SIDE A 00:00:03 -- 00:01:00
Discussion about his family; twin, family, Summerville, Bill Doyle, Andy Doyle, Mary Doyle, Leo Doyle, Norm Doyle, Joseph Doyle, Eileen Doyle.
SIDE A 00:01:02 -- 00:03:47
Discussion about his first job at age 12 and farming; farming, Jim MacMillan, milking, plow, plough, plowing, ploughing, hay, horses.
SIDE A 00:03:47 -- 00:06:25
Discussion about blacksmiths; coal, horseshoes, Week's, Pat Welsh, Summerville, Bill Carver, Lem Hughes, Emmett Bradley, Samson, blacksmith.
SIDE A 00:06:25 -- 00:06:57
Brief discussion about Christmas and toys as a child; presents, Christmas, toys, childhood.
SIDE A 00:06:57 -- 00:08:12
Brief discussion about WWII and Billy Moore's farm; WWII, army, Andy Doyle, New Perth, farming, blacksmith, 1937, 1948.
SIDE A 00:08:12 -- 00:13:59
Discussion about working in the lumber woods in St. Martin's, New Brunswick; lumber camp, St. Martin's, sawmill, lumber, hardwood, saw, crosscut saw, cook, mill camp, Leo Marr, Charlie Bennett, wages.
SIDE A 00:14:01 -- 00:15:10
Discussion about entertainment at the lumber camp; step dancing, cards, card games, mouth organ, Islanders, Charlie McNeely.
SIDE A 00:15:10 -- 00:16:48
Discussion about types of trees and horses; lumber camp, Andy Doyle, hardwood, snigger, horses.
SIDE A 00:16:48 -- 00:20:38
Discussion about living inside the sawmill, different jobs there, and food; deel, cook, sawyer, dessert, prunes, sawmill, lumber camp.
SIDE A 00:20:38 -- 00:22:08
Discussion about general stores; general store, MacLeod's, Jack Devine, Joe Mooney, bartering, Montague.
SIDE A 00:22:11 -- 00:24:48
Discussion about school and the Summerville racetrack; Summerville, school, racetrack, Jim MacMillan, Tommy Dunn, Chester Pratt.
SIDE A 00:24:48 -- 00:27:14
Discussion about animals on the family farm; horses, farm, animals, feed, oats, Percheron mare, foal.
SIDE A 00:27:14 -- 00:28:08
Discussion about gristmills and sawmills; Eddy Stewart, Joe Mooney, Laird, Gordon Ross, gristmill, sawmill.
SIDE A 00:28:09 -- 00:31:48
Discussion about getting electricity, television, and radio for the first time; 1951, Norm MacMillan, television, radio, electricity, Mike Power, George Martin, fiddler, Allan West, dances, music, George Moore.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:48.
SIDE B 00:31:55 -- 00:33:33
Discussion about school continues; Frank MacMillan, Eugene Dunn, school, teachers, Buddy Dunn.
SIDE B 00:33:33 -- 00:34:50
Discussion about dances; liquor, dances, fighting, moonshine, Johnson, boxer.
SIDE B 00:34:50 -- 00:36:52
Discussion about his grandparents and Fiddler MacDonald; family, James Doyle, teacher, Earnscliffe, Summerville, shoemaker, bootmaker, Sunday boots, Dunn, Fiddler MacDonald, 1920, funeral.
SIDE B 00:36:52 -- 00:40:03
Discussion about his grandfather's funeral, caskets, and the MacKinnons; funeral, Jame Doyle, family, casket, glass casket, horse and sleigh, hearse, wake, Milton Chink, Vernon River church, Billy Moore.
SIDE B 00:40:03 -- 00:44:20
Discussion about ghost stories; ghost story, ghost, ball of fire, forerunner, black dog, hanuted house, playing cards.
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SIDE B 00:44:23 -- 00:47:35
Discussion about his house and farm; 1945, 1948, farming, milk, dairy farming, Norm MacMillan, Eldon, starch factory, cream factory, New Perth, cheese factory.
SIDE B 00:47:35 -- 00:49:48
Discussion about jobs; jobs, Brent Coady, bootmaker, Annie Callaghan, tailor, Campbell, Montague, suit, farming, Billy Greenwood, painter, Harold MacLeod.
SIDE B 00:49:48 -- 00:51:24
Discussion about trains and going to town; trains, horses, Vernon River, train station, exhibition, Montague, buffalo, Buffalo.
SIDE B 00:51:24 -- 00:55:15
Discussion about buying a wagon; Ally Carver, Francis and Fortune, autoback wagon, rubber tire wagon, Model-A Ford, wagon, gas, Mike Power, Model-T Ford, John MacMillan, Morris, McCluskey, gas prices, car prices, Imperial Oil, 1937, Summerville.
SIDE B 00:55:15 -- 00:57:40
Discussion about his first tractor; tractor, John A. MacDonald, horses, Ferguson tractor, farming, Taylor.
SIDE B 00:57:40 -- 00:59:18
Discussion about shipping; shipping, Joe Smith, train, Vernon River, George Lawson, Thompson, Montague, potatoes, bartering.
SIDE B 00:59:18 -- 01:00:59
Discussion about Gus Callaghan's store; Johnny Wilson, Richard Prattnews, Owen Callaghan, Annie Callaghan, Gus Callaghan, general store.
SIDE B 01:01:00 -- 01:03:43
Discussion about fiddlers and peddlers; Jack Webster, Ward Crane, Summerville, Billy Fraser, Lorne Valley, Angus Johnson, gossip, news, newspaper.
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Tape ends at 01:03:43.
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