Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2002-11-10
Date Digitized
2010-10-11
Abstract
This is an interview with Cecil Kitchener Ferguson of Charlottetown and Hampton, PEI. In this interview Cecil talks about cooking, his service in WWII, farming, Hampton, blacksmiths, horses, Christmas, his family, Sundays and religion, the phantom ship and ghost stories, hockey, skunks, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:30:52
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:03 -- 00:08:20
Discussion about how he got the name Kitchener, cooking, and lumber camps; Kitchener, WWII, RCAF, cooks, cutting wood, firewood, Debert, lumber camps.

SIDE A 00:08:20 -- 00:11:46
Discussion about farming potatoes, with mention of apples; potatoes, apples, potato varieties, black potatoes.

SIDE A 00:11:46 -- 00:14:24
Discussion about food and cooking; food, cooking.

SIDE A 00:14:24 -- 00:17:30?
Discussion about his birth in Hampton and deep snow; childbirth, Dr. Bovyer, midwives, 1917, deep snow, horse and sleigh, breaking the roads.

SIDE A 00: -- 00:19:02
Discussion about visiting and helping neighbours; visiting.

SIDE A 00:19:02 -- 00:21:12
Discussion about blacksmiths; Danny MacLeod, blacksmiths, Joe MacLeod, Victoria, horse trees.

SIDE A 00:21:12 -- 00:25:21
Discussion about horses; horses.

SIDE A 00:25:21 -- 00:26:13
Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu.

SIDE A 00:26:13 -- 00:28:58
Discussion about Hampton and Jack Leard; stores, Hampton, Morrison's Store, Clayton Morrison, Hampton Hall, Jack Leard, Mac Dixon.

SIDE A 00:28:58 -- 00:30:23
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, presents, Lucky Birds.

SIDE A 00:30:23 -- 00:31:51
Discussion about his family; Peter Ferguson, Annie Lamont.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:51.
SIDE B 00:31:58 -- 00:35:20
Discussion about his family continues, with mention of life during the 1930s and the family farm; flour bag clothes, homemade clothes, 1930s, farming.

SIDE B 00:35:20 -- 00;36:38
Discussion about the first tractor in the area; tractors, John Myers.

SIDE B 00:36:38 -- 00:38:05
Discussion about school; school.

SIDE B 00:38:05 -- 00:39:40
Discussion about mussel mud; mussel mud.

SIDE B 00:39:40 -- 00:42:34
Discussion about Sundays and religion; Sundays, religion, Church of Scotland, religious feuds.

SIDE B 00:42:34 -- 00:45:56
Discussion about the phantom ship; phantom ship.

SIDE B 00:45:56 -- 00:47:49
Discussion about the Hindenburg; Hindenburg, 1930s.

SIDE B 00:47:49 -- 00:48:51
Discussion about the Italian Air Force in Victoria; Italian Air Force, Victoria.

SIDE B 00:48:51 -- 00:51:24
Discussion about ghosts; ghosts, ghost stories.

SIDE B 00:51:24 -- 00:58:58
Discussion about hockey; hockey, Hampton Haymakers, hockey teams, hockey rinks, skates, hockey fights, fights, Ralph Myers, Bert Cameron, Jack Beers, hockey equipment, women's hockey.

SIDE B 00:58:58 -- 01:01:38
Discussion about lime kilns and skunks; lime kilns, skunks, skunk bounty.

SIDE B 01:01:38 -- 01:02:48
Discussion about rum; rum, rum running.

SIDE B 01:02:48 -- 01:03:52
Discussion about working as a cook on the ferries; ferries, cooks.

Tape ends at 01:03:52.