SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:02:08
Photos of fishermen, some of Robbie's brothers and sisters, and his birth at home in 1904 with the aid of a midwife; fishermen, birth, 1904.
SIDE A 00:02:08 -- 00:05:46
His father the fisherman, his mother's death from pneumonia when he was young, being "farmed out" to neighbors, and his brother's death from tuberculosis; fishermen, pneumonia, tuberculosis, big families.
SIDE A 00:05:46 -- 00:07:14
His brother serving in the navy during WWI, a group of locals that also went, and one of them that died at sea; navy, WWI, burial at sea.
SIDE A 00:07:14 -- 00:09:03
Burials at sea and how hemp rope and fabric is made; hemp, rope, burial at sea.
SIDE A 00:09:03 -- 00:11:52
Funerals and burials now and then; death, coffins, funerals, burials, hearses.
SIDE A 00:11:52 -- 00:12:52
The story of "Dynamite" Jim Whelan; dynamite, explosions, Jim Whelan, nicknames, Dynamite Whelan.
SIDE A 00:12:52 -- 00:17:03
School and food; food, school, teachers, walking, molasses, fish, eels.
SIDE A 00:17:03 -- 00:21:37
His father fishing on the Grand Banks, fishing using many small boats, Sundays, and meals at sea; fish, fishing, Grand Banks, fishing boats, Sundays, food, hard tack, cod, Catholic.
SIDE A 00:21:37 -- 00:23:24
Robbie talks about the change in cod sizes after the introduction of draggers; cod, cod sizes, fish sizes, fish prices, fishing, draggers.
SIDE A 00:23:24 -- 00:26:20
Robbie talks about how he fished and the prices he would get; fish prices, fish, draggers, quintal, fishing.
SIDE A 00:26:20 -- 00:28:01
Robbie talks about hake sizes and fish tongues; hake, fish, fishing, fish tongues, fish sizes.
SIDE A 00:28:01 -- 00:31:44
Lobster fishing after WWII out of North Lake and building all of his traps by hand; lobster, fishing, losbter fishing, North Lake, lobster traps.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:44.
SIDE B 00:31:54 -- 00:34:00
Moving to Bunbury and his brother moving to Hunter River; Hunter River, Bunbury, blacksmiths, Charlottetown, moving.
SIDE B 00:34:00 -- 00:35:02
Robbie talks about his memories of the local blacksmith in Kingsboro; blacksmiths, horseshoeing, Kingsboro.
SIDE B 00:35:02 -- 00:37:16
Taking their grain to his uncle's mill in Lakeville; grain, wheat, Lakeville, mills, self sufficiency, gristmills.
SIDE B 00:37:16 -- 00:38:06
Robbie's interactions with the animals on the farm; horses, farming, animals, chores.
SIDE B 00:38:06 -- 00:40:57
Worked for a milkman in Bunbury, their delivery schedule of milk in Charlottetown, and where the farm was located in Bunbury; Bunbury, milk, milkman, delivery, Charlottetown.
SIDE B 00:40:57 -- 00:41:16
Helping neighbours with each others thrashing and other jobs; self sufficiency, thrashing, neighbours, kindness.
SIDE B 00:41:16 -- 00:42:52
Elsie Garvis drops by to visit Mr. Robertson and is interviewed by Dutch about her husband's fishing experiences with Robbie; cod, hake, fish sizes, fish prices, fishing boats, fish, fishing, Elsie Garvis, Garvis.
SIDE B 00:42:52 -- 00:42:27
Robbie talks about the ice business; ice, delivery, ice boxes, refrigeration, iceman.
SIDE B 00:42:27 -- 00:52:37
Working in the U.S. building wooden heels for women's shoes; USA, shoes, bootd, emigration, wages.
SIDE B 00:52:37 -- 00:55:35
Returning home, farming with his brother for a short time, fishing, and how he would salt his fish; farming, fishermen, fish, salting, hake, cod, salt fish.
SIDE B 00:55:35 -- 00:58:03
Shipping the fish to Halifax and local canneries, the different fish he would catch, and how draggers ruined his fishing business; fish, shipping, fishing, cod, draggers.
SIDE B 00:58:03 -- 00:59:38
Cod prices and his sons doing well at Basin Head; Basin Head, cod, cod fish, fish prices, fish, fishing.
SIDE B 00:59:38 -- 01:00:40
Mr. Robertson talks about his memories from around the time of the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion.
SIDE B 01:00:40 -- 01:01:55
Robbie talks about his travels on the train and how he once went to Sudbury, Ontario; trains, traveling, Ontario, Sudbury, railway.
SIDE B 01:01:55 -- 01:03:34
Robbie talks about picking up some black fish and flounders in the nets, changes in the fishing industry, and his first boat; fish, fishing, flounder, fishing nets, fishing industry, fishing boats, dories.
Tape ends at 01:03:34.
