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Contributors
Interviewee: Graham, Austin
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1998-01-15
Date Digitized
2010-08-02
Abstract
This is an interview with Austin and Vivian (nee White) Graham of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview the Grahams talk about their family history, farming, Hunter River, Stanley Bridge, Cavendish, potatoes, cars, gravel, checkers, pack peddlers, hockey, Lucy Maud Montgomery, mussel mud, ice, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:32
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:06:35
Discussion about Austin's family history, the family farm, and Stanley Bridge; Graham, Cavendish, William Graham, pig boiler, pigs, pig boiling, mixed farms, cattle, milk, cream, Stanley Bridge, cheesemakers, W. T. Weir, Caraquets, Bayview, fishing, cod.

SIDE A 00:06:35 -- 00:12:44
Discussion about family continues, with mention of potatoes, Hunter River, and cars; Hunter River, potatoes, Mary Moore, Harvest Excursion, potato prices, 1927, car prices, cars, Model-T Ford, engine crank, Nicholson, Nash, Clarence Stewart, tailors.

SIDE A 00:12:44 -- 00:13:57
Discussion about Stanley Bridge continues; Stanley Bridge, Archie MacLeod, Captain Fyfe.

SIDE A 00:13:57 -- 00:18:31
Discussion about McGuigan's gravel pit in Hope River and stores in Hunter River; Hope River, McGuigan, gravel pit, gravel, Tommy Blanchard, Mervin Bulman, John Leo McGuigan, Hunter River, undertakers, Jim Andrews.

SIDE A 00:18:31 -- 00:21:15
Discussion about Stanley Bridge continues, with mention of breaking the roads and general stores; Stanley Bridge, undertakers, A. J. MacLeod, doctors, Miller Fyfe, mailman, Johnny Smith, breaking the roads, general stores, gossip.

SIDE A 00:21:15 -- 00:27:37
Discussion about the checker league and pack peddlers; checkers, entertainment, Cavendish, checker league, games, Cecil Simpson, pack peddlers, Tarbush, tailors.

SIDE A 00:27:37 -- 00:30:25
Discussion about tough times and starch factories; potatoes, starch factories, potato prices, Hunter River, Murray Harbour, Horace White.

SIDE A 00:30:25 -- 00:31:47
Discussion about Vivian's grandfather Captain George Dunn; Captain George Dunn.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:47.
SIDE B 00:31:52 -- 00:34:39
Discussion about Vivian's grandfather Captain George Dunn continues; Captain George Dunn, religion, smoking, chewing tobacco, twist tobacco, Winsloe Dunn.

SIDE B 00:34:39 -- 00:36:19
Discussion about Vivian's ancestors; White, Wallace White, Percy White, Peter White, sea captains.

SIDE B 00:36:19 -- 00:40:00
Discussion about Murray Harbour and stuck trains; Murray Harbour, Milton Buell, Prowse's Hotel, hotels, trains and snowstorms; trains, snowstorms, stuck trains.

SIDE B 00:40:00 -- 00:44:26
Discussion about the Junior Royals hockey finals and trains; Buck Whitlock, Junior Royals, hockey, hockey teams, Windy Steele, hockey players, trains.

SIDE B 00:44:26 -- 00:48:43
Discussion about Lucy Maud Montgomery and her funeral; Lucy Maud Montgomery, Women's Missionary Society, 1942.

SIDE B 00:48:43 -- 00:52:24
Discussion about Jennie MacNeill, tourists, and growing up in Cavendish; Cavendish, Jennie MacNeill, tourists, 1930s, seaweed, fertilizer.

SIDE B 00:52:24 -- 00:55:07
Discussion about mussel mud and using fish as fertilizer; mussel mud, gasperaux, fertilizer.

SIDE B 00:55:07 -- 01:01:10
Discussion about ice, Spring Park and Pond Street, Willard Burke, and Munn's store; ice, ice houses, iceman, Spring Park, Drake, Pond Street, Willard Burke, Munn's store, milk, milk prices, refrigerators.

SIDE B 01:01:10 -- 01:03:42
Discussion about washboards, coal carts, and base burner stoves; washboards, coal carts, base burner stoves, Holman's.

Tape ends at 01:03:42.