SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:02:08
Discussion about movies and plays; movies, play, Uncle Tom's Cabin, theatre, Empire Theatre.
SIDE A 00:02:08 -- 00:08:23
Discussion about stores in Charlottetown; Charlottetown, stores, Black's China Shop, Holman's, dressmakers, milliners, Paton's, Prowse's, hats, millinery.
SIDE A 00:08:23 -- 00:26:55
Discussion about WWI and WWII; WWI, drill shed, Fanningbank, hospitals, Ruth Heartz, WWI soldiers, 105th Battalion, Red Cross parcels, war parcels, WWII, mustard gas, David Mathieson, Tom Rogers, Daniel MacDonald, RAF, airports.
SIDE A 00:26:55 -- 00:31:06
Discussion about the Halifax Explosion, with mention of Bedford Basin during WWII; Halifax Explosion, model school, WWII, convoys.
SIDE A 00:31:06 -- 00:33:11
Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, 1919.
SIDE A 00:33:11 -- 00:35:11
Discussion about the Great Depression; Great Depression, 1930s, hobos, Heartz.
SIDE A 00:35:11 -- 00:47:26
Discussion about her family and their involvement in politics; politics, Mary Leard, Liberals, David Leard, treaties, women's rights, John Alexander Mathieson, Hon. John Mathieson, voting, Sir John Thompson.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:26.
SIDE B 00:47:32 -- 01:08:40
Discussion about her father and her family history, with mention of their involvement in politics; politics, Liberals, David Leard, newspapers, forerunners, judges, premiers, trains, 1917, Robert Borden, Borden, lawyers, cars, Ronald Mathieson, Dr. Charles Mathieson, teachers, wages, 1911, John Alexander Mathieson, Hon. John Mathieson, elections, 1912.
SIDE B 01:08:40 -- 01:13:25
Discussion about her mother's horses, growing up on Water Street, and the harbour; Charlottetown, Water Street, wharves, schooners, Charlottetown Harbour, Pauley's Lumber Yard, ice boats, bushed ice, jiggers.
SIDE B 01:13:25 -- 01:14:33
Discussion about cars and a story about falling off her bicycle; cars.
SIDE B 01:14:33 -- 01:17:20
Discussion about the US Counsel, German ships, and stories about WWI; 1913, German ships, WWI, Officer's Club, German sailors, German POWs, POWs.
SIDE B 01:17:20 -- 01:19:31
Discussion about the Butts and her siblings; Charlottetown, the Butts, David Mathieson, Helen Mathieson, Dora Mathieson.
SIDE B 01:19:31 -- 01:28:06
Discussion about growing up in Charlottetown continues, with mention of livestock in the city, rum runners, and ships; Charlottetown, rum runners, rum running, Captain Dicks, SS Harland, Harland, picnics, traveling.
SIDE B 01:28:06 -- 01:29:31
Discussion about the Hillsborough Bridge and trains; trains, Hillsborough Bridge, swing bridges.
SIDE B 01:29:31 -- 01:33:47
Discussion about delivery men and the circus; Drake, iceman, coal man, ice, ice cream, Hurdy Gurdy, monkeys, circus.
SIDE B 01:33:47 -- 01:35:00
Discussion about sleigh bells and house parties; house parties, sleigh bells, levees, box sleigh parties.
Tape ends at 01:35:00.
