Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2003-01-14
Date Digitized
2010-08-24
Abstract
This is an interview with Viola Jean Fraser (nee Huggan) of New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. In this interview Viola talks about her family, dances, Fen Thompson, home remedies, horses, school, Christmas, cars, radio, Avondale, home children, doctors, stores, quiet Sundays, her mother and her homemade goods, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:27
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:05 -- 00:02:58
Discussion about her family; Isabel Cameron, David Huggan, Harriet Olding, Mary Anna MacGregor, Daniel MacGregor.

SIDE A 00:02:58 -- 00:03:59
Discussion about Luther MacDonald's Dance Hall; Luther MacDonald's Dance Hall, Luther MacDonald.

SIDE A 00:03:59 -- 00:07:30
Discussion about Fen Thompson and Tilda Oliver; Fen Thompson, Tilda Oliver.

SIDE A 00:07:30 -- 00:17:35
Discussion about the Huggan family; Huggan, Boston, Henry Huggan, Clarence Huggan, mechanics, Milton Huggan, 1880s, Ira Huggan, diphtheria, 1890s, Mary Jane Huggan, Carmena Huggan, Ella Ross, Dr. Alexander Ross, Dr. Ross, Nettie Thompson.

SIDE A 00:17:35 -- 00:19:00
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, bark syrup.

SIDE A 00:19:00 -- 00:19:57
Discussion about the Thompson farm; Nettie Thompson, George Thompson.

SIDE A 00:19:57 -- 00:22:07
Discussion about fish and meat peddlers, with mention of fishing and their family farm; fish peddlers, meat peddlers.

SIDE A 00:22:07 -- 00:23:26
Discussion about her father and his horses; horses, sleighs, driving horses, sleigh bells.

SIDE A 00:23:26 -- 00:25:12
Discussion about Avondale School, with mention of the Liel family; school, Avondale School, William Liel, dancers.

SIDE A 00:25:12 -- 00:27:27
Discussion about her birthday and Christmas; 1912, Christmas, Christmas trees, presents.

SIDE A 00:27:27 -- 00:28:24
Discussion about school continues; school, teachers, Gladys Huggan.

SIDE A 00:28:24 -- 00:31:26
Discussion about Christmas continues; goose grease, Christmas, Christmas dinner, home remedies, bananas, Santa Claus.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:26.
SIDE B 00:31:59 -- 00:35:19
Discussion about WWI, the Halifax Explosion, and the Spanish Flu, with mention of scarlet fever; WWI, Halifax Explosion, Spanish Flu, Avondale, scarlet fever.

SIDE B 00:35:19 -- 00:36:32
Discussion about Avondale; Avondale, Hattie's Cemetery.

SIDE B 00:36:32 -- 00:43:44
Discussion about home children, Avondale, and Dr. Ross; Eva Lyon, home children, Ethel Robertson, Dr. Ross, doctors, doctor fees, Avondale, Ella Ross, Geordie Johnson, apples.

SIDE B 00:43:44 -- 00:45:39
Discussion about flour mills; Stewart's mill, flour mills, flour, shorts.

SIDE B 00:45:39 -- 00:46:30
Discussion about blacksmiths; blacksmiths, Jack MacDonald, horseshoeing.

SIDE B 00:46:30 -- 00:47:29
Discussion about groceries; Archie MacPhee, groceries, bartering.

SIDE B 00:47:29 -- 00:48:40
Discussion about Sobey's; Sobey's, meat peddlers, 1944, Stellarton.

SIDE B 00:48:40 -- 00:49:52
Discussion about their cream and their farm; cream.

SIDE B 00:49:52 -- 00:51:09
Discussion about her birth at home; midwives.

SIDE B 00:51:09 -- 00:52:38
Discussion about their first car; cars, touring cars, Clarence Huggan, 1917.

SIDE B 00:52:38 -- 00:55:11
Discussion about their first radio and her father's fiddling; radio, fiddlers, Milton Huggan, music, dances.

SIDE B 00:55:11 -- 00:56:45
Discussion about quiet Sundays; quiet Sundays, Sundays, Presbyterians, Willie MacPhee.

SIDE B 00:56:45 -- 01:03:27
Discussion about her mother and her homemade goods; homemade goods, homemade clothes, flour bags, dressmakers, wool, drugget, knitting, hooking, Mary Anna MacGregor, Mary Anna Huggan, underwear.

Tape ends at 01:03:27.