***Disclaimer - This interview contains some profanity and language some may find inappropriate.
***Side A may be the conclusion to Side A of Tape 6
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:03:08
Discussion about seals and seal hunting; flippers, blood, Newfoundlanders, liquor, Karlsen and Company, Chris, Ricky, ice.
SIDE A 00:03:09 -- 00:07:55
Discussion about boat engines, lobster prices ($0.01 per lobster), and his father's sailboat tipping over in April; engine, mold, upset, lobster, price, ballast, row, nets, Murray River, anchors, April, cold, ice, fishing.
SIDE A 00:07:56 -- 00:14:29
Discussion about fishing boats and different types of engines; Bruce Stewart, Acadia, engine, boat, Gray, Allan Jameson, Earl J., Stanley, Tuttle, crank, International, Lem Baker, timer.
SIDE A 00:14:30 -- 00:16:53
Discussion about Lem Baker's blacksmith shop, his centrifugal engine, and the work he did for fishermen; Beach Point, Bruce Stewart, Hall and Stafford, Lem Baker, centrifugal engine, guns, blacksmith.
SIDE A 00:16:54 -- 00:19:03
Discussion about killocks (homemade anchors); stick, anchor, killock, lobster, fishing, wood, stones.
SIDE A 00:19:04 -- 00:22:39
Discussion about his father working lobster fishing for McKegan's factory in the early 1920s, making $0.01 per lobster, and what work was like in the factories; McKegan's, boat, gear, traps, lobsters, sailboat, doreys, Shelburne dorey, Paquet dorey, fishing.
SIDE A 00:22:40 -- 00:29:12
Discussion about Roy's experiences in fishing factories, building his own gear and traps, wages, and Fisher Brothers in Charlottetown; cleaver, Johnson's, Murray Harbour, Butler and Miller, factory, fishermen, pay, gear, packers, cans, shipping, Fisher Brothers, hake, chicken haddie, lobster.
SIDE A 00:29:13 -- 00:31:31
Discussion about lobster as the "poor man's food", using lobsters as manure, the abundance of lobsters at the time, and catching a 13lb lobster; lobster, Ben Irvin, poor, 13
SIDE A ends at 00:31:31.
SIDE B 00:31:35 -- 00:32:10
Discussion about big lobsters continues; lobsters, bait, trap, claw, big.
SIDE B 00:32:11 -- 00:35:47
Discussion about the tough times in the 1930s, clothing they wore then, and "hooking parties"; 1930s, tough, patches, clothes, hooking, sewing, mats, suit, singing, stories.
SIDE B 00:35:48 -- 00:37:21
Discussion about Gaelic speakers in the area; Chester Martin, Allan Cameron, Gaelic, sing, Glen William, father, church.
SIDE B 00:37:22 -- 00:45:05
Discussion about raising and shearing sheep, the different breeds, and a lightning storm that killed three sheep; sheep, shearing, wool, water, longers, spring, pasture, lightning, storm, rain, Jack, white-faced, mutton, wash, boiler.
SIDE B 00:45:05 -- 00:46:31
Discussion about his father and the blacksmith making a boiler for boiling food for the livestock; boiler, blacksmith, grain, potatoes, pork, pigs.
SIDE B 00:46:32 -- 00:51:58
Discussion about preparing sheep wool continues and Roy tells about clothing his mother made with the yarn; wash, carding mill, yarn, mill, water wheel, yarn, trout, spinning wheel, St. Mary's Road, rolls, lobster mitts, dye, Clow's store.
SIDE B 00:51:58 -- 00:53:00
Discussion about Roy's mother making her own soap; soap, cast iron, pot, lye, boil.
SIDE B 00:53:01 -- 00:54:12
Discussion about the earthquake in 1929; earthquake, 1929.
SIDE B 00:54:13 -- 00:57:05
Discussion about hauling potatoes to the starch factory for $0.02 per pound; starch, potatoes, Hunter River, Murray Harbour, rum, horse, wagon, factory.
SIDE B 00:57:06 -- 01:03:20
Discussion about the cheese factory and his mother making homemade butter; Ray Kennedy, milk, Elmer, Fred Johnson, Dave Miller, Jim Henderson, Cambridge, separator, butter, cream, homemade, churn, Jack Collins.
Tape ends at 01:03:20.
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