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Date Recorded
Unknown year
Date Digitized
2010-07-09
Abstract
This is an interview with Ausline and Dorothy Smith. In this interview the Smith Sisters talk about their parents, midwives, doctors, family, skating and hockey, Christmas, Wheatley River, cars, school, home remedies, postal workers, potato picking, WWII, courting, marriage, and various other topics.
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Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:28
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1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:00 -- 00:11:51
Dorothy talks about her father Herb the mailman, his route, her mother Georgina Waye, Mrs. Matheson the midwife, her doctor Randolf Murchison, when she was born, her uncle going to WWI, notes about herself, and her brother; Georgine Waye, mailman, Matheson, midwives, Dr. Murchison, Randolf Murchison, WWI, Herb Smith.

SIDE A 00:11:51 -- 00:19:02
Dorothy talks about skating and hockey at the Wheatley River rink, her husband being the goalie for the Weatley River Stars, her church, time off school for picking potatoes, snow, Prince of Wales College, changes, and the first car she saw; Wheatley River, rinks, hockey, goalies, Wheatley River Stars, hockey teams, hockey players, chruch, picking potatoes, snow, Princes of Wales College, cars.

SIDE A 00:19:02 -- 00:31:39
Dorothy talks about Christmas, how she met her husband, playing hockey, how she didn't go to town much, the Wheatley River general stores, living on the farm, their honeymoon, working on the farm, home remedies, her first trip off PEI, house parties, her favorite teacher, and courting; courting, teachers, hockey, hockey players, Christmas, Wheatley River, general stores, honeymoons, home remedies, traveling, house parties.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:39.
SIDE B 00:31:53 -- 00:43:43
Ausline talks about her name, her mother, her father's mail route, her school, picking potatoes, where she worked, moving to Ontario, working for the war effort making explosives and TNT; TNT, explosives, WWII, moving, picking potatoes, school, mailman.

SI0DE B 00:43:43 -- 00:54:51
Ausline talks about dances, living near a POW camp, meeting her husband after the war in Charlottetown, courting, getting married and hair dying; hair dying, POW camps, dances, WWII, Charlottetown, courting, marriage.

SIDE B 00:54:51 -- 01:03:28
Ausline talks about how when she was married she gave up her job as a hair dresser, working as a cook, seeing the Hindenburg, home remedies, her grandmother, visiting friends, and fires; marriage, women's work, hairdressers, cooking, Hindenburg, home remedies, visiting, fires.

Tape ends at 01:03:28.