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Date Recorded
1996-04-26
Date Digitized
2010-06-21
Abstract
This interview is with Margaret Matilda "Hilda" MacDonald (nee MacPhee) of Clearspring and Selkirk, P.E.I. In this interview Hilda talks about the Halifax Explosion, her family, ghosts, Selkirk, Christmas, horses, homemade soap and butter, trading eggs for groceries, music and dances, fiddlers, rum running and moonshine, Captain Dicks, cars, radio, Dr. Gus, blacksmiths and sleighs, her father's funeral, pack peddlers, and traveling to Charlottetown.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:41
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:02:47
Discussion about midwives, the Halifax Explosion, tough times, and WWI; midwives, Halifax Explosion, WWI.

SIDE A 00:02:47 -- 00:07:49
Discussion about her family, with mention of her father's storytelling and a haunted house; Selkirk, MacPhee, Kelly, walking, haunted house, storytelling, devil, Cheverie, ghost stories.

SIDE A 00:07:49 -- 00:08:51
Discussion about the healing spring in Selkirk; Selkirk, healing spring, Curtis Road.

SIDE A 00:08:51 -- 00:10:47
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, presents, Christmas dinner, toys, goose.

SIDE A 00:10:47 -- 00:11:44
Discussion about horses; driving horses, horses, scuffling, chores.

SIDE A 00:11:44 -- 00:13:06
Discussion about making soap and washing clothes; homemade soap, washing clothes.

SIDE A 00:13:06 -- 00:14:56
Discussion about eggs, butter, and blueberries; eggs, butter, blueberries, egg trading, groceries, homemade butter, cream.

SIDE A 00:14:56 -- 00:17:50
Discussion about lobster canneries; lobster canneries, lobster.

SIDE A 00:17:50 -- 00:23:26
Discussion about Sundays, playing music, and nicknames; Sundays, music, card games, nicknames, John Alec Ronald, fiddle, fire, house parties, musicians, fiddlers.

SIDE A 00:23:26 -- 00:27:11
Discussion about music she played and where she played, with mention of special trains and dancing; music, fiddlers, music venues, Indian River, tea parties, dancing, bagpipes.

SIDE A 00:27:11 -- 00:31:45
Discussion about fiddlers and dances; fiddlers, Jim Simmons, MacPhee, Alan MacAdam, Sandy Carter, Josie McInnis, dances, parties, house parties.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:45.
SIDE B 00:31:57 -- 00:33:49
Discussion about fiddlers continues, with mention of Hilda playing the organ; fiddlers, fiddle, organ, pianos, Angus MacKinnon.

SIDE B 00:33:49 -- 00:36:36
Discussion about fights and moonshine; fights, moonshine, potash.

SIDE B 00:36:36 -- 00:48:46
Discussion about bootlegging her husband did, Captain Dicks and the Nellie J. Banks, and other rum runners; Captain Nelson Dicks, Captain Dicks, rum running, prohibition, Dr. Gus, Dr. MacMillian, Nellie J. Banks, mother ship, rum runners, thieves, RCMP, Jim MacLean, Charlottetown, Sam Hardy, Chester MacDonald.

SIDE B 00:48:46 -- 00:50:32
Discussion about cars, Frank Wendell, and fiddle tunes; cars, Frank Wendell, fiddle tunes, music.

SIDE B 00:50:32 -- 00:52:00
Discussion about radio; radio, Don Messer, George MacPhee.

SIDE B 00:52:00 -- 00:54:00
Discussion about blacksmiths and Francis sleighs; blacksmiths, Francis sleighs, sleighs, Hughie MacPhee, Selkirk.

SIDE B 00:54:00 -- 00:57:10
Discussion about Dr. Gus and a story about sewing a man's legs back on; Dr. Gus, MacCormac.

SIDE B 00:57:10 -- 01:00:20
Discussion about her father's funeral; funerals, wakes, Roddie MacPhee, Roddie Joe's Reel.

SIDE B 01:00:20 -- 01:03:41
Discussion about pack peddlers, traveling to Charlottetown, stores in Selkirk, and rationing during WWII; pack peddlers, Raleigh man, Raleigh's Liniment, Watkins man, trains, Charlottetown, MacAdams, Selkirk, potatoes, rationing, WWII.

Tape ends at 01:03:41.
***Tape ends mid-sentence.