacDougall.

SIDE B 00:42:53 -- 00:44:30
Discussion about horse races; horse races, horses, ice racing, Glenwood, horseshoes, Joe O'Brien, racetrack, fast horses.

SIDE B 00:44:30 -- 00:56:33
Discussion about his father's store and Everett's work in egg grading; Ed MacDougall, bartering, Coleman, eggs, egg grading, egg trading, egg grading station, Brad MacKay, Albert Noonan, Dillon and Spillet, Vernon, butter, Federal Dairy, 1934, wages, boarding, gas prices, cars, general stores.

SIDE B 00:56:33 -- 00:58:20
Discussion about Kennedy's store in O'Leary; Murdoch Kennedy, Kennedy's store, O'Leary, Forbie Kennedy, Ray Kennedy, fires.

SIDE B 00:58:20 -- 01:03:50
Discussion about egg grading and the feed mill in Vernon; feed mill, Vernon, 1938, fires, Federal Creamery, creamery, egg grading, eggs, hens.

SIDE B 01:03:50 -- 01:04:03
Discussion about shipping potatoes and turnips; shipping.

Tape ends at 01:04:03.