SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:04:18
Discussion about her family history, their home, and school; Hardy, school, Annie Gillis, one room school, Mary Livingstone.
SIDE A 00:04:18 -- 00:05:41
Discussion about various topics including delivering the mail, deep snow, electricity, and telephones; mail, deep snow, horse and sleigh, electricity, telephones, party line, 1950s.
SIDE A 00:05:41 -- 00:10:28
Discussion about various topics including taking the train, her friends, and traveling on the ice; trains, train fare, ice travel, friends, 1943, Irene White, Michael Thompson.
SIDE A 00:10:28 -- 00:13:40
Discussion about animals in Charlottetown; Dillon and Spillot, dump, Charlottetown, chickens.
SIDE A 00:13:40 -- 00:19:04
Discussion about her family, school, and businesses around Charlottetown; model school, Juanita Hardy, Mildred Harrington, teachers, Economy Grocery, fudge, Capitol Theatre, movies, Johnny Snags, movie tickets, The Rendezvous, The Old Spain, restaurants, Harry Ward.
SIDE A 00:19:04 -- 00:22:01
Discussion about her first husband; Donald MacLean, 1956, WWII.
SIDE A 00:22:01 -- 00:24:10
Discussion about swimming in the Hillsborough River and rats in Charlottetown; swimming, tar, rats, Charlottetown.
SIDE A 00:24:10 -- 00:29:13
Discussion about different places in Charlottetown and life during WWII; Charlottetown, Horne's Motors, Davis and Fraser, meat market, meat, boarding, boarders, poverty, WWII, room and board.
***The remainder of SIDE A, 00:29:13 -- 00:32:10, is blank.
SIDE A ends at 00:32:10.
SIDE B 00:32:17 -- 00:35:55
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, presents, dolls, Christmas trees, stove.
SIDE B 00:35:55 -- 00:37:15
Discussion about V-J Day and WWII; V-J Day, WWII, air sirens.
SIDE B 00:37:15 -- 00:41:14
Discussion about Market Square and and growing up in Charlottetown; Market Square, Charlottetown, 1945, rivalries.
SIDE B 00:41:14 -- 00:43:27
Discussion about trains and airplanes, with a story about two planes crashing; trains, jitneys, RAF, airplanes, plane crash, accidents, Southport.
SIDE B 00:43:27 -- 00:49:07
Discussion about her aunt Ada and her husband who was a Nazi; 1936, Nazis, Germans, 1939, guns, 1945, Henry Bagt.
SIDE B 00:49:07 -- 00:51:35
Discussion about stores around Charlottetown; Weaterbie, McKie, Lebanese, stores, Charlottetown.
SIDE B 00:51:35 -- 00:55:17
Discussion about women's rights and changes over the years; women's rights, women's work, midwives.
SIDE B 00:55:17 -- 00:59:27
Discussion about various topics including home remedies, her aunt Millie, hand-me-downs, and visiting family in Ontario; home remedies, smoking, sewing, dresses.
***There is some distortion in the audio towards the end of the following discussion.
SIDE B 00:59:27 -- 01:04:17
Discussion about her first time off the Island and her family; cars, traveling, cancer.
Tape ends at 01:04:17.
