Harold Ross T1 [Tape One]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Ross, Harold
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2004-04-20
Date Digitized
2010-12-22
Abstract
This is an interview with Harold Ross of Bideford, PEI. In this interview Harold talks about his father, digging wells, his father's lumber mill, Christmas, fishing, fox ranching, racetracks, snow, building the Western Road, taking down the RCAF base in Mt. Pleasant, his service in the Medical Corps during WWII, and various other topics.
Genre
Interview
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:45
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:00:35
Discussion about his father; Alexander Ross, Alexander Manuel Ross.

SIDE A 00:00:35 -- 00:06:20
Discussion about digging wells; wells, well digging, well drilling, Alexander Ross, wages, boring wells.

SIDE A 00:06:20 -- 00:12:37
Discussion about his father's lumber mill; mills, lumber mills, paling, juniper, lumber, lobster traps, lathes.

SIDE A 00:12:37 -- 00:14:42
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, presents, Santa Claus, candy.

SIDE A 00:14:42 -- 00:16:44
Discussion about his father's truck and his siblings; big families.

SIDE A 00:16:44 -- 00:18:38
Discussion about moving their house over the ice; Bideford, 1925, house moving.

SIDE A 00:18:38 -- 00:20:34
Discussion about the mill continues; mills, lumber mills, steam box.

***The audio drops and is barely audible from 00:22:14 -- 00:26:53.
SIDE A 00:20:34 -- 00:27:26
Discussion about fishing and working at fisheries, with mention of mills; fishing, trout, mills, England's mill, Pit Mill.

SIDE A 00:27:26 -- 00:28:22
Discussion about trapping minks; minks, trapping.

SIDE A 00:28:22 -- 00:28:56
Discussion about lathes; lathes.

SIDE A 00:28:56 -- 00:31:45
Discussion about his first job and fox ranching; Depression, 1930s, Great Depression, mustard, wages, Tuplins, poverty.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:45.
***The audio drops at the beginning of SIDE B from 00:31:56 -- 00:33:21.
SIDE B 00:31:56 -- 00:33:59
Discussion about using flashlights for truck lights; flashlights, driving.

SIDE B 00:33:59 -- 00:36:11
Discussion about the racetracks and fox ranching; racetracks, Bideford, Milligan and Morrison, moonshine, horse races, fox ranching, fox ranchers.

SIDE B 00:36:11 -- 00:38:14
Discussion about how the school was also a dance hall and later became his father's mill; school, Bideford School, dance halls, mills.

SIDE B 00:38:14 -- 00:42:51
Discussion about deep snow, with mention of hockey; snow, deep snow, shoveling snow, Dr. Stewart, snowplows, hockey.

SIDE B 00:42:51 -- 00:44:50
Discussion about working to build the Western Road; Western Road, roads, roadmaster, wages, 1939.

SIDE B 00:44:50 -- 00:48:20
Discussion about the RCAF base in Mt. Pleasant and the Ellerslie Legion; Mt. Pleasant, RCAF, airbase, airport, 1946, Ellerslie Legion.

SIDE B 00:48:20 -- 01:03:45
Discussion about his service in WWII in the Medical Corps; 1939, PEI Lighthorse Infantry, Don Messer, U-Boats, submarines, 1940, Medical Corps, Aldershot, German subs, convoys, Isle de France, Hazelmere Hospital, blackouts, air raids, Red Cross, D-Day, war casualties.

Tape ends at 01:03:45.