Helen Chandler T2 [Tape Two]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Chandler, Helen
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2010-01-13
Date Digitized
2010-06-18
Abstract
This interview is This interview is with Helen Chandler of Hazelbrook, P.E.I. In this interview Helen talks about the Halifax Explosion, chores on the farm, horses, family, religion, trains, teaching, women's work and gender roles, doctors and midwives, breaking the roads, mail, and the Spanish Flu.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Hazelbrook, PE
Charlottetown, PE
Subject (Temporal)
1868
1958
1912
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:31:59
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***This interview is SIDE A only.
***The audio speeds up and becomes somewhat distorted starting at 00:26:44.
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:01:19
Discussion about the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion.

SIDE A 00:01:19 -- 00:06:21
Discussion about chores on the farm, potato farming, and horses; farming, chores, horses, potato varieties, Beauty of Hebron, Dakota Red, acreage, potato farming, plowing.

SIDE A 00:06:21 -- 00:09:54
Discussion about her family; William Alexander Chandler, William Chandler, well digging, shipbuilding, Michael Long, immigrants, 1868, The Great Eastern.

SIDE A 00:09:54 -- 00:14:17
Discussion about her parents, with mention of religion; Hazelbrook, Hazelbrook church, William A. Chandler, carpenter, Mt. Albion School, 1958, Emiline Chandler, religion, Roman Catholic, Protestant.

SIDE A 00:14:17 -- 00:18:10
Discussion about farming continues, with mention of milk, eggs, and chickens; milk, farming, eggs, chickens, creamery, butter, Market Square.

SIDE A 00:18:10 -- 00:21:19
Discussion about train stations and longevity; Mt. Albion Station, Roy Jones, station agent, Henry Jones, Hazelbrook Station, Susan Jones, Gordon Carver, longevity.

SIDE A 00:21:19 -- 00:24:39
Discussion about teaching, gender roles, and women's work; teaching, salary, wages, teacher's salary, women's careers, women's work, gender roles, women's vote.

SIDE A 00:24:39 -- 00:26:44
Discussion about nurses, midwives, and doctors; Lettie MacKinnon, midwives, nurses, Dr. George Dewar, doctors.

SIDE A 00:26:44 -- 00:31:59
Discussion about various topics including electicity, telephones, breaking the roads, mail delivery, the Mt. Albion store, chewing tobacco, and illness; breaking the roads, horses, mail, 1912, Mt. Albion, W. J. MacEachern, Gordon Myers, chewing tobacco, Spanish Flu.

Tape ends at 00:31:59.