Audio file
Contributors
Interviewee: Ferguson, Cora
Audio engineer: Gray, Tristan John
Date Recorded
1998-02-09
Date Digitized
2010-06-25
Abstract
This is an interview with Cora Ferguson. In this interview Cora talks about her family history, her parents, Victoria, Dan Ferguson, schooners, cheese factories, entertainment, the phantom ship, Kay Wood, hockey, the Spanish Flu, home remedies, Christmas, lobster canneries, religion, hotels, and various other topics.
Genre
Subject (Geographic)
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:22
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:07:50
Cora talks about her family background, her grandparent's farm, baking bread and her love of sewing; sewing, bread.

SIDE A 00:07:50 -- 00:16:48
Old stores in Victoria, Dan Ferguson and his schooners, and the Merchant Navy; Victoria, stores, Dan Ferguson, schooners, farming, Merchant Navy.

SIDE A 00:16:48 -- 00:23:38
The cheese factory in Hampton, movies in the town hall, sneaking out to dances, Sundays, the gramophone, and courting using a horse and wagon; cheese factories, Hampton, movies, dances, Sundays, gramophones, courting.

SIDE A 00:23:38 -- 00:31:37
The phantom ship, Kay Wood, and women's hockey; phantom ship, ghosts, Kay Wood, women's hockey.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:37.
SIDE B 00:31:41 -- 00:41:51
Hockey, the team traveling and the Victoria Rink and electricity in the area; hockey, women's hockey, hockey gear, traveling, Victoria, Victoria Rink, hockey teams, electricity, rinks.

SIDE B 00:41:51 -- 00:53:09
Cures for the Spanish Flu, home remedies, The Harland, and her time in a two room school house; school, Spanish Flu, cures, home remedies, Harland.

SIDE B 00:53:09 -- 00:58:25
Christmas, her grandfather, a sailors outfit, his lobster cannery, grandfather Howatt and the Free Church of Scotland; Christmas, lobster canneries, Howatt, church, Free Church of Scotland.

SIDE B 00:58:25 -- 01:03:22
Pleasant View Hotel, her aunt Cassie running the Landsdowne Hotel, mail to Summerside, ice boats, a drowning and her grandfather Willie; Pleasant View Hotel, Landsdowne Hotel, hotels, mail, drownings.

Tape ends at 01:03:22.