Janie Pat MacLellan

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: MacLellan, Janie Pat
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
1999-01-02
Date Digitized
2010-08-30
Abstract
This is an interview with Janie Pat MacLellan of Arlington, P.E.I. In this interview Janie talks about work on the family farm, her family, deep snow, sleighs, horses, school, Christmas, home remedies, WWI, the Spanish Flu, life during the 1930s, homemade goods, seafood, pack peddlers, Sundays, cars, apples, potatoes, and various other topics.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Arlington, PE
Subject (Temporal)
1906
WWI
1930s
1919
1953
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:44
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:02:14
Discussion about horsepower and thrashing; horsepower, thrashing.

SIDE A 00:02:14 -- 00:07:22
Discussion about her family; Patrick MacLellan, Catherine MacLellan, Alexander MacLellan, Mary MacKinnon, walking.

SIDE A 00:07:22 -- 00:08:30
Discussion about deep snow and sleighs; deep snow, snow, sleighs.

SIDE A 00:08:30 -- 00:15:26
Discussion about school; school, Arlington, Ray Brown, teachers, school subjects, school concerts, school lunches.

SIDE A 00:15:26 -- 00:17:06
Discussion about sleighs and ice travel; sleighs, ice travel, bushed ice.

SIDE A 00:17:06 -- 00:21:23
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, presents, candy, Christmas dinner, sleigh bells, Christmas mass, Father John A. MacDonald.

SIDE A 00:21:23 -- 00:23:37
Discussion about her birth in the family home; midwives, Dr. Stewart, Catherine MacLellan.

SIDE A 00:23:37 -- 00:27:43
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, tonsillitis, iodine, sulfur and molasses, onions and molasses, salt herring.

SIDE A 00:27:43 -- 00:29:22
Discussion about her birthday; 1906, birthdays.

SIDE A 00:29:22 -- 00:31:49
Discussion about WWI; WWI, war parcels.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:49.
SIDE B 00:31:54 -- 00:33:02
Discussion about the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion.

SIDE B 00:33:02 -- 00:36:06
Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, 1919.

SIDE B 00:36:06 -- 00:45:47
Discussion about life on the family farm during the 1930s and her mother's homemade goods; chores, milking, cheese, creameries, Arlington, butter, geese, 1930s, self sufficiency, Great Depression, geese, raffles, dresses, homemade goods, clothing, looming, looms, dyes.

SIDE B 00:45:47 -- 00:48:03
Discussion about various topics including sheep, seafood, planting by the moon, and mussel mud; seafood, cod, lobster, fertilizer, mussel mud, planting by the moon, phases of the moon, sheep, lamb.

SIDE B 00:48:03 -- 00:51:10
Discussion about horses; horses, sleighs, smart horses.

SIDE B 00:51:10 -- 00:53:36
Discussion about pack peddlers; pack peddlers.

SIDE B 00:53:36 -- 00:54:12
Discussion about pigs; pork fat, pork, pigs,
SIDE B 00:54:12 -- 00:56:47
Discussion about various topics including electricity, ice, and wash day; electricity, ice, wash day, refrigerators, washing machines, 1953.

SIDE B 00:56:47 -- 00:58:32
Discussion about Sundays and card games; Sundays, card games.

SIDE B 00:58:32 -- 01:00:59
Discussion about cars and tractors; cars, tractors.

SIDE B 01:00:59 -- 01:03:44
Discussion about apples, cherries, and potatoes; apples, cherries, potatoes, potato farming, potato varieties, blue potatoes.

Tape ends at 01:03:44.