Lloyd Weeks T2 [Tape Two]

Contributors
Interviewer: Thompson, Reg "Dutch"
Interviewee: Weeks, Benjamin Lloyd
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-06-28
Abstract
This interview is with Benjamin Lloyd Weeks of Charlottetown, P.E.I. In this interview Lloyd and Dutch drive around Charlottetown talking about various topics. Those topics include the railway, the harbour and businesses around it, the Weeks' property, trains stuck in snow, and Charlottetown in 1928.
Genre
Interview
Subject (Geographic)
Charlottetown, PE
Subject (Temporal)
1928
Rights
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
00:31:54
Member of
Dutch Thompson Audio Collection
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
***This interview is SIDE A only. SIDE B is an interview with Milton and Kay Buell titled Milton and Kay Buell T3 [Tape Three].
SIDE A 00:00:06 -- 00:01:17
Discussion about Dogtown and the railroad; railroad, Dogtown.

SIDE A 00:01:17 -- 00:10:33
Discussion about Charlottetown, the railroad, and a story about buying a railway car and making it into a cottage; Queen's Hotel, Charlottetown, railway, CN.

SIDE A 00:10:33 -- 00:13:30
Discussion about businesses along the harbour front; power plant, railway.

SIDE A 00:13:30 -- 00:18:20
Discussion about his family's land, which used to be where Wendy's in Charlottetown is now; Charlottetown, Weeks, bathing houses, the Butts, Davis and Frasers, trestle, 1928.

SIDE A 00:18:20 -- 00:22:06
Discussion about various topics, including digging trains out of the deep snow, the old Forum, Maritime Electric and oil tanks; deep snow, stuck trains, snowstorms, 1928, gas works, Maritime Electric, oil tanks, the Butts.

***The remainder of the tape, SIDE A 00:22:06 -- 00:31:54, is blank.
Tape ends at 00:31:54.