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Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-07-08
Abstract
This is an interview with Ralph Matheson. In this interview Ralph talks about milk, cheese, New Glasgow, blacksmiths, firewood, doctors, midwives, thrashing, horses, tractors, cattle, the 1930s, peddlers, Christmas, and various other topics.
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Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:22
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1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:12:51
Milk haulers, the Cheese factory, butter, milk separators, cheese makers, sheep, carding mills, New Glasgow stores, Wheatley River blacksmith Herb Andrew, and his uncle dying while sawing firewood; milk, cheese factories, butter, cheese, sheep, carding mills, New Glasgow, stores, Wheatley River, blacksmiths, Herb Andrew, accidents.

SIDE A 00:12:51 -- 00:21:20
Being born in the family home and being delivered by Dr. Stevenson, Mrs. Green the midwife, Dr. Honeywell of Hunter River who operated on kitchen tables, his grandmother Matheson, and being sick as a baby; doctors, midwives, operations, childbirth, Dr. Stevenson, Green, Dr. Honeywell, Hunter River, Matheson.

SIDE A 00:21:20 -- 00:31:38
Old thrashers, Winsloe's landlords, bushing the ice, Milford Cudmore's store, MacDonald's orchards, the MacMillan family, and Clydesdale horses; horses, Clydesdales, thrashers, thrashing, Winsloe, landlords, bushing the ice, Milford Cudmore, Cudmore's store, MacDonald, orchards, MacMillan.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:38.
SIDE B 00:31:45 -- 00:46:25
Trading horses for tractors, his first tractor, his father feeding the cattle and Ralph milking, their record cow, 8 tonnes of milk, different varieties of cattle, milk fever, ROP records and being the best in Canada; tractors, horses, cattle, milking, milk.

SIDE B 00:46:25 -- 01:03:22
Feed for the cows, the Wheatley River gristmill, the Raleigh man, pack peddlers, fish peddlers, Christmas visiting, the Market Square, shipping pigs, the Depression years, prices, and his first tractor he bought at an auction in 1950; tractors, 1950, cows, cattle, cattle feed, Wheatley River, gristmills, Raleigh man, pack peddlers, fish peddlers, Christmas, visiting, Market Square, shipping, pigs, 1930s, Great Depression, prices.

Tape ends at 01:03:22.