Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2002-08-08
Date Digitized
2010-08-26
Abstract
This is an interview with Susan Andrews (nee Jones) of Hazelbrook, P.E.I. In this interview Susan talks about her parents, the railway, Hazelbrook Station, taxis, Charlottetown, music lessons, home remedies, dairies, school, teaching, multiple sclerosis, orphans, Boston, blacksmiths, stores, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:17
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:01:23
Discussion about her parents; Roy Jones, Georgie Jenkins.




SIDE A 00:01:23 -- 00:06:46

Discussion about the railway and Hazelbrook Station; ticket agents, Hazelbrook Station, Frank Paquet, Art Coffin, train fare, trains, railway.




SIDE A 00:06:46 -- 00:08:02

Discussion about how she met her husband; Boston, traveling, 1957.




SIDE A 00:08:02 -- 00:11:50

Discussion about the railway continues; railway, mail, section man, storms, accidents, 1956, railway bridge, last train.




SIDE A 00:11:50 -- 00:13:14

Discussion about taxis, ice cream, and White's Restaurant; taxis, Jimmy Power, Shelfoon, ice cream, White's Restaurant, Charlottetown.




SIDE A 00:13:14 -- 00:16:13

Discussion about music lessons, with mention of Old Home Week; Old Home Week, Col. Full, music lessons, piano lessons, Pearl Sanford.




SIDE A 00:16:13 -- 00:18:07

Discussion about her grandparents, with mention of John Gilpin; Henry Jones, Mary Jenkins, Spurgeon Jenkins, deer, John Gilpin.




SIDE A 00:18:07 -- 00:20:01

Discussion about the railway continues; railway, trains, water towers, soot, steam engines.




SIDE A 00:20:01 -- 00:22:58

Discussion about the telephone and home remedies; telephones, home remedies, Mary Jenkins, mustard plasters, black currant jam, goose grease, cough medicine, salt herring.




SIDE A 00:22:58 -- 00:24:49

Discussion about flour bag clothes and killing pigs; killing pigs, flour bag clothes, flour bags.




SIDE A 00:24:49 -- 00:27:07

Discussion about the Hazelbrook Dairy and the milk train; Hazelbrook Dairy, Hazelbrook, dairies, milk, butter, milk train.




SIDE A 00:27:07 -- 00:28:23

Discussion about traveling on the train; traveling, trains, Arthur Vessey.




SIDE A 00:28:23 -- 00:31:35

Discussion about school, with mention of Hazelbrook Station; school, Hazelbrook, teachers, Chandler, chewing tobacco, Hazelbrook Station, news.




SIDE A ends at 00:31:35.



SIDE B 00:31:43 -- 00:32:03

Discussion about Mary O'Malley; Mary O' Malley.




SIDE B 00:32:03 -- 00:37:02

Discussion about going to Prince of Wales College and her teaching career; Prince of Wales College, teaching, teachers, school, 1940s, teacher's salary, teaching supplement.




SIDE B 00:37:02 -- 00:38:08

Discussion about her father's work on the railway continues; railway, Roy Jones, railway watches.




SIDE B 00:38:08 -- 00:42:44

Discussion about staying at a boarding house while attending college, with mention of pack peddlers and Drake the iceman; boarding houses, Will Drake, iceman, ice, cooking.




SIDE B 00:42:44 -- 00:47:21

Discussion about various topics including Christmas, her siblings, and Market Square; Christmas, cooking, Georgie Jenkins, presents, dolls, Henry Jones, Robert Jones, Pearl Jones, Market Square, Roland Jay, Milton Buell.




SIDE B 00:47:21 -- 00:54:09

Discussion about multiple sclerosis and orphans; multiple sclerosis, orphans, Boston, Isabel Middleton.




SIDE B 00:54:09 -- 00:55:20

Discussion about the consolidated school; consolidated school, Edna Moyse.




SIDE B 00:55:20 -- 00:56:58

Discussion about various topics including blacksmiths, nicknames, and beater diggers; blacksmiths, nicknames, beater diggers, MacKenzie, MacKenzie digger.




SIDE B 00:56:58 -- 00:59:42

Discussion about the Mount Albion store and blueberries; Mount Albion, Mt. Albion, eggs, egg trading, blueberries.




SIDE B 00:59:42 -- 01:00:31

Discussion about transportation and poverty; poverty, transportation, 1930s.




SIDE B 01:00:31 -- 01:03:17

Discussion about Boston; Boston.




Tape ends at 01:03:17.