SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:00:34
Discussion about his family begins; family, 1919, railroad, Souris Line Road.
SIDE A 00:00:34 -- 00:02:55
Discussion about the last bear on P.E.I.; George Leslie, Bernard Leslie, bear skin, bear grease, Souris Line Road, black bear, 1926.
SIDE A 00:02:56 -- 00:04:46
Discussion about his family continues, with mention mills; Souris River, Jack Leslie, Sandy Leslie, Souris Line Road, 1868, miller, mills, gas engine, International upright engine.
SIDE A 00:04:46 -- 00:06:32
Discussion about general stores and horses and sleighs; Matthew and MacLean's, general stores, Souris, horse and sleigh.
SIDE A 00:06:32 -- 00:08:50
Discussion about fires in Souris and train stations; 1958, fire, round house, train, train stations, railroad, Souris, Frank Whelan, freight shed.
SIDE A 00:08:51 -- 00:11:52
Discussion about his father serving in WWI; 1920, Vimy Ridge, Souris, gunner, army, poison gas.
SIDE A 00:11:52 -- 00:13:13
Discussion about his father working as a section foreman; wages, section foreman, railroad, CN, farmer, 1920.
SIDE A 00:13:13 -- 00:14:37
Discussion about fish in Souris; fish, Souris, cod, Gillan's, hank, bung, digby, hake, herring.
SIDE A 00:14:37 -- 00:16:23
Discussion about his father's work continues; railroad, railroad gang, extra gang, railroad jobs.
SIDE A 00:16:23 -- 00:17:25
Discussion about working as a section man on the railroad; railroad, rails, ballast.
SIDE A 00:17:25 -- 00:23:50
Discussion about rails and railroad ties; creosote, mauls, railroad, railroad ties, steel, Elmira, rails, cedar.
SIDE A 00:23:50 -- 00:25:10
Discussion about cutting railroad rails; cutting rails, rails.
SIDE A 00:25:10 -- 00:27:15
Discussion about hard work and walking; hard work, walking.
SIDE A 00:27:15 -- 00:29:01
Discussion about trains going off the tracks; accidents, replacers, railroad.
SIDE A 00:29:01 -- 00:31:41
Discussion about a plow flipping over on the railroad; railroad, accident, plow, snowstorm, wing plow.
SIDE A ends at 00:31:41.
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SIDE B 00:32:40 -- 00:34:18
Discussion about how a plow on a train works and snowstorms; snowstorms, railroad, wing plow, train, rotary plow, Souris, Riley Junction.
SIDE B 00:34:23 -- 00:39:10
Discussion about trainmen and starting out on the railroad; Vernon MacKinnon, foreman, railroad, trainmen, 1945, bunk cars, wages, steam engines, living cars, family, Andrew Leslie.
SIDE B 00:39:10 -- 00:41:39
Discussion about different local trains; steam engine, Royalty Junction, Charlottetown, Borden, #39 train, #40 train, The Pig's Eye, Murray River.
SIDE B 00:41:39 -- 00:45:05
Discussion about the train stations in Murray Harbour and Murray River, cleaners, trains stuck in the snow, and train numbers; Emerald Junction, water tanks, Hunter River, cleaners, Murray Harbour.
***Tape appears to have stopped at 00:42:28.
SIDE B 00:45:05 -- 00:48:05
Discussion about a train accident at Harper's Cutting; train plows, Harper, Harper's Cutting, freight train.
SIDE B 00:48:05 -- 00:51:39
Discussion about train freight and stations; train stations, Ivan Kennedy, mussel mud, St. Peter's, potatoes, Cardigan, coal, railroad, freight.
SIDE B 00:51:39 -- 00:54:57
Discussion about his railroad watch and the importance of time; railroad watch, time, railroad, railroad schedule.
SIDE B 00:54:57 -- 00:59:10
Discussion about the first diesel train engines; diesel train engines, train engines, oil.
SIDE B 00:59:10 -- 01:00:12
Discussion about taking the train to Alberta; 1976, Alberta, train.
SIDE B 01:00:12 -- 01:01:10
Discussion about the end of the railroad on P.E.I.; 1989, railroad,
SIDE B 01:01:11 -- 01:02:16
Discussion about the railroad union and wages; railway, union, wages, Brotherhood of Maintenance of Way Employees.
SIDE B 01:02:16 -- 01:03:38
Discussion about his best memory; railway, railroad, steam engine, Sinclair Paquet.
Tape ends at 01:03:38.
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