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Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2000-11-29
Date Digitized
2010-08-26
Abstract
This is an interview with Georgie Helen MacBeth (nee Dingwell) of Montague and Forrest Hill, P.E.I. In this interview Georgie talks about Lucy Maud Montgomery, her mother, school, her family, cars, homemade goods, home remedies, the family farm, Christmas, cholera, Charlottetown, Prince of Wales College, teaching, church, entertainment, transportation, traveling, horses, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:35:04
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:07:33
Discussion about Lucy Maud Montgomery and Georgie's mother; The Quartet, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Ellen Rogerson, Nellie Rogerson.

SIDE A 00:07:33 -- 00:10:24
Discussion about her birth and her brother's service in WWI; Midgell, Dr. McLaughlin, WWI, WWI vets.

SIDE A 00:10:24 -- 00:12:52
Discussion about school, deep snow, and Prince of Wales College; school, snow, deep snow, Prince of Wales College, 1894.

SIDE A 00:12:52 -- 00:14:51
Discussion about the first cars and airplanes she saw; H. D. MacEwan, cars, airplanes, 1926.

SIDE A 00:14:51 -- 00:18:27
Discussion about her mother's homemade goods, shopping, and home remedies; homemade goods, groceries, home remedies, Ida MacEachern, wool, Cox's Store, cod liver oil, underwear, sulfur and molasses, Harry Cox, shopping.

SIDE A 00:18:27 -- 00:19:19
Discussion about the family farm, milk, and eggs; milk, eggs, cheese factories, egg circles.

SIDE A 00:19:19 -- 00:20:44
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, Christmas dinner.

SIDE A 00:20:44 -- 00:24:56
Discussion about her siblings and a cholera epidemic in 1917; 1917, cholera, epidemics.

SIDE A 00:24:56 -- 00:27:17
Discussion about boarding in Charlottetown while attending Prince of Wales College; Prince of Wales College, boarding houses, boarding, 1925,
SIDE A 00:27:17 -- 00:28:33
Discussion about her first trip to Charlottetown and her first ride on a train; traveling, trains.

SIDE A 00:28:33 -- 00:29:48
Discussion about Sundays; quiet Sundays, Sundays, church.

SIDE A 00:29:48 -- 00:32:30
Discussion about her father and his horses; James Dingwell, Battersea, horses.

SIDE A 00:32:30 -- 00:33:43
Discussion about her brother's car; cars.

SIDE A 00:33:43 -- 00:35:03
Discussion about radio, music, and house parties; radio, music, house parties.

SIDE A 00:35:03 -- 00:40:19
Discussion about teaching; teachers, teaching, teacher's salary, Sadie Acorn, Bridgetown.

SIDE A 00:40:19 -- 00:41:06
Discussion about the Halifax Explosion; Halifax Explosion.

SIDE A 00:41:06 -- 00:43:30
Discussion about the Harvest Excursion and family in the United States; Harvest Excursion.

SIDE A 00:43:30 -- 00:47:25
Discussion about teaching continues; teaching, 1930s, WWII, Mr. Hines, Boyd Shaw.

SIDE A ends at 00:47:25.
SIDE B 00:47:33 -- 00:52:44
Discussion about various topics including movies, changes over the years, and her first time off the Island; theaters, theatres, movies, traveling.

SIDE B 00:52:44 -- 00:55:30
Discussion about horse races and the church in Marie; horse races, Marie, churches.

SIDE B 00:55:30 -- 00:58:21
Discussion about seamstresses and peddlers; seamstresses, peddlers, Tarbush, milliners, Libby Webster, Ruby Battersea, pack peddlers.

SIDE B 00:58:21 -- 01:02:20
Discussion about her grandfather and family; George Henry Dingwell, mailman, Governor Dingwell, Walter Dingwell.

SIDE B 01:02:20 -- 01:03:29
Discussion about starch and cheese factories; Henry MacCormack, cheese factories, Bridgetown, starch factories.

SIDE B 01:03:29 -- 01:06:04
Discussion about potatoes, apples, and mussel mud; potatoes, apples, apple varieties, mussel mud, apple orchards.

***The remainder of the tape, 01:06:04 -- 01:35:04, is blank.
Tape ends at 01:35:04.