Frank Whelan T2 [Tape Two]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Whelan, Frank
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1995-03-09
Date Digitized
2010-04-03
Abstract
This interview with Frank Whelan begins with Frank telling about trading groceries for lumber, his ice house, and coffins making. He then tells of rum running and bootlegging, his store, and his job as the local mailman. He tells more about his general store, working as a cooper, working for free, more about coffin making, and concludes the interview with some ghost stories.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Souris, PE
New Zealand, PE
Subject (Temporal)
1971
1946
1920s
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:51
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:01:18
Discussion about trading lumber for groceries; lumber, groceries.

SIDE A 00:01:20 -- 00:03:59
Discussion about his ice house; ice house, sawdust, pop.

SIDE A 00:04:01 -- 00:06:33
Discussion about coffins, hearses, and wakes; coffins, hearses, wakes, funerals, coffin making.

SIDE A 00:06:33 -- 00:11:46
Discussion about rum running and bootlegging; Captain Dick's, kegs, whiskey, rum rumming, bootlegging, liquor prices, black rum, Captain Banks, Reggie MacDonald, Joe MacDonald, 12 mile limit, prohibition.

SIDE A 00:11:46 -- 00:13:56
Discussion about moonshine; moonshine, sugar, molasses, stealing, rum.

SIDE A 00:13:59 -- 00:15:26
Discussion about gristmills and potato brokering; White, gristmill, flour, potatoes.

SIDE A 00:15:26 -- 00:17:30
Discussion about supplies at his store; hardware, general store, drugstore, medicine.

SIDE A 00:17:31 -- 00:23:09
Discussion about his job as a mailman; Lenny Hennesey, Bear River, April Fool's Day, wages, 1971.

SIDE A 00:23:09 -- 00:25:47
Discussion about his general store and characters in the area; store hours, general store, radio, fiddler.

SIDE A 00:25:47 -- 00:27:38
Discussion about break-ins and crime; crime, stealing.

SIDE A 00:27:38 -- 00:28:58
Discussion about figs of tobacco; figs of tobacco, tobacco, molasses.

SIDE A 00:29:01 -- 00:31:59
Discussion about the store continues, with mention of the changes in the area over the years; general store, New Zealand, train station.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:59.
***Side A ends mid-sentence.
SIDE B 00:32:04 -- 00:34:25
Discussion about potato picking in 1946; wages, Souris River, farming, potatoes.

SIDE B 00:34:26 -- 00:35:51
Discussion about pulp; pulp, pulp prices.

SIDE B 00:35:51 -- 00:42:50
Discussion about blacksmiths and coopers; 1920s, Frank Willard, Joe Doucette, blacksmith, cooper, barrels, kegs, beer, whiskey, swish.

SIDE B 00:42:50 -- 00:47:06
Discussion about people helping each other for free, and making coffins; rough coffin, Dingwell, coffins, Russian hemp, Sovinto, funerals, undertakers.

SIDE B 00:47:06 -- 01:03:51
Discussion about ghost stories; devil, black dog, phantom ship, priest, haunted house, homemade beer.

Tape ends at 01:03:51.