Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2009-02-26
Date Digitized
2010-12-20
Abstract
This is an interview with Mary Livingstone (nee Bryenton) of Charlottetown, PEI. In this interview Mary talks about growing up on Union Road, trains, cars, horses, the farm, church, Christmas, the mail route, her siblings, homemade goods, dances, movies, her siblings, the 1930s, Charlottetown, sewing, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:06
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:04:35
Discussion about her birth, her neighbours on Union Road, and the trains; 1908, Union Road, Henry Henderson, station agents, trains, train stations.

SIDE A 00:04:35 -- 00:07:33
Discussion about cars and horses; cars, horses, Dudley Wright, Buick McLaughlin.

SIDE A 00:07:33 -- 00:09:17
Discussion about the farm; mixed farms, chores.

SIDE A 00:09:17 -- 00:11:21
Discussion about school and church; Union Road School, school, Alice Wyse, Alice Bryenton, Methodists, church union, religious feuds.

SIDE A 00:11:21 -- 00:12:49
Discussion about her mother's garden and selling vegetables, with mention of her siblings; gardens, vegetables, Fanny Mutch, berries.

SIDE A 00:12:49 --00:18:11
Discussion about their mail route, with mention of mud roads; mail route, cars, mailman, Model-T Ford, Railway Hill, Dudley Wright, mud roads, roads.

SIDE A 00:18:11 -- 00:18:53
Discussion about sending milk to Central Creameries; milk, Central Creameries.

SIDE A 00:18:53 -- 00:20:22
Discussion about various topics including the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion.

SIDE A 00:20:22 -- 00:20:56
Discussion about church; church, Methodist, Union Road.

SIDE A 00:20:56 -- 00:23:24
Discussion about her siblings; Keith Bryenton, Inez Bryenton, Boston.

SIDE A 00:23:24 -- 00:24:32
Discussion about her first time off the Island; traveling.

SIDE A 00:24:32 -- 00:26:53
Discussion about home remedies; Wayne Livingstone, Dr. Lea, home remedies, cures, cod liver oil, sulfur and molasses.

SIDE A 00:26:53 -- 00:28:22
Discussion about homemade clothes; flour bag clothes, homemade clothes, seamstresses, makeovers.

SIDE A 00:28:22 -- 00:30:10
Discussion about sheep and mills; sheep, Gates' mill, Leitha Vessey, mills.

SIDE A 00:30:10 -- 00:30:58
Discussion about dances and entertainment; house parties, dances, fiddlers, Joe May, Jack May.

SIDE A ends at 00:30:58.
SIDE B 00:31:07 -- 00:31:52
Discussion about dances and entertainment continues; house parties, dances, fiddlers, Joe May, Jack May, entertainment, chicken raffles, raffles.

SIDE B 00:31:52 -- 00:34:27
Discussion about her father and Sundays; Sundays, William Ward Beecher Bryenton, quiet Sundays.

SIDE B 00:34:27 -- 00:37:30
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, Christmas trees, Christmas dinner, goose, presents, Santa Claus.

SIDE B 00:37:30 -- 00:40:31
Discussion about WWI and WWII; WWI, WWII,
SIDE B 00:40:31 -- 00:41:22
Discussion about the Harland; Harland, SS Harland, steamboats.

SIDE B 00:41:22 -- 00:45:05
Discussion about home children; home children, Albert Abbott, Lillian Abbott, Raymond Abbott.

SIDE B 00:45:05 -- 00:47:26
Discussion about the radio, with mention of her brother Bill; radio, Bill Bryenton, A. Horne and Company.

SIDE B 00:47:26 -- 00:48:23
Discussion about the telephone; telephones, party line.

SIDE B 00:48:23 -- 00:50:28
Discussion about various topics including doctors, animals in town, and homemade soap; Dr. Yeo, Dr. Ira Yeo, Dr. Harold Yeo, doctors, soap, homemade soap.

SIDE B 00:50:28 -- 00:52:04
Discussion about the 1930s, potatoes, and meat and fish peddlers; poverty, 1930s, potatoes, meat peddlers, fish peddlers.

SIDE B 00:52:04 -- 00:53:44
Discussion about the Market Square; Market Square.

SIDE B 00:53:44 -- 00:56:41
Discussion about sewing; women's rights, Jack Miller, sewing, Custom Interiors.

SIDE B 00:56:41 -- 00:57:32
Discussion about silent movies; silent movies, movies, entertainment, movie prices.

SIDE B 00:57:32 -- 00:58:34
Discussion about places in Charlottetown; Charlottetown, Dizzy Block, Sunnyside.

SIDE B 00:58:34 -- 01:01:40
Discussion about various topics including eggs, driving, and deep snow; eggs, egg trading, bartering, blacksmiths, driving, cars, Model-T Ford, deep snow, snow.

SIDE B 01:01:40 -- 01:03:06
Discussion about silver foxes and bootlegging; Ray Clark, foxes, fox ranching, bootleggers, bootlegging, Union Road.

Tape ends at 01:03:06.