Audio file
Contributors
Researcher: MacKay, Paul
Audio engineer: MacKay, Paul
Date Recorded
2003-03-22
Date Digitized
2010-09-12
Abstract
This is an interview with Ruby Mae Chappell (nee Gamester) of North Granville, P.E.I. In this interview Ruby talks about her family, her grandparents death in an accident, trains, Breadalbane, traveling, cars, the Spanish Flu, home remedies, doctors, Christmas, life on the family farm, horses, church, peddlers and delivery men, house parties, her first job, the South Granville Church, and various other topics.
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Physical Location
Held by Reg "Dutch" Thompson
Duration
01:03:48
Model
1 1 Item in Collection
Transcript
SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:06:39
Discussion about her family, with a story about her grandparents dying in an accident at Christmas; accidents, trains, Emerald Junction, John MacKenzie, Barbara Corbett, Barbara MacKenzie, 1914, Christmas, Gamester.

SIDE A 00:06:39 -- 00:12:22
Discussion about Breadalbane, with mention of Margate and Kensington; traveling, Kensington, Margate, shopping, Breadalbane, Warren's Hotel, James Warren, Ivan Kennedy, Dr. Murchison, Pomroy Murray, movies, power plants, railway stations, skating, Bruce Yeo, station agents, Palmroy Murray, Graham Gamester.

SIDE A 00:12:22 -- 00:14:34
Discussion about trips to Summerside and Charlottetown, with mention of her first ride in a car; traveling, cars, games, Summerside.

SIDE A 00:14:34 -- 00:16:18
Discussion about various topics including the Spanish Flu; Spanish Flu, Ed Ross, quarantines, chewing tobacco, Dr. Bouyer.

SIDE A 00:16:18 -- 00:20:01
Discussion about home remedies and Dr. Beer; home remedies, goose grease, turpentine, Dr. Beer, house calls.

SIDE A 00:20:01 -- 00:21:39
Discussion about Christmas; Christmas, presents, dolls.

SIDE A 00:21:39 -- 00:24:00
Discussion about life on the family farm and horses; horses, chores, harrowing, courting.

SIDE A 00:24:00 -- 00:26:11
Discussion about various topics including blacksmiths, two men in Breadalbane with wooden legs, and the Harvest Excursion; Doc Power, blacksmiths, Allan Cummings, Roddie MacKay, wooden legs, Harvest Excursion, Calvin Gamester.

SIDE A 00:26:11 -- 00:28:57
Discussion about various topics including church, walking, and the Devil's Punch Bowl; Devil's Punch Bowl, walking, church.

SIDE A 00:28:57 -- 00:31:48
Discussion about tough times and flour bag clothes; flour bag clothes, tough times, flour bags, potato picking, wages, cleaning, housework, self sufficiency.

SIDE A ends at 00:31:48.
SIDE B 00:31:54 -- 00:34:40
Discussion about Kennedy's store in Breadalbane; Kennedy's store, Breadalbane, stores, Ivan Kennedy, undertakers, raspberries, coffins, bartering.

SIDE B 00:34:40 -- 00:37:25
Discussion about tough times continues, with mention of Pomroy Murray's ice house; self sufficiency, tough times, jam, strawberries, cooking, food, ice houses, Pomroy Murray, blue potatoes, pork, ice.

SIDE B 00:37:25 -- 00:40:00
Discussion about delivery men and peddlers; Roddie Nicholson, Hector MacKenzie, peddlers, Bob MacLeod, eggs, delivery men, egg man, humpty-dumpties, peddlers, Thomas Michael, Frank Reid, express wagons.

SIDE B 00:40:00 -- 00:46:35
Discussion about her life in Breadalbane, with mention of Gaelic, school, and her first job; Breadalbane, school, Gaelic, Mac Buchanan, Ray Dixon, Raymond Dixon, Kennedy's store, wages, Ivan Kennedy.

SIDE B 00:46:35 -- 00:48:12
Discussion about her first time off the Island and her honeymoon; traveling, honeymoons.

SIDE B 00:48:12 -- 00:49:30
Discussion about the deep snow in 1923; 1923, snow, deep snow, breaking the roads.

SIDE B 00:49:30 -- 00:50:16
Discussion about milk; milk, cheese factories, Emerald, slovens, Jim Dixon, milkman.

SIDE B 00:50:16 -- 00:52:09
Discussion about the first radio she remembers and house parties; radio, Alf MacEwan, house parties, fiddlers, Alf Parsons.

SIDE B 00:52:09 -- 00:53:18
Discussion about Christmas continues; Christmas, Christmas dinner, geese, plum pudding, taffy, fudge.

SIDE B 00:53:18 -- 00:55:09
Discussion about wool and knitting; wool, clothes, spinning, knitting, homemade clothes, dyes.

SIDE B 00:55:09 -- 00:56:11
Discussion about women's work and changes in health care; health care, women's work.

SIDE B 00:56:11 -- 00:57:25
Discussion about the telephone and electricity; telephones, electricity, 1977, 1970s, power.

SIDE B 00:57:25 -- 00:58:24
Discussion about working at Kirkwood; Kirkwood, Carl Burke.

SIDE B 00:58:24 -- 01:01:09
Discussion about Elton Woodside and the South Granville Church; Elton Woodside, South Granville, South Granville Church, organs, Rev. Donald Nicholson, Dorothy MacLure, Robert Corbett, Scots.

SIDE B 01:01:09 -- 01:02:58
Discussion about quiet Sundays and her family; quiet Sundays, Sundays, cooking .

SIDE B 01:02:58 -- 01:03:48
Ruby takes a telephone call.
Tape ends at 01:03:48.