Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1997-09-08
Date Digitized
2010-08-09
Abstract
This is an interview with Christy Isabelle Johnston of Long River and Kensington, P.E.I. In this interview Christy talks about school, home remedies, her brother, her parents, WWI, chores on the farm, horses, traveling, food, stores, mills, transportation, doctors, Sundays, her grandparents, funerals, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:39
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***The audio is very distorted from 00:00:04 -- 00:03:12. It appears to be a discussion about her parents.
SIDE A 00:03:12 -- 00:07:00
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, tansy, salt herring, goose grease, cod liver oil, sulfur and molasses, tansy tea, fever, cures, turpentine.

SIDE A 00:07:00 -- 00:08:37
Discussion about school; school, teachers, Edwin Johnston.

SIDE A 00:08:37 -- 00:12:46
Discussion about her brother James Andrew Johnston; James Andrew Johnston, James Johnston, blacksmiths, horseshoeing, drowning, 1919, Channel Point, swimming, Elwood Campbell, blacksmith patterns.

SIDE A 00:12:46 -- 00:13:50
Discussion about James Montgomery; James Montgomery.

SIDE A 00:13:50 -- 00:15:16
Discussion about WWI; WWI, Armistice Day, Leslie MacLeod.

SIDE A 00:15:16 -- 00:18:56
Discussion about going to Summerside, butter, cream, and eggs; Summerside, coal, traveling, butter, creameries, eggs, egg circles, firkins, milking, chores, hay, coils of hay, Robert MacLeod.

SIDE A 00:18:56 -- 00:20:53
Discussion about the post office in Long River and her father's blacksmith shop; blacksmiths, forges, post office, Long River, Barbara Gillespie, horseshoe prices, horseshoeing.

SIDE A 00:20:53 -- 00:27:03
Discussion about various topics including her mother's bread, her father, traveling, and food; Warren's mill, Burlington, Bert Warren, mills, gristmills, bread, horse and sleigh, traveling, sleigh bells, mussel mud, bushing the ice, bushed ice, turpentine, cures, horse liniments, liniments, caraway, pork, pigs.

SIDE A 00:27:03 -- 00:29:17
Discussion about doctors and illnesses; doctors, illnesses, Dr. Simpson, Louisa Johnston, midwives, pneumonia.

SIDE A 00:29:17 -- 00:31:44
Discussion about various topics including fish, the Jollimores, the 1930s, and pack peddlers; Jollimore, 1930s, fishermen, 1930s, pack peddlers, peddlers, Manuel Arsenault, Long River.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:44.
SIDE B 00:31:50 -- 00:33:26
Discussion about cars, tractors, and changes over the years; cars, Jack Campbell, Will Johnston, tractors, radios, electricity, 1940s.

SIDE B 00:33:26 -- 00:36:21
Discussion about her parents and Christmas; Christmas, presents.

SIDE B 00:36:21 -- 00:41:27
Discussion about various topics including egg circles, Christmas concerts, and traveling; egg circles, eggs, concerts, plays, Christmas concerts, neighbours, traveling, Edmund Bernard, Bob MacLeod.

SIDE B 00:41:27 -- 00:43:24
Discussion about quiet Sundays and church; Sundays, quiet Sundays, church, religion, South Granville Church, 1961.

SIDE B 00:43:24 -- 00:49:00
Discussion about her father's horses, with mention of fences and Emily of New Moon; William Toombs, horses, horse races, horse breeding, blood horses, horse breeds, Emily of New Moon.

SIDE B 00:49:00 -- 00:51:24
Discussion about her grandparents and families in Long River; bears, Isabelle Thompson, Long River.

SIDE B 00:51:24 -- 00:55:14
Discussion about the carding mill in Long River, with mention of clothing; wool, carding mills, Long River, mills, Everett Paynter, Mildred Paynter, drugget, clothing.

SIDE B 00:55:14 -- 00:57:28
Discussion about undertakers and funerals; Archie MacLeod, funerals, undertakers.

SIDE B 00:57:28 -- 00:58:35
Discussion about traveling; traveling.

***The remainder of the tape, 00:58:35 -- 01:03:39, is blank.
Tape ends at 01:03:39.