Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2006-11-30
Date Digitized
2010-09-21
Abstract
This is an interview with Ella Willis (nee Edwards) of Hampshire, P.E.I. In this interview Ella talks about Charlottetown, music lessons, the railway, WWI, school, the Spanish Flu, snow, her work as a nurse, Hunter River, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:00
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:02 -- 00:04:55
Discussion about various topics including mussel mud, and her first trip to Charlottetown, and taking the train to get music lessons; sleigh bells, mussel mud, traveling, sleigh rides, North River, bushed ice, music lesson, Lillian MacKenzie, music teachers.

SIDE A 00:04:55 -- 00:10:03
Discussion about Charlottetown; Charlottetown, Market Square, stores, Dizzy Block, bartering, banana splits.

SIDE A 00:10:03 -- 00:12:25
Discussion about WWI; WWI, John Sanderson, WWI veterans, 105th Battalion.

SIDE A 00:12:25 -- 00:16:08
Discussion about the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, 1919, William Watts.

SIDE A 00:16:08 -- 00:26:32
Discussion about school; school, Hampshire School, Kingston School, walking, teachers, school subjects, Latin, concerts, school inspectors, Howard Court, John Edwards, Mary Edwards.

SIDE A 00:26:32 -- 00:29:14
Discussion about deep snow, the stove at school, and telephones; deep snow, snow, 1923, sleighs, stoves, telephones.

SIDE A 00:29:14 -- 00:31:32
Discussion about the railway and her father's business; railway, Watt's Cutting, cuttings, Wesley Stewart, shipping.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:32.
SIDE B 00:31:37 -- 00:32:52
Discussion about her father's business continues; railway, shipping, shingles, coal.

SIDE B 00:32:52 -- 00:40:28
Discussion about her beginnings as a nurse; nurses, nursing, 1933, Sherwood Hospital, PEI Hospital, doctors, Dr. Ira Yeo, Dr. Yeo, Old PEI Hospital, Matron Mair, Dr. Wendel MacKenzie.

SIDE B 00:40:28 -- 00:41:40
Discussion about electricity; electricity, 1920s, Hampshire.

SIDE B 00:41:40 -- 00:57:46
Discussion about nursing continues; nursing, nurses, wages, childbirth, Dr. George Dewar, Dr. Dewar, diphtheria, mumps, Mildred Thompson, doctors, women's work, John Eldon Green, Sherwood, twins, gender roles, health care, medicare.

SIDE B 00:57:46 -- 01:03:00
Discussion about the origin of Hunter River; Hunter River, Hunter's River, Noye's Store.

Tape ends at 01:03:00.