SIDE A 00:00:04 -- 00:05:49
Discussion about her childhood and going to school, with mention of picking potatoes; school, teachers, Stella MacDonald, Annie MacMillan, potato picking.
SIDE A 00:05:49 -- 00:07:58
Discussion about her family background; Mary Ross, Rev. Donald Nicholson, Polly, Nicholson.
SIDE A 00:07:58 -- 00:11:26
Discussion about doctors and midwives; Dr. Martin, 1913, doctors, midwives, Dr. Frank Martin, Sadie MacLean.
SIDE A 00:11:26 -- 00:14:09
Discussion about home remedies; home remedies, goose grease, sulfur and molasses, cod liver oil, tansy.
SIDE A 00:14:09 -- 00:16:47
Discussion about WWI and her uncle Everett MacEachern, with mention of a bad flu in 1924; WWI, 1924, Everett MacEachern,
SIDE A 00:16:47 -- 00:26:15
Discussion about her great grandfather and her grandparents; Donald Campbell, blacksmiths, Jessie Campbell, John Nicholson, Tom the Peddler, wakes, undertakers, 1920, Norman Gillis, hearses, Charles MacEachern, Mary Jane MacEachern, Mary Jane Patton.
SIDE A 00:26:15 -- 00:27:36
Discussion about her mother; Ethel MacEachern, cooking, food.
SIDE A 00:27:36 -- 00:28:25
Discussion about her the gristmill; MacRae's mill, gristmills.
SIDE A 00:28:25 -- 00:31:42
A story about going to the dentist; dentists, Cassius Clay, livery stables, Dr. Green.
SIDE A 00:31:42 -- 00:37:12
Discussion about her father, horses, and traveling; John Nicholson, horses, traveling, ice travel.
SIDE A 00:37:12 -- 00:38:56
Discussion about appendicitis and going to the doctor; operations, 1932, appendicitis.
SIDE A 00:38:56 -- 00:41:55
Discussion about lobster fishing and boarding; lobster fishing, lobster, Herbie Gillis, lobster factories, fertilizer, lobster prices, 1924, Eileen MacPherson, Dan MacRae, board, boarding, room and board, 1947, Olive Finlayson.
SIDE A 00:41:55 -- 00:45:03
A story about a bat in the house and ghost stories; bats, ghosts, ghost stories, Charlie Nicholson.
SIDE A 00:45:03 -- 00:47:27
Discussion about sleighs and sleigh bells; sleigh bells, jaunting sleigh, Francis sleighs, sleighs, 1948, traveling.
SIDE A ends at 00:47:27.
SIDE B 00:47:35 -- 00:48:06
Discussion about sleighs continues; sleighs, traveling, 1948.
SIDE B 00:48:06 -- 00:52:01
Discussion about going to Charlottetown, with mention of appendicitis and stories about Hector Ross; traveling, appendicitis, Hector Ross.
SIDE B 00:52:01 -- 00:55:28
Discussion about Sundays, church, and her grandfather John Nicholson; Sundays, church, Sunday school, John Nicholson.
SIDE B 00:55:28 -- 01:03:30
Discussion about life on the family farm; chores, soap, meat, ice houses, eggs, firewood, homemade soap, ice, food, salmon.
SIDE B 01:03:30 -- 01:07:31
Discussion about stores in Belle River; Compton's Store, Riley's Store, fires, Jack Compton, Belle River, 1929.
SIDE B 01:07:31 -- 01:11:02
Discussion about going to business college in Charlottetown and working at Holman's; L. B. Miller, Charlottetown, 1931, boarding houses, Holman's, Toyland, wages, college, 1930s, Earnest Cameron.
SIDE B 01:11:02 -- 01:12:20
Discussion about marsh hay and berries; mussel mud, marsh hay, berries.
SIDE B 01:12:20 -- 01:14:40
Discussion about general stores, with mention of chewing tobacco and store accounts; D. J. Riley, Willy MacKenzie, general stores, 1929, twist tobacco, chewing tobacco, store accounts, store credit.
SIDE B 01:14:40 -- 01:30:38
Discussion about working as a Telephone Central operator, with mention of her marriage and her husband's work; Telephone Central, 1959, phone operator, weddings, honeymoons, Neil MacKinnon, 1947, Eldon, telephone rings, electricity, wages, 1951, power, news, party lines.
SIDE B 01:30:38 -- 01:31:42
Discussion about snowstorms and the phone lines; snowstorms, deep snow, snow, 1948, phone lines.
SIDE B 01:31:42 -- 01:34:08
Discussion about the Prince Nova ferry, with mention of cars; Prince Nova, ferries, Capt. MacGuire, Neil MacKinnon, wages, cars.
SIDE B 01:34:08 -- 01:35:07
Discussion about salt herring as a cure for fever; salt herring, home remedies.
Tape ends at 01:35:07.
