***The audio from 00:00:05 -- 00:00:55 is a recording of music which appears to be unrelated to the interview.
SIDE A 00:00:55 -- 00:01:41
Brief discussion about WWI and the Spanish Flu; WWI, 1913, 1918, Spanish Flu.
SIDE A 00:01:41 -- 00:05:05
Discussion about working on working on Herb Ramsay's farm continues, with mention of working on George McGoughan's farm; Harold Stewart, Herb Ramsay, farming, wages, food, George McGoughan, cars, Chevrolet.
SIDE A 00:05:05 -- 00:06:09
Brief discussion about the first cars he remembers; Model-T Ford, cars, Jack Bassett.
SIDE A 00:06:09 -- 00:08:08
A story about hidden boat rum; boat rum, Jack Bassett, rum, Darnley, County Line Road, bootlegging.
SIDE A 00:08:08 -- 00:09:30
Discussion about local bootleggers; John D. MacKay, bootlegging, prohibition, rum, Andy Perry, rum prices.
SIDE A 00:09:30 -- 00:13:00
Discussion about his work as a blacksmith; blacksmith, Johnny Peakes, Victor Peakes, Malpeque, church gates, Peakes.
SIDE A 00:13:00 -- 00:14:12
Brief discussion about Johnny Peakes from Lower Malpeque; Johnny Peakes, mailman, Lower Malpeque, mail, breaking the road.
SIDE A 00:14:12 -- 00:15:13
Discussion about snowstorms and snow that was 20' high; snow, snowstorms.
SIDE A 00:15:13 -- 00:15:50
Discussion about working with the Peakes brothers continues; Peakes, Johnny Peakes, Victor Peakes, blacksmith, Hart Abbott.
SIDE A 00:15:50 -- 00:16:50
Discussion about the first radios; Chapman, radios, Baltic.
SIDE A 00:16:50 -- 00:18:45
Discussion about farming, tractors, and combines; tractors, combines, farming, farming machinery, acerage.
SIDE A 00:18:45 -- 00:27:25
Discussion about work he did as a blacksmith with the Peakes brothers, with mention of horseshoeing, tiring wheels, roping horses, and sleighs; horseshoeing, blacksmith, Peakes, welding, metal, tiring wheels, sleighs, horseshoe prices, Johnny Peake, iron, roping horses, 1920s.
SIDE A 00:27:25 -- 00:29:49
Discussion about his blacksmith shop in Sea View and the end of his work as a blacksmith; Sea View, Murphy's store, blacksmith, Stanford Pickering, Roland Pickering, 1940.
SIDE A 00:29:49 -- 00:31:51
Discussion about working on Johnny Cousins' farm in 1940; 1940, Johnny Cousins, wages, farming, hired man.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:51.
SIDE B 00:31:01 -- 00:36:36
Discussion about other blacksmiths in the area, with a story about a man who drowned; Owen McGoughan, Johnny Peakes, Ed Burt, 1935, drowning, blacksmiths, RCMP, Mr. Spencer.
SIDE B 00:36:36 -- 00:38:03
Discussion about Ed Hickey; Emmit Hickey, Ed Hickey, blind.
SIDE B 00:38:03 -- 00:39:02
Brief discussion about pack peddlers; pack peddlers, peddlers.
SIDE B 00:39:02 -- 00:39:40
Brief discussion about blacksmith supplies; Kensington, blacksmith coal, shoes, nails, Malpeque store.
SIDE B 00:39:40 -- 00:41:15
Discussion about western horses, with a story about Jack Bassett buying wild horses; McNeil, wild horses, western horses, Jack Bassett, horses.
SIDE B 00:41:15 -- 00:43:06
Discussion about trading horses for tractors and his first tractor; tractors, tradings, horses, Oliver 77.
SIDE B 00:43:06 -- 00:47:15
Discussion about the tools and equipment from his blacksmith shop, with mention of the Peakes brothers; anvils, blacksmith shop, blacksmith tools, Peakes, Johnny Peakes, Victor Peakes.
SIDE B 00:47:15 -- 00:48:18
Brief discussion about his family and ancestors; Abbott, MacKay, fire.
SIDE B 00:48:18 -- 00:51:05
Discussion about tansy tea, liniments, and home remedies; vinegar, tansy tea, cures, cows, horses, Sea View, home remedies, arthritis.
SIDE B 00:51:05 -- 00:52:14
Discussion about windmills; windmills.
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SIDE B 00:52:15 -- 00:57:26
Discussion about sleighs and wagons, with mention of John Marks, Lee Moose, and a story about his father's horse breaking a wagon; wood sleighs, Baltic, Bob Clark, yellow birch, John Marks, Margate, sleighs, Marks sleigh, sleigh hearse, wagons, horses, wagon prices, Lee Moose.
SIDE B 00:00:57:26 -- 00:58:41
Brief discussion about horses and courting, with mention of moving pictures; horses, courting, dances, Kensington, moving pictures.
SIDE B 00:58:41 -- 01:00:37
Discussion about traveling on the train; train, Kensington Station, livery stable, livery stable prices, train fare.
SIDE B 01:00:37 -- 01:02:58
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, Santa Claus, presents, Christmas dinner, goose, Christmas tree.
SIDE B 01:02:58 -- 01:03:55
Brief discussion about Sundays and religion; Sundays, United Church, Summerside.
Tape ends at 01:03:55.
